"on course" constant alerts

I took a picture of my watch saying off course right next to the trail marker. It was driving me crazy. My husband’s instinct with lower frills maps stayed the course the entire time and we downloaded the same course 

Replying to bump this thread.  This has pissed me off since I bought my Fenix 5 years and years ago.  

The problem is that when I use super-conservative battery settings for an ultrarun, I use GPS only, which results in poorer GPS estimations.  Fine, I can live with that.  But it screws up navigation and now I'm getting Haptic feedback for "on course" every twenty seconds which just drains the battery in addition to being annoying.  I now start and stop courses in the middle of races only when I need to check for directions.  If I could just turn off the alert, all would be good.

Garmin: please let me turn off this alert!!!

I think this issue has been partly addressed in the current firmware version 13.22. I am not sure if the "on course" alert itself has been fixed, but at least it seems Garmin has significantly increased threshold for the "off course" condition, so I have to be quite a distance for from the course for the off-course alert to come up. It seems to stay on course quite reliably.

It definitely isn't solved for me.  I'm running 14.30 (on an Epix, but same issue).  If I have multi-sat on, yes, the problem is generally resolved.  But when I use GPS only to conserve battery life, I absolutely get the alerts enough that I necro-posted on this thread.

Hi silentvoyager. Yes, they half-fixed the issue with the firmware version 13,22. Before that, I was receiving hundreds of alerts per route (both, off course and on course). Now, with the firmware version 13.22 I receive hundreds of alerts per route (ONLY on course alerts).

Happens more often when I use GPS only

I subscribe what Kevin says: "Garmin, please let us turn off this alert!!!"

This is the most annoying thing on my Garmin, and I am thinking even changing to another brand.

Perhaps the reason I no longer see these alerts is because I usually use All Systems + Multi-band satellite mode even for long running events (like a 14+ hour 50 miler last weekend).

But I agree that Garmin should make these alerts configurable.

Also, I find it curious that there are on course alerts without the corresponding off course alerts. That would point at the algorithm issue. Perhaps the thresholds for off course and on course alerts are now different.

I'm slow.  My PW (Personal Worst) for a 100 miler was 36 hours, 15 minutes.  So... yea, look to conserve battery life.

Hello,
I agree that there has always been issues with navigation. I regularly  use fit files to navigate (generated with Plotaroute) and GPS triggering off-track alert also messes things up - not only altitude profile but estimated time ahead/behind scheduled pace. And I'm not talking if you have a route with sections that you run twice... Which can happen on a race.

There should be an option to "lock" the GPS position on the track, at least for navigation algorithms. Other manufacturers (Polar, if I remember well) have that on their high end models. The problem is indeed that if you really go off-track, the watch won't notice you... But it's the price to pay I guess.

Has this been fixed yet?  I was on a hike today. It was an out and back. Everything was fine going in but on the way back out i kept getting notified that I was “on course.”