can I display speed while navigating a course

Dadhad_1 said:

I would like to be able to see my speed while navigating a course.  Can I do it?  If so, how?

Yes, and much more. Perhaps you are new to garmins & the 530 so rather than a lengthy explanation it might be better if you have a look at these two short videos from VeloGPS and they will (should) answer your questions

First includes how to add a speed data field to the map screen, watch it all but the specific bit starts at 6m00s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CGyNait7NU

And this is how it looks in a navigation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi9abV7-S3c

Hi L. Rouge.  I appreciate your response.  I spent over an hour looking at videos, reading internet posts, and "pushing logical buttons" on the device and figured this out myself.  Interestingly one of your videos is one I watched but didn't get as far as the 6 minute mark.

Yes, there are 2 ways of doing it.

1. Just display normal data screens (with speed as one of the fields), and scroll to the map screen when you want to do a nav check. The course navigation will continue in the background, and you can set the navigation screen to pop up automatically as you approach turns. This is what I do personally.

2. If you prefer to have the map screen on all the time, the map page can display 2 datafields, and you can select speed as one of those.

There is Connect IQ app that allows you to have multiple fields (i.e. more than 2) on the maps page. It's called MapDashboard, see here:

https://youtu.be/HCb7OFJqUj8