60CSX Suddenly in Metrics

[+CinciRiverRats]

My Garmin 60CSX is suddengly displaying distances in metrics.

 

I have gone to setup menu/units and have distance/speed set to Statute; Elevation set to feet; Depth set to feet. I've even restored defaults on the compass page... Still showing metrics instead of standard feet/miles. Any suggestions? Thanks

[reef mapper]

Time to join the rest of the world?

[+julianh]

Time to join the rest of the world?

I agree 100%!

 

The OP made the statement as if being in metric units was a bad thing!

[+Team CowboyPapa]

Somehow I thought that this was a forum where folks helped each other. I'd be glad too, as soon as I aquire a 60CSX.

Edited August 10, 2008 by Team CowboyPapa

[+apersson850]

We are helping, by cheering him up, now when the GPS has taken the sensible decision for him!

 

But apart from that, I don' know why it doesn't adhere to the setting you do? Try setting them to metric, then back to the oldfashioned units again, to see if it makes any difference?

[+CinciRiverRats]

Didn't mean that metrics was a bad thing.... however, when in the US do as the US does. When in Rome .... well you know.......

[+webscouter.]

What are your settings for the coordinate display? If I remember correctly UTM is in metric. If that is selected you would only see metric distances. But I could be wrong, I haven't used UTM in 25 years and I am too lazy to go upstairs and look at my gps.

[+Team CowboyPapa]

Didn't mean that metrics was a bad thing.... however, when in the US do as the US does. When in Rome .... well you know.......

You'll have to excuse the poor chap. Notice that he lives in Ohio, where the Wright Brothers (Orivlle and Wilbur) invented the airplane. Guess how the first flight was measured, feet or meters? What measurement system do you think that they used to design the airplane? Or, was it all a hoax and such accomplishments are not possible when one does not use the mks or cgs system?

Edited August 10, 2008 by Team CowboyPapa

[+ibycus]

Didn't mean that metrics was a bad thing.... however, when in the US do as the US does. When in Rome .... well you know.......

You'll have to excuse the poor chap. Notice that he lives in Ohio, where the Wright Brothers (Orivlle and Wilbur) invented the airplane. Guess how the first flight was measured, feet or meters? What measurement system do you think that they used to design the airplane? Or, was it all a hoax and such accomplishments are not possible when one does not use the mks or cgs system?

 

Relax, try to take it in the spirit with which it was intended. People are just poking a little fun. (there's a reason the most of the rest of the world uses metric, and its got nothing to do with who invented the airplane, or where it was invented).

 

To the OP, when happens if you set it to imperial, and then back again to metric? Have you tried a hard reset? (sounds like something hiccuped somewhere).

[reef mapper]

What are your settings for the coordinate display? If I remember correctly UTM is in metric. If that is selected you would only see metric distances. But I could be wrong, I haven't used UTM in 25 years and I am too lazy to go upstairs and look at my gps.

 

They are independent. A user TM or UTM in m can be used with all other settings in feet, Fahrenheit and fathoms etc. Hard reset does sound like the thing to try.

Edited August 11, 2008 by reef mapper