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Originally Posted by Sailmonkey
I don’t see why you couldn’t use any variety of the N2K to 0183 translators to feed any data into the course computer. Especially if the unit has previously accepted 0183 wind sentences.
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Many reasons, one of them could be that the old
autopilot doesn't process the standard wind data sentences but only some proprietary crap. That's so popular with those nautical electronic geniuses. Another could be that the autopilot doesn't process
NMEA input at all.
You'd be lucky to find in the old manual the
NMEA sentences the autopilot understands, then you can start looking whether they contain wind-data in any way
current devices are producing.
NB: A quick search on the
internet indicates that this isn't a trivial problem.