@Brad_Olwin said in What I love from S9B and not so much after an A3P:

somewhat solved

I prefer control of my own route direction, so automatic detection and its interesting foibles amid forested switchbacks (experienced) isn’t an improvement for me, though I can absolutely see others preferring it.

My point is that you can pick the waypoint to which you want to return from a watch menu on the A3P and see the distance and bearing. Skirting something (usually) or other improvisation (often) describes an arc for which radial navigation is well-suited. The rest of the user’s attention can be devoted to not sinking into a bog or sliding down a landslip or whatever. It might not be the very best for speed but that’s at the user end of responsibility.

S9 gives me the route shape and the scale and, as you pointed out, no distance to any WP. With the (alternative) Bearing Nav, that’s more than a couple of button presses to invoke the GoTo and, unless within eyeshot, it’s map time.

The (my) problem isn’t the automatic rejoining or reversing of a route … it’s relocating the thing at an optimal, or at least predictable, point. For ease of use in that regard, A3P offers only a couple of button presses.

Fine (and not actually an answer to my use case) to have bailout routes but, of course, that’s a phone app, not watch capability (unless the S9 can pull that route from the phone via its own menu system). For which you need phone time.

As ever, I’m not saying one system should exist in isolation. Neither is a substitute for the other.

Ambit3 run