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Text Box: for redoing voyages where you have stored selected start and destination waypoints in Force9’s waypoint database. Using Force9 in the main simulation screen: In the main simulation screen of Virtual Passage you can use Force9 to track your voyage. In fact following the progress in Force9 is like being on a boat with a GPS receiver and an onboard navigation system. If you don’t already have Force9 open from the Start position screen, you may launch Force9 from the toolbar of the main screen. Reposition and resize Force9 until it is in the lower right part of the screen. In Force9 under the view menu select auto scrolling (see F9 Screen 3). You will see an arrow indicating the boats position on the Force9 chart. If a waypoint is selected, Force9 indicates whether you are making progress toward the waypoint by showing the arrow green. If you are not making progress directly toward the waypoint it shows red. It also shows the direction to the waypoint. If you want to use the Force9 chart as your primary background chart and don’t want to be bothered with Virtual Passage or Force9 covering up each other as you use either window you can resize the Virtual Passage screen. Do this by going to the bottom of the Virtual Passage screen and dragging the bottom of the screen up. You will see it role up. Take it up as high as you like usually near the bottom of the weather map box. (see F9 Screen4) You may select a new waypoint at any time on Force9 by positioning the cursor at the position on the chart where you want the waypoint then right click. You will see the waypoint change also in Virtual Passage. 5. ADDITIONAL FEATURES Tropical Cyclone Tracks - Atlantic and Western Longitude Pacific tropical cyclones and hurricanes for the year are included in the data base. Note Indian Ocean and Eastern Pacific storms are not included. A tropical cyclone symbol is denoted on the base map as well as the name of the storm. For example on August 25, 1993 there were two Atlantic storms named Emily and Dennis and two Pacific storms named Greg and Hillary. Winds from these storms are included based on observed central pressures and winds using a special grid scale empirical model for the sub 2.5 degree winds. This empirical model assumes a symmetrical storm and may not reflect the actual distribution of winds.