Overview The Radar is most useful when you are getting close to the cache.  It centers around the geocache, and shows you your location relative to it.  This screen is used to try to home-in on the exact location of the cache.  Items on the Radar From the Radar screen you can see many things: The location of the cache is indicated by the circle in the middle of the radar. Your location is indicated by the arrow moving around on the screen Your heading is indicated by the direction the arrow points The uncertainty of your location is indicated by the brown circle that surrounds you (sometimes this is hard to see until you are zoomed in close) The scale is indicated by the discance printed between the inner and outter ring. The distance to the cache is printed in the header of the radar Where you've been recently is indicated by a series of points that trail behind you (sometimes this is hard to see untill you are zoomed in close)

Zooming

You cannot zoom in or out manually, the radar will do it for you.  The Radar will try to keep you in between the inner ring and the outer ring, zooming in or out to do it.  Once you get really close to the cache, it will let you cross into the inner circle, indicating that you are VERY close to the cache.  It is possible be right on top of the cache in the radar screen, but generally your uncertainty will be greater than the size of the red circle that indicates the location of the cache. 


Orientation

The Radar, like the map, always holds North at the top and South at the bottom.  In the screen shot in this tutorial, we can see that the cache is .72 miles North of where we are, and we are heading away from it.