Quick question on entering waypoints

[Diesel_Thunder]

Had a question about entering waypoints, and a search didn't turn up anything I was looking for. When can I start entering waypoints?

 

What brings this up is this isn't much of an issue for me as I let Jester handle it when I fly single. A friend of mine flies with me and I ride backseat. I'm new to doing the RIO stuff, and have a decent grasp on what I'm doing (CV/shore alignments, entering waypoints, etc). What I have not seen in the manual, is what point I can start punching in our mission waypoints.

 

When doing a fine align (no stored heading), which is roughly 8 minutes, I have some idle time while waiting for that task to finish. During the time I'm waiting for the nav alignment, can I enter in the waypoints, or will that interfere with the alignment?

[Callsign JoNay]

You can begin entering them right away AFAIK. I haven't had problems doing it that way, and Jester does the same.

 

I've had problems entering the navgrind YY during alignment, but it's possible I had something hooked that I wasn't supposed to. Mistakes are easy to make in the back seat.

[Diesel_Thunder]

I was able to enter them during the alignment, seems to work just fine and does not interfere with the alignment process.

 

Thanks @Callsign JoNay!