Like the rest of the Panoptix Forward line, it delivers LiveVu Forward and RealVu 3D Forward views, showing structure, bait and fish in real time up to roughly 300ft ahead of and beneath the boat - a genuine advantage over a down-only sonar for spotting what's coming up before running over it, useful when approaching reefs, wrecks, drop-offs or unfamiliar water. Being a permanent thru-hull installation, it requires a proper hull penetration with the correct fairing block for the boat's deadrise angle, making it a decision typically made at boat-build or major refit time rather than a simple aftermarket bolt-on the way a transom-mount unit is. As with Garmin's other thru-hull Panoptix transducers, it includes built-in AHRS stabilisation to keep the live sonar picture steady as the boat pitches and rolls, and it requires the GLS 10 sonar black box to operate.