User`s guide

Chapter 2. Getting Started

Displaying a flight

In the lower left pane of the Cambridge-Aero Explorer, click on the + sign next to the

folder named Flights and then click on the + sign next to the folder named Demo. Click

and drag any flight icon in this folder to the right hand display pane. The top flight in the

Demo folder was completed on April 29, 2000 at Caesar Creek Soaring Club. If you

display this flight, you can see it includes the navigation points as well as the declared

task recorded in the GPS for the day this pilot completed this flight. Note that as soon as

the flight appears, the Barograph pane appears above the flight. The top bar of the

Barograph pane displays time, GPS and pressure altitude, speed, climb or sink rate,

engine noise level and the GPS fix respectively. The vertical blue line in the barograph

trace represents the current GPS fix in the Plot pane below. Clicking and dragging this

line anywhere in the barograph trace also moves the corresponding flight trace below.

In the upper-right hand corner of the display pane, click the X button to close this

window (the lower of the two X buttons). Now click and drag the flight icon named May

by Al Ormsbee in the Demo folder onto the display pane. Next click and drag the

flight icon by John Murray onto the flight by Al Ormsbee. This overlays the Murray

flight together with the Ormsbee flight. This displays the two flight traces together for

comparison. Close this window by clicking the X button in the upper-right hand corner of

the display pane.

You can perform operations using right-clicking as well. Right-click the Demo flight icon

for John Murray and choose Display. The flight appears in the right hand pane. Right-

click the flight icon for Al Ormsbee flight for the same day and choose Display. This

time the flights appear in two separate windows. Choose Tile from the Window menu to

see both flights.

Close both flight windows.

Analyzing a flight

Display the one of the flights in the Demo folder from May 23

, 1995. Simply moving

the mouse pointer over the trace of the flight makes a small circle cursor visible on the

flight path. As this small circle moves over the flight trace, the barograph cursor also

moves and displays data for the corresponding point on the flight trace. Right-click any

point on the flight trace in the Plot pane and select Measure from the menu. The cursor