User`s guide

Chapter 4. Flight Display

Introduction

Your Cambridge GPS-NAV or similar product records data as you fly and saves a series

of GPS location fixes in a flight log. Cambridge Aero Explorer allows you to view these

flights on your computer. Some features available when displaying your flights are:

?? You can use the mouse, mouse wheel or keyboard to control the display of your

flight trace.

?? The program displays the flight in 3 dimensions. You can use the mouse to look at

the display from different angles and elevations.

?? You can overlay your flight trace on images of maps to see where you flew relative

to ground features.

?? You can overlay additional flights, navpoints or airspaces by clicking and dragging

them onto a current flight, navpoint, or airspace display.

?? You can play back your flight to watch how you flew around the course.

?? You can change the display options such as the colors of the screen background,

flight path, and task.

?? You can “lock” the display on a pilot and have the screen automatically scroll to

keep him in view. This gives a “Moving Map” effect and is especially useful for long

flights along a mountain ridge.

?? You can display files with several different formats. Once displayed, the same

display controls are used to control the display regardless of the origin. The

following file formats are supported: flight logs stored in the International Gliding

Council’s format. (.IGC format); flight logs stored in Cambridge’s proprietary flight

log format (CAI format); Cambridge Aero Navpoint files or (.DAT files); and

Special Use Airspace files in the “Tim Newport-Peace's Special Use Airspace

Format”.

Display Options

You have control over the appearance of the display. From the Tools menu, choose

Display Options. You can also right-click inside a plot and choose Properties.

From this dialog you can change the following:

?? Colors - To change the color of part of the display, select the part you wish to

change, and then click Change to select a new color. The current color for the

selected part appears to the right of the part name.