User`s guide

Cambridge Aero Explorer User’s Guide
The Recorder Menu
Connect - Attempt to connect the Cambridge Aero Explorer to a data recorder
on the serial port.
Properties - Communicate with the recorder and display a screen with essential
glider and GPS-Nav data.
Log Manager - Display a window that facilitates transferring flight logs to
Cambridge Aero Explorer.
Actions menu
Display - Graphically display the selected file in the Plot pane.
Overlay - Display the selected file with the contents of the Plot pane.
Edit - Edit the selected file contents.
Transfer to PC - Move the selected log or navpoints from the recorder to the
PC.
Transfer to Recorder - Move a selected file to the data recorder.
Verify Flight Log Security - Check the digital signature of an .IGC file to
verify the log is secure.
Analyze Flight - Analyze a flight trace in the Plot pane for speed, time and
other parameters.
Email Flight - Call up Microsoft Outlook Express or any other MAIP-
compliant email program and attach the flight to an outgoing email message.
Tasks menu
Define and Transfer - Define a task in the Task Definition window and then
transfer the task to a connected data recorder.
Define and Overlay - Define a task in the Task Display window and then
display the task graphically in the Plot pane.
Tools menu
Covert Log to IGC format - Change the selected .CAI file to an .IGC format
file.
Options - Display a window with four panes:
?? The General tab sets the communications port for connection to a data
recorder, and contains check boxes to tell Cambridge Aero Explorer to
connect to a recorder and check for a flash card on startup. Display units
can be selected from a drop down.
?? Navpoint Display contains four settings to define how Cambridge Aero
Explorer displays navpoint lists with a flight log.
?? Time Conversion defines how time is converted from GMT time to local
time for a flight log.
?? File locations set the default pathways for workspace folders in the PC
pane.
?? Display Options calls up a window with various display settings. See the
flight display section for a full description of each option.
Window menu
Cascade - Shrink the Display pane windows and stack them so that the title bar
of each is visible.
Tile - Arrange each open window so they are all displayed in the Display pane.