
Cambridge Aero Explorer User’s Guide
Downloading navpoints from the Internet
Many pilots prefer to use lists of navpoints that have already been created for a favorite
soaring site. The most well known web site to download navpoints from is the
“Worldwide Soaring Turnpoint Exchange“ The following instructions are applicable to
that site only. To download a navpoint database from this site, follow these steps:
1. Start the Cambridge Aero Explorer. By default, you should see a folder called
“Navpoints” under the first workspace in the PC pane. Right click on the
“Navpoints” folder and select “Properties…” from the menu.
2. Look at the “Properties…” dialog and you will see and entry for “Folder Location”.
If you took the defaults during installation this will be:
“C:\Program Files\CAI\Navpoints”
Remember this location or better yet, write it down on a piece of paper.
3. Now start your web browser and open the following page:
http://acro.harvard.edu/SOARING/JL/TP/HomePage.html
4. Find your soaring site from the pages on this web site. They are organized by
continent, then country, then state. When you find the page for your site, scroll
down to the line:
Files formatted for downloading and importing into your programs.
Then click on the icon shown at the left.
5. From this page, scroll down until you see the entry
Cambridge Aero Instruments®
Right click on the leftmost icon , and select “Save Target As…” from the menu.
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