Worldwide Soaring Turnpoint Exchange

Turnpoints


This is the place to start, if you are unfamiliar with the Turnpoint Exchange, or this particular site.

The turnpoint name, and coordinates - in degree, minutes, and seconds as well as degrees and decimal minutes - are provided, as well as telling you whether the turnpoint is collocated with an airport, is the start or finish gate, and, depending on the amount of information provided by the contributor, considerable additional information: field elevation, ICAO identifier, turnpoint description, photo target description, distance and bearing from the home field, etc.

As the layout is a bit large for printing from your browser, you may download the "PDF" file, indicated by , which is already formatted for printing sideways [ "landscape mode" ] on 8 ½ × 11 or A4 paper. If you haven't already, you will need to download the Adobe Acrobat® PDF viewer [ for Windows, Macintosh, DOS, Unix ] which is free.
This link provides the program, and everything you need to get it going on your computer and linked into your browser. More and more WWW services are using this standard, and sooner or later you'll want to have it available. It is typically much smaller (quicker to download) than the "HTML" version.


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