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Welcome to CAPipedia Sandbox

CAPipedia Sandbox's purpose is to benefit members by acting as an encyclopedia and index to Civil Air Patrol's technologies and everything else. It is and will always continue to be a work in progress.

To add or edit pages, you will need to log in with your Civil Air Patrol eServices account. Please note: if your first and/or last name changes in eServices after your first login to CAPipedia Sandbox, please submit a Contact Form with your old and new name and CAPID number before attempting to log in. Failure to have the username changed by an administrator will result in a new user account being created during login.

If you have any issues, please submit a Contact Form.

Active Projects / Help Needed

Reviewing migrated content from the CAP Knowledgebase. See the discussion page for CAP Knowledgebase cleanup for more information.
Adding best practices content to pages in the functional areas category.
Adding descriptions and external links to specialty track pages.

Quick Links

Getting Started

Latest Updates

Migrated FAQs from the CAP Knowledgebase
Created specialty track and functional area info pages
Added {{Pub}} and {{Form}} templates to hyperlink to the correct page where the pub/form is listed

How to Use CAPipedia Sandbox

The search box in the upper right hand corner is your avenue to finding information. Use keywords to search. If too many options come back, then you can add more search words. All the pages that match have a link to click on.

TIPS Avoid short and common words This is the most likely cause of an unexpected failed search. If your search terms include a common "stop word" (such as "the", "one", "your", "more", "right", "while", "when", "who", "which", "such", "every", "about", "onto"), then your search will fail without any results. Short numbers, and words that appear in half of all pages, will also not be found. In this case, drop those words and rerun the search. Search is case-insensitive The searches for "fortran", "Fortran" and "FORTRAN" all return the same results.

Search Examples: How do I change my password? You want to type change password in the search box.

See a list of all pages in the Wiki

The search results are always listed below an option to create a page. Don't create a page unless the results you are looking for is not found.

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