Donald Clausing

The Aviator's Guide to Navigation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Technology has greatly changed, and aviation practices have changed tremendously: some systems have disappeared, some are less important, and key technologies have emerged. Suitable for the advanced student pilot, this work explains the many systems of air navigation, from the basics of dead reckoning to the advanced "glass cockpit" EFIS systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
• 4 ed
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 187mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780071477208
• ISBN-10: 0071477209
• Artikelnr.: 20928300

Autorenporträt

Donald J. Clausing (San Francisco, CA) is a contributing writer for many aviation magazines, including Flying, Professional Pilot, AOPA Pilot, and Plane and Pilot. He is the author of three previous editions of the Aviator's Guide to Navigation.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Pilotage and Dead Reckoning
Chapter 2. VOR Navigation Fundamentals
Chapter 3. Distance Measuring Equipment
Chapter 4. VOR/DME Navigation
Chapter 5. VOR/DME Area Navigation
Chapter 6. NDB Navigation
Chapter 7. Ground-Based Radar Navigation
Chapter 8. Instrument Approaches
Chapter 9. Principles of Global Navigation
Chapter 10. Loran-C Navigation
Chapter 11. Inertial Navigation Systems
Chapter 12. Satellite Navigation
Chapter 13. Long-Range and Overwater Navigation
Chapter 14. Nonradar Navigation
Chapter 15. Flight Management Systems
Chapter 16. The Next Generation Air Navigation System
APPENDIX A: DOCUMENT SOURCES
APPENDIX B: AERONAUTICAL CHART SOURCES
APPENDIX C: ABBREVIATIONS
GLOSSARY
INDEX