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10586 (v.2) Navigation and Aircraft Performance 182



 

Area:Department of Spatial Sciences
Contact Hours:5.0
Credits:25.0
Lecture:1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Significant figures and accuracies, mean, standard deviation, statistical reliability. Angles, bearings and trigonometric functions. Distance. Map projection and the plane. Plane triangle solutions. Basic air navigation instruments. Aircraft performance, takeoff/landing distances, enroute requirements, normal/abnormal/emergency situations. The regulatory environment. Basic flight planning and navigation of light aircraft. Basic point of no return, critical point. Circular slide rule. Programmable electronic calculators. Spreadsheet-based navigation solutions. Radio navigation principles applied to en-route navigation. Traverse computations and the Bowditch adjustment applied to air navigation. Areas of rectilinear figures. Simple circular curves. Solution of basic computations using coordinates. Missing elements. Line intersections.

 
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