10583 (v.3) Flight Planning and Navigational Aids 281


Area: Department of Spatial Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
 
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Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 10586 (v.2) Navigation and Aircraft Performance 182
 
Syllabus: Flight planning and navigational logs. Natural/radio position lines. Navigation during climbs/descent/turns. Solution of turn problems. Advanced point of no return, critical point, safe diversion. Navigation and flight planning problems for turbo-jet aircraft. Advanced air navigation instruments, radio aids, inertial reference systems. Principles of GPS positioning. Conversion between geographic, cartesian and plane coordinate systems. Datum shift versus seven parameter transformation of Cartesian coordinates. Elementary radar, air traffic control systems.
 
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Field of Education: 19900 Other Natural and Physical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
Funding Cluster: 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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