Syllabus: | 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. |
