Courses Handbook 2007 - [ Archived ]

10586 (v.2) Navigation and Aircraft Performance 182

Area:

 Department of Spatial Sciences

Credits:

 25.0

Contact Hours:

 5.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

 1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

 1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
 

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.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

 019900 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

Availability
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