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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.
 
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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

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