Course detail
General Navigation
FSI-DLGAcad. year: 2022/2023
The subject reflects (EU) 1178/2011 General Navigation requirements for professional traffic pilots. It embodies principles of navigation, Solar system parameters, Earth´s magnetism, magnetic compasses, aeronautical charts, chart projections, dead reckoning, pressure navigation, and inertial navigation. Students will be acquainted with modern navigation methods, aeronautical charts, pilot computers as well as with flight planning and flight navigation procedures.
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.
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Aims
Students will be acquainted with basic air navigation problems and with the manners how to solve them in practice. All students should be ready to pass the corresponding ATPL(A) No. 061 test.
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
KULČÁK a kol.: Učebnice pilota vrtulníku II, CERM ISBN 978-80-7204-638-6, Brno 2009. (CS)
KULČÁK, L., STAVOVČÍK, B.: Obecná navigace, učební texty pro teoretickou přípravu dopravních pilotů dle předpisu JAR-FCL-1, CERM, s.r.o., Brno, 2008 (CS)
Recommended reading
KOLEKTIV AUTORŮ: Učebnice pilota, ISBN – 80 – 85280 – 89 – 2, Svět křídel, Cheb, 2003. (CS)
PŘIBYL,K., KEVICKÝ,D.: Letecká navigace, NADAS PRAHA, 1980. (CS)
VOSECKÝ, S. a kol.: Základy leteckých navigačních zařízení I a II, učebnice Univerzity obrany, Brno 1988. (CS)
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Syllabus
1. Introduction to air navigation – objectives, purposes, and tasks. Solar system. Earth and its models.
2. Time. Directions and angles. Distances.
3. Earth´s magnetism. Magnetic compasses with direct & indirect indication.
4. Maps and charts in air navigation (topografic charts, aeronautic charts of different purposes).
5. Earth´s surface projections – Mercator´s projections.
6. Earth´s surface projections - polar steographic projection. Lambert´s projection.
7. Gridded maps and their use.
8. Navigation Computations.
9.Pressure navigation.
10.Structure of the FMS.
11.Structures and function of the INS/IRS. 12. Air navigation methods (RNAV; RNP; PBN). 1 13.A reserve - consultation, exercise, preparation for a credit test.
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1. The Universe and Solar system. Time. Directions. Distances. Earth´s magnetism.
2. How to use the Earth magnetism for air navigation purposes. Aircraft magnetism.
3. Airborne magnetic compasses with direct and indirect indication.
4. Topographic charts in air navigation.
5. Mercator´s projections - properties of the charts.
6. Polar stereographic and gridded chart´s properties.
7. Lambert´s chart properties.
8. Exercise - air track computations.
9. Dead reckoning computations - the vector triangle.
10.Flight navigation - selected problems.
11.FMS - pre-flight preparation. INS/IRS - structures and operational properties. 12.RNAV, RNP, PBN - objectives and principal properties.
13.The course-unit test.