Navigation
Navigation in essence is any process of controlling a craft or vehicle to make it from point A to point B. The word 'Navigate' originally comes from the Sanskrit word 'navigath,' mean to move or direct.
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Navigation function - An autopilot function that allows you to track the route programmed in the FMS/RNAV or navigation receiver, such as a VOR radial.
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Irv Lee offers confidence for those who find navigation an uncertain business.
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Navigation aid: A device or process to help with navigation, such as a VOR station or a position update.
Navigation
This one cannot be said enough: Get current VFR charts for the area. If you insist on having and using a GPS system, keep that one updated too! Prepare a good navigation log for your trip and keep it updated as your flight progresses.
Area Navigation (RNAV) is a method of air navigation that allows an aircraft to choose any course within a network of navigation beacons, rather than navigating directly to and from the beacons.
Inertial Navigation System: An Inertial Navigation System (INS) is a self-contained navigation system.
navigational fix - A geographical position determined by visual reference to the surface, by reference to one or more radio NAVAIDS, by celestial plotting or by another navigational device.
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Maps & Airport/Facility Directories
Pilots use maps or charts to help them navigate while they fly. These maps show all the features of the airspace through which the pilot will fly.
Navigation lights - lights on the aircraft consisting of a red light on the left wing, a green light on the right wing, and a white light on the tail. FARs require that these lights be displayed in flight during the hours of darkness.
Navigational fix - A geographical position determined by reference to one or more radio navigational aids.
Navigation Light: A light on an aeroplane to reveal its presence and direction of motion at night.
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AIR NAVIGATION FACILITY (NAVAID) - A facility designed for use as an aid to air navigation, including landing aids, lights, any apparatus or equipment for disseminating weather information; ...
Air Navigation Facility (NAVAID): Any facility used or designed for use as an aid to air navigation.
Navigation by Landmarks.-In all cases of cross-country flying the pilot will have two independent systems of maintaining his proper directions: first, the computed compass bearing; second, the use of landmarks whose position is known.
NAVIGATIONAL AID- Any visual or electronic device airborne or on the surface which provides point-to-point guidance information or position data to aircraft in flight.
(See AIR NAVIGATION FACILITY.)
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Navigation Light Identifying lights on an aircraft can be used to identify the presence of an aircraft and its direction of movement, especially at night.
Navigation - The process by which a pilot finds his way from point A to point B while actually trying to get to point C.
Occupied - An airline term for lavatory.
Navigation systems in common use for cross-country flying include:
GPS = Global Positioning System. It uses a system of satellites transmitting on approximately 1.5 gigahertz.
DME = Distance-Measuring Equipment.
Navigation
NAVAID
Navigational Aid. Any visual or electronic device, airborne or on the surface, which provides point-to-point guidance information or position data to aircraft in flight.
AIR NAVIGATION FACILITY- Any facility used in, available for use in, or designed for use in, aid of air navigation, including landing areas, lights, any apparatus or equipment for disseminating weather information, for signaling, ...
CLASS I NAVIGATION Operation of aircraft under VFR in visual meteorological conditions primarily based on 'see and avoid' procedures for all obstacles along the flight route as well as other aircraft.
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Inertial Navigation System
interrupter gear
A device that interrupts the firing of a rigidly mounted machine gun to prevent it firing as the aircraft's propeller blade passes in front of the gun barrel ...
Navaid - Navigational Aid
NDB - Non Directional Beacon
No Joy - No communications established
NORDO - No Radio
NOSIG - No significant weather
NOTAM - Notice to Airmen ...
NAVAIDs (Navigational Aids) − Any facility used by an aircraft for navigation.
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Navigation by visual reference to landmarks
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Supplementary navigation
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FAN MARKER SEE RADIO NAVIGATION
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INS - Inertial navigation system, in which highly sensitive accelerometers record, via a computer, the complex accelerations of an aircraft about its three axes, ...
A map used in air navigation containing all or part of the following: topographic features, hazards and obstructions, navigation aids, navigation routes, designated airspace, and airports.
Navigation, Instruments, and Avionics ADF Automatic Direction Finder - an instrument in an airplane which displays the relative bearing to an NDB (see below) -- it essentially "points at the NDB" AI Attitude Indicator (also known as AH - Artificial ...
TACAN: Tactical Air Navigation system. An ultra-high frequency electronic navigation aid which provides suitably-equipped aircraft with a continuous indication of bearing and distance to the selected Tacan station.
TACAN - TACtical Aid to Navigation - a ground based military UHF navigation aid
Take - Common term for the results of photo recon, Elint or Sigint missions
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During flight, pilots normally follow designated airways, or highways in the sky, that are marked on flight maps and are defined by their relationship to radio navigation beacons, whose signals are picked up by the aircraft.
More accurately, the G1000 integrates a variety of navigation, communication and traffic/weather/terrain advisory equipment into a pair of 10.4-inch, active-matrix LGA displays.
Far too little thought was given to the practicalities of navigation, equipment and bomb-aiming, or to the possibilities of air defence.
George Cayley's gliding bird from "On Aerial Navigation," 1809.
After having built several models (with an interruption to explore the possibility of an Aerial Carriage of 1843), Cayley concentrated on experiments with full‑size gliders.
ILS (Instrument Landing System) A radio navigation system that provides precision instrument approaches. The ILS has two main parts, a localizer and a glideslope.
GPS (Global Positioning System) — Satellite-based navigation system operated by Department of Defense, providing extremely accurate position, time, and speed information to civilian and military users.
A navigation system used to permit very precise landings in poor visibility.
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EGI- Embedded GPS/Inertial Navigation
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ERO- Engine Running Onload/Offload - leave the props spinning, open the doors and unload/load the cargo and pax.
The aerodrome meteorological offices at which flight documentation is required, as well as the areas to be covered, shall be determined by regional air navigation agreement. users; ...
These are ground-based radio navigational aids scattered around the country. Lines between them, called Victor airways, are the primary instrument flight paths throughout the country.
The pilot will usually navigate by using electronic navigation equipment, compass headings assigned by Air Traffic Control, or in some cases compass bearings corrected for forecast winds.
Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager complete the first non-stop circumnavigation of the world without any refuelling in the Rutan Voyager. A distance of 24987 miles in 9 days 3 minutes and 44 seconds.
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Track is where the aircraft is going. Bearing is the direction to or from a feature or navigation aid.
Bearing can also be expressed relative to the nose of the aircraft via the clock code or as a number of degrees.
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A team of Air Force personnel organized, equipped, and trained to establish and operate navigational or terminal guidance aids, communications, and aircraft control facilities within the objective area of an airborne operation.
The elevator control of the L59 with the instruments for altitude navigation is shown at Fig. 321. Control is by a large wheel similar to the steering wheel of a ship. Directional control is by a similar wheel at another part of the control car.
ATC systems work to separate aircraft to prevent collisions, to organize traffic flow, and to provide information and other support for pilots, such as for weather and navigation.
While night raids provided a measure of protection from interceptors and anti-aircraft fire, they greatly complicated navigation and landing. Many damaged aircraft limped back to their airfields, only to be lost in landing accidents.
Most midair collision accidents and reported near midair collision incidents occur in good VFR weather conditions and during the hours of daylight. Most of these accident/incidents occur within 5 miles of an airport and/or near navigation aids.
Optional electrical accessories include the navigation lights, anticollision strobe lights, and instrument panel lighting and cabin courtesy lights.
The ammeter in the alternator system displays in amperes the load placed on the alternator.
CNS - Communications, navigation and surveillance.
Coherent detection - A technique used in certain ADF receivers to improve useful range.
Collins - Avionics mfgr.
COM - Communications.
VOR - Radio navigation aid, named after the VORtex effect of pilots trying to home in on it.
Windsocks - Socks that need darning.
Yankee - Any pilot that asks Houston tower to "Say again".
 See also: Aircraft, Flight, Aviation, Landing, Power
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