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Navigation
Topic Description
This topic is a refresher of the principles of air navigation. It reviews the concept of Operational Service Volume (OSV), the benefit of combining pilotage and dead reckoning as an efficient way to determine position and maintain a planned route, and the use of navigational aids to support effective decision-making during navigation.
4 lessons
- Navigation classification
- Navigation techniques
- Navigational aids - part 1
- Navigational aids - part 2
Topic Outline
- Historical overview of Class I and Class II navigation
- Operational Service Volume (OSV)
- Pilotage
- Dead reckoning
- Ground-based navigational aids (VOR, ILS, VLF, DME, NDB, TACAN, VORTAC)
- Satellite navigation systems (GPS, WAAS)
- Self-contained navigation systems (IRUs, INS, AHRS, MDI, Doppler radar)
- Standard Service Volume (SSV)