Light Airplane Navigation Essentials

Name: Light Airplane Navigation Essentials
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ISBN: 9780070134546

ISBN-10: 0070134545

ISBN-13: 9780070134546

Edition: N/A

Authors: Paul A. Craig

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"If you need a practical - and basic - introduction to navigation, Light Airplane Navigation Essentials is for you. This book is designed for new small aircraft pilots and students just entering flight training who want a guide that will clearly teach the fundamentals they need." "Light Airplane Navigation Essentials takes the mysteries out of navigation and clarifies techniques and technologies, such as pilotage and deal reckoning ... course plotting ... radio navigation ... VOR, Loran, and GPS ... airspace rules ... even the glass cockpit." "Paul Craig has taught a very successful navigation course for several years, and knows exactly what the new pilot needs to learn. He explains the…

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List price: $34.95
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The flat Earth and Eratosthenes	p. 1
Sectional charts and symbols	p. 9
Latitude and longitude	p. 17
The navigation plotter	p. 23
True course and true heading: the computer wind face	p. 29
Variation and deviation to compass heading	p. 39
Airplane speeds - IAS to CAS to TAS to GS	p. 45
The navigation record. Time/speed/distance, fuel consumption	p. 53
Aircraft climb performance and fuel reserves	p. 67
Which altitude should be flown?	p. 73
The complete Navigation Record	p. 79
The VFR Flight Plan	p. 91
Navigation Record in-flight and the Missing Wind Problem	p. 99
Weather briefings and in-flight weather information	p. 107
VOR Introduction	p. 119
VOR indications and positions	p. 127
VOR receiver checks and DME	p. 135
VOR and lost procedures	p. 143
NDB introduction	p. 149
ADF indications and positions	p. 157
LORAN and GPS	p. 159
Navigation in the glass cockpit	p. 179
Airspace rules and collision avoidance	p. 193
The airspace boundaries and Class E airspace	p. 203
Special VFR and FSS communications	p. 209
Class D, Class C, Class B, and Class A airspace	p. 213
The "vertical" airspace diagram	p. 219
Special use airspace	p. 231
Glossary	p. 235
Index	p. 243
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