CAE Oxford Aviation Academy. JAA PPL Ground training series - Book 3: Navigation/Flight planning/Radio aids

JAA PPL Ground training series. CAE Oxford Aviation Academy, 2014.— 422 p.
Курс теоретической подготовки к экзаменам для получения лицензии JAA/EASA PPL. На английском языке.Nowadays, most light aircraft, even if entirely club-owned, are fitted with a radionavigation suite which, forty years ago, would have been the envy of commercial airliners. So, today, VOR, ADF, DME, and ILS radio-navigation systems are fitted to most light aircraft. More recently, these systems have been complemented by Global Navigation Satellite Systems which greatly simplify the pilot’s task of finding his way in the air.Nevertheless, it is still not possible, nor would it be desirable, to gain a private pilot’s licence (PPL) without demonstrating adequate knowledge and skill in both the theory and practice of dead-reckoning visual navigation techniques. Consequently, deadreckoning navigation techniques make up the greater part of the subject of navigation as it is taught and tested for the award of the private pilot’s licence all over the world.One of the primary aims of this book is to teach students mental dead-reckoning visual navigation techniques which will enable them to become competent pilotnavigators and, thus, help prepare them for the practical navigation skills test of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) PPL (A). A further main objective of this book is that students should learn all the theory they need to prepare for the EASA PPL (A).GENERAL NAVIGATION
CHAPTER 1: FORM OF THE EARTH
CHAPTER 2: TIME
CHAPTER 3: DIRECTION
CHAPTER 4: SPEED, DISTANCE AND TIME
CHAPTER 5: AERONAUTICAL CHARTS AND CHART-MAKING
CHAPTER 6: FEATURES ON AERONAUTICAL CHARTS
CHAPTER 7: MEASURING TRACK ANGLE AND TRACK DISTANCE
CHAPTER 8: MAP READING
CHAPTER 9: PRINCIPLES OF DEAD RECKONING AIR NAVIGATION
CHAPTER 10: ALTIMETER SETTINGS
CHAPTER 11: THE NAVIGATION COMPUTER
CHAPTER 12: FLIGHT PLANNING
CHAPTER 13: PRACTICAL NAVIGATION
CHAPTER 14: THE LOST PROCEDURERADIO NAVIGATION
CHAPTER 15: VHF DIRECTION FINDING (VDF)
CHAPTER 16: AUTOMATIC DIRECTION FINDING (ADF)
CHAPTER 17: VHF OMNI-DIRECTIONAL RANGE (VOR)
CHAPTER 18: DISTANCE MEASURING EQUIPMENT (DME)
CHAPTER 19: GROUND RADAR
CHAPTER 20: SECONDARY SURVEILLANCE RADAR (SSR)
CHAPTER 21: GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS)ANNEX A: THE FLIGHT INFORMATION SERVICE (FIS)
APPENDIX 1: PRACTICAL NAVIGATION TEST ROUTE
APPENDIX 2: SOLUTIONS FOR QUESTIONS ON PRACTICAL NAVIGATION
APPENDIX 3: AERODROME PLANS
NAVIGATION AND RADIO AIDS SYLLABUS
ANSWERS TO NAVIGATION AND RADIO AIDS QUESTIONS