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The Flight Navigator Handbook
Contributor(s): Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) (Author)
ISBN: 162636236X     ISBN-13: 9781626362369
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $22.46  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: December 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Transportation - Aviation
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Reference
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation - General
Dewey: 629.132
LCCN: 2013016468
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 8.5" W x 11" (2.55 lbs) 282 pages
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
The Flight Navigator Handbook provides information on all phases of air navigation and is a source of reference for everyone in the field, from navigators to navigator students.

This handbook explains how to measure, chart the earth, and use flight instruments to solve basic navigation problems. It also contains data pertaining to flight publications, preflight planning, in-flight procedures, and low altitude navigation.
Specific topics covered throughout the pages of this informational and helpful guide include:

  • Reading maps, charts, and grids
  • Dead reckoning
  • Radio aid fixing and radio navigation
  • Celestial concepts and special celestial techniques
  • Computing altitude
  • Pressure pattern navigation
  • And much more
Additional information can also be found in the four included and up-to-date appendixes. This includes a listing of references and supporting information used in this publication; mathematical formulas to use as an aid in preflight and in-flight computations; chart and navigation symbols; and a Celestial Computation Sheet.