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This well regarded series for students taking the commercial and airline transport pilot licences has been substantially revised to bring it into line with the new European Joint Aviation Requirements (JARs) for flight crew licensing. Each volume deals with the material required by one of the new JAR papers.This volume covers the General Navigation paper with the exception of the principles, construction and errors of compasses which are dealt with in the new Instruments volume. Compared with the Navigation section of the old Volume 3 (Navigation General and Instruments) there is much new material, including navigation plotting procedures, the use of navigation computers and a very detailed survey of all charts encountered by modern professional and amateur pilots.The opportunity has been taken to simplify the presentation of information so as to aid revision work. Many test questions and answers have been included, based on the JAR syllabus.ContentsMathematics reminders; Form of the earth & linear distances and examples; Convergency, conversion angle,departure and examples; Directions; Magnetism. General & Terrestrial and examples; Map projections in general and examples; The standard mercator projection and examples; Transverse and oblique mercators and examples; Lambert`s conformal conic projection and examples; Polar sterographic projection and examples; Using aeronautical charts; The velocity triangle; The navigational circular slide rule and examples; The navigational computer;Temperatures, airspeeds and altitudes;DR navigation; Maximum range, radius of action and point of no return; Point of equal or critical point and examples; Visual navigation; Navigation on climbs and descents;Navigation in the cruise. Use of fixes;Practical plotting and the flight log and examples; The flight management system (FMS);Inertial navigation systems and examples;The solar system and time and examples; Phenomena and examples. THE AUTHORRoy Quantick FRAeS, FRMetS was a former RAF pilot and airline captain and operated the world air routes. He holds the British Airline Transport Pilots Licence and Flight Navigators Licence. For 15 years he specialised in crop protection and insect control, working as Operations Manager and Aviation Manager in large programmes for the chemical industry and the UN and becoming Director of the International Agricultural Aviation Centre based at the Cranfield Institute of Technology. He has published a number of papers on the safety aspects of this industry, both in aircraft design and the use of toxic chemical formulations, and is author of two books, published in 1985, The Handbook for Agricultural Pilots and Aviation in Crop Protection and Insect Control.Roy Quantick has taught for over 20 years at the Cranfield Institute of Technology and since 1985 has been an approved CAA instructor at training schools on the campus of Cranfield University, teaching ATPL students meteorology and other subjects.
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