Air navigation. Airborne navaids

1. 1. Give the definition of air navigation.

2. What are the three chief methods of air navigation?

3. What is pilotage? Why isn’t it used by commercial airlines?

4. What is dead reckoning? What equipment is used in dead reckoning?

5. What is radio navigation?

6. What is an aeronautical chart?

7. What is an airway? How are airways formed?

8. What is the function of radio beacons?

9. Give the examples of ground navigational equipment.

10. Give examples of aircraft navigational equipment.

11. What is INS? What does INS compute?

12. How does INS direct the aircraft?

13. Does Inertial Navigation System have any ground stations?

14. What is transponder? Why is transponder very helpful for ATC?

15. What modes does it have? What are they used for?(A – identification, B – in military use, C – altitude, S – datalink)

16. What do you know about mode “S” datalink?

17. What does SSR stand for? What is it used for? (easy to get AFT identification without requesting 30 degrees turn from the original position)

18. VOR can operate more accurately using additional NAVAID. What aid increases the VOR accuracy?

19. What does TCAS stand for? What is its function? What two resolutions does it issue in case of assumed collision?

20. What is the difference between TA(Traffic Advisory) and RA(Resolution Advosory)?

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