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Teacher
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MONTANINO CARMELA
(syllabus)
Air navigation in the context of air transport: peculiarities, navigation techniques.
Flight instruments and their evolution: analogue, electromechanical, electronic instruments.
Instruments for controlling the direction of the aircraft: magnetic compass, its limits and errors; gyroscopic directional; gyromagnetic telecompass; solid state magnetometers.
Altitude control instruments: ICAO standard atmosphere, true altitudes and pressure altitudes: barometric altimeter; continuous wave radio altimeter; Air Data Computer.
Speed control instruments: Pitot – static system, thermometric probes; variometer, anemometer, machmeter.
Short/medium range radio aids: NDB/ADF system and VOR/DME system: operating principle, localization exercises.
Inertial navigation systems: operating principle, block diagram.
GPS satellite system: operating principle, constitution, performance.
Avionics in the evolution of air navigation: RNAV area navigation, Performance based navigation PBN. CNS/ATM environment.
Augmentation systems, the role of the computer in navigation and flight management systems FMS.
(reference books)
Chris Binns, Aircraft Systems – Instruments, Communications, Navigation and Control, John Wiley & Sons - IEEE Press, Hoboken 2019
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