Course detail
Air Navigation Devices
FSI-OLN Acad. year: 2018/2019 Winter semester
The subject contains fundamental information about air navigation equipment. It is intended for bachelors of machine engineering ( "no-pilots"), whose have not pass any of the ATPL courses (courses of professional pilots).
Subject contents:
Introduction to air navigation. Terminology. Main questions and objections of air navigation. the methods used. Navigation parameters and measurement methods. Main features of construction of navigation aids and systems. Processing of navigation data obtained. Contemplations and tendencies of modernization of aircraft navigation equipment.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
6
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Students will learn to understand the basis of aircraft navigation. They will be made familiar with operation principles of navigation equipment, basic navigation quantities and options to measure them. The subject defines basic navigation parameters and methods of navigation measurements. Students will also be acquainted with tendencies of future navigation systems development.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of academic mathematics and physics.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Conditions for obtaining the course-unit credit: 80% participation the course (at the minimum) and 50% evaluation of a written test at least. The course-unit credit is needed to be admitted to oral examination. Classification of the oral exam is predetermined by the BUT university requirements.
Aims
The course objective is to make students familiar with basic principles of aeronautical navigation.
To teach the students to analyse tasks of the equipment, solve navigation problems and expound functions and fundamentals of construction of all kinds of traditional as well as modern navigation aids and systems, used in civilian aeronautics.
To show kinds of cooperation between civil and military navigation structures in common areas of airspace and possible ways of their future development.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Attendance at both lectures and exercises is compulsory (80% at least), and it is checked and recorded. The absence (in justifiable cases) can be compensated by personal consultation with the lecturer and elaboration of individually assigned topics and exercises. Individual assignments must be finished and handed in within the credit week at the latest.
Recommended optional programme components
None.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme M2I-P: Mechanical Engineering, Master's
branch M-LPR: Aeronautical Traffic, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Introduction to aircraft navigation problems.
2. Navigation parameters.
3. Co-ordinate systems used.
4. Aeronautical charts.
5. Flight trajectories & flight tracks.
6. Aeronautical navigation equipment & navigation aids.
7. Aeronautical navigation systems. Position of the aircraft.
8. Errors of measurement of navigation parameters.
9. Dead reckoning. INS. Pressure navigation. RVSM.
10. Advanced methods of aircraft navigation & ATC (RNAV; PBN)..
11. Automatic navigation & flight control systems FMS).
12. Communication on aircraft navigation (ATN; AFTN; AMS; AMSS; SSR).
13. Consultations; reserve; credit test.
Exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1.-3. Calculation of long distances.
4.-7. Design of map graticule of projection.
8.-11. Measurement of celestial body, design of astronomical positron line.
12.-13. Satellite path parameters.