Course detail
Air Navigation Devices
FSI-OLN Acad. year: 2023/2024 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 requirements on performance & construction of navigation aids and systems. Processing of navigation data. Tendencies and aims of modernization of aircraft navigation equipment.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
7
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Knowledge of high school mathematics and physics.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Conditions for obtaining the course-unit credit: 80% participation at the lectures (as the minimum), and 50% evaluation of a written test at least. Successful result of the course-unit credit test is the basic condition to attend the oral examination. Classification of the examination is predetermined by the BUT university requirements.
Lectures (min. 80% attendance) and exercises (100% attendance) are realized by means of audio-visual method and therefore student´s presence is necessary.
Missed lectures & exercises can be compensated in a very limited extend only by personal consultations with the lecturer or by a selfstudy under the lecturer´s personal supervision.
Aims
The course objective is to make students familiar with basic principles of aeronautical navigation.
Education of the students to analyse tasks of the equipment, to solve navigation problems and clarify reqired functions and fundamentals of construction of all kinds of traditional as well as modern navigation aids and systems, used in civil aeronautics.
Explain the ways of cooperation between civil and military navigation structures in common airspace areas and possible tendencies of their future development.
Students will learn to understand the basis of aircraft navigation. They will be made familiar with structure of navigation operations as well as with principles of operation of navigation equipment, basic navigation quantities and procedures how 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.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-LKT-P: Aerospace Technology , Master's
specialization TLT: Airtransport and Airport Technology, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Introduction to aircraft navigation problems (Galaxy, Solar system, Earth).
2. Earth magnetism. Aircraft magnetism. Magnetic compasses.
3. Navigation parameters and co-ordinate systems.
4. Construction of aeronautic maps (projections).
5. Properties and ways of use of aeronautic maps.
6. Aeronautic navigation equipment. Navigation aids.
7. Aeronautic navigation systems. Aircraft position in space.
8. Methods of measurement of navigation parameters. Kinds of possible errors.
9. Processing of results of navigation measurement and its use in practice.
10. Dead navigation (properties; structure and function of FMS).
11. INS/IRS (principle of operation, use in air navigation; data filtration).
12. Air navigation methods (FANS recommendation; RNAV, RNP, RVSM, PBN).
13. Consultations; reserve; credit test.
Exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1.-3. Navigation parameters and coordinate systems.
4.-6. Maps and their use in practice.
7.-8. Measurement of flight parameters. Dead reckoning.
9.-11. Construction and function of LNS/LNP,. 12.-13. Navigation methods RNAv, RNP, PBN).