Course detail
Air Navigation Devices
FSI-OLN Acad. year: 2021/2022 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.
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 at the lectures (as the minimum) and 50% evaluation of a written test at least. The course-unit credit is the basic condition to attend the oral examination. Classification of the exam is predetermined by the BUT university requirements.
Language of instruction
Czech
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
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.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-LKT-P: Aerospace Technology, Master's
branch TLT: Airtransport and Airport Technology, 7 credits, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, compulsory
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 flight track.
4.-7. Design of map graticule of projection.
8.-11. Measurement of flight parameters.
12.-13. Satellite path parameters.