The title says it all. Every facet of navigation is explained in this book. Simple souls will say start up, taxi out, take off and fly direct to your destination. Well you should read this book first.
The author lifts you up to academical levels not only with explaining the function of every instrument on board your plane that needs you to fly safe and economical possible to every given airport but includes safe flight planning, atmospheric physics , procedures, human interface, aerodynamics, air traffic services etc. etc.
Almost all subjects explained in this book that influences your navigation are backed up with drawings, diagrams, photo material and for the academics amongst us a lot of formulas. Some samples of subjects: radio navigation, global satellite navigation, global trajectory and digital communications. Case studies support some topics of navigation errors that lead to crashes or serious incidents involving fuel shortages, misinterpretation of instruments or wrong calculations
It’s a book for commercial pilots and the source (faculty of aerospace engineering) says it all: reading it will upgrade you to a very high professional level. So a copy of this book containing 771(!) pages should be on every ATPL training course. For a simple GA pilot like me it is way out of my reach to understand all information that is written down but the beautiful graphics and photos will make it in many cases more understandable for the reader.
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