This is Volume 3 in a series of seven from Trevor Thom and covers the tricky subject of Air Navigation and again like it's predesesors it is marvellous. If you are taking a PPL, this book is an absolute must as it contains most of the syllabus and is a great guide into navigation.

Updated to the new JAR syllabus 'The Air Pilot's Manual' series by Trevor Thom have become internationally recognised as the foremost pilot training textbooks. With new, easy to read page layouts and excellent, clear computer generated graphics throughout they offer the student the best opportunity for easy learning of the Flying and Ground subjects for the Private Pilot Licence and will always provide excellent revision for the qualified pilot. They are standard issue for flying training organisations in the United Kingdom and throughout the World

Contents of this volume

Volume 3 covers Air Navigation and includes:

Basic Navigation Theory - Speed - Direction Navigation Computer - Vertical Navigation Time - The Earth - Aero-Nautical Charts Flight Planning - Pre-Flight - Route Selection and Charts - Flight Log - Flight Plan En-Route Navigation - Techniques - Navigation in Remote Areas - Entry/Exit Lanes .

Navigation for Pilots provides a complete study pack and practice questions for the subject of navigation as applicable to the current Joint European Airline Pilot's Licence whilst at the same time providing all the navigation basics needed by the trainee Private Pilot. The author assumes that the reader has now knowledge of the subject and works from the basics throughout.
Although modern educational techniques support the use of calculators, the theme of the book is to encourage the development of a mental checking system to determine the parameters within which the answer must lie. The benefit of this is to develop an ability to cope with navigational problems in flight without recourse to electronic aids - a great asset during single pilot operations.

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Being a competent pilot-navigator is the very essence of piloting. The foundation upon which sound pilot-navigation skills are built is meticulous flight planning.

The principal aims of this book are to teach you the theory and practice which underpin successful flight planning, and the art of single-pilot, visual navigation, as well as to prepare you for the theoretical knowledge examinations of the Private Pilot’s Licence (PPL), and beyond. To this end, the book consists of two sections; the first section deals with dead reckoning visual navigation techniques, that every pilot must master, and the second section is an introduction to radio-navigation aids.

Accompanying the book, is an interactive CD-ROM which teaches you how to use the analogue navigation computer which is used in the theoretical knowledge examinations, and which is still a firm favourite of many practising pilots. The CD-ROM contains thousands of self-test questions on the functionality of the navigation computer. These are in addition more than 170 end-of-chapter PPL-style questions.

It would be idle to pretend that radio navigation is a simple activity, something for the do-it-yourself enthusiast to teach himself. For, like basic instrument flying, the subject must be taught by good instructors and practised diligently in simulators and aircraft. However, the task of learning this complex, but fascinating, subject can greatly be eased with the aid of good text-books.

Radio Navigation for Pilots, by Alan Bramson and Neville Birch, is probably the most widely-read writers of aviation text-books in the world. Among their many titles the FLIGHT BRIEFING FOR PILOTS series has enjoyed international support for a number of years. It is an example of their talent for explaining the complicated in simple terms. The book is copiously illustrated, often in colour, and it offers the reader an opportunity of self-testing at appropriate stages in the text. There are three parts to the work: Part 1 outlines the concept of radio navigation, offers some useful revision on basic instrument flying and explains the use of radio charts. Part 2 describes the function and principle of VDF, Radar, ADF, VOR and ILS and provides an 'air exercise' based on each aid. Part 3 details three flights, starting with a simple VMC example and progressing to the more complex. All flights are supported by the various met forms and radio charts. Whether the aim is to gain an Instrument Rating or no more than a wish to make better use of the radio equipment in a light aircraft, Radio Navigation for Pilots will provide the essential stepping stone of knowledge in a way that is unique.