Air Navigation for Pilots
Air Force Manual AFM 51-43
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER l - EARTH'S SURFACE AND MAPPING
Position, Direction, and Distance
Maps and Charts
Aeronautical Chart Interpretation
CHAPTER 2 - DEAD RECKONING NAVIGATION
Plotting and Measuring
The Computer Slide Rule
The Magnetic Compass and Heading
Altitude and the Altimeter
Air Speed and the Air-Speed Indicator
Drift
Basic Navigational Problems
Precision Dead-Reckoning Procedure
Log Procedures
CHAPTER 3 - AIDS TO DEAD RECKONING
Map Reading in Basic DR
Map Reading in Precision DR
Wind Pilotage
The Drift Meter
Low-Altitude Navigation
High Altitude Navigation
Lines of Position, Bearings, and Fixes
The Radio Compass
Federal Aids to Navigation
CHAPTER 4 - SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN NAVIGATION
Controlled Time of Arrival
Search
Interception
CHAPTER 5 - ADVANCED NAVIGATIONAL TECHNIQUES
Celestial Navigation
Radar Navigation
Loran
Pressure Pattern Flying
Polar Navigation
CHAPTER 6 - ADVANCED INSTRUMENTS AND INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION
True-Air-Speed Indicator
Maximum Allowable Air-Speed Indicator
The Gyro Fluxgate Compass
Gyrosyn Compass
The Air Position Indicator
The Absolute Altimeter
Instrument Calibration
Original US Air Force Folder, large format
224 Seiten / pages
many illustrations, some in color
very good condition, not a single personal note or marking
Washington D.C. - 1952 - Department of the Air Force
Art.Nr. 25575
