Course detail

Air Navigation Devices

FSI-OLNAcad. year: 2021/2022

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.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

7

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Miroslav Šplíchal, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Aerospace Engineering (LÚ)

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.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

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.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

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.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

JAA ATPL Theoretical Knowledge Manual, 061 General Navigation, Jeppesen, Oxford 2006
JAA ATPL, 062 Radionavigation, Theoreticalů Knowledge Manual, Oxford, 2006
Kayton, M.; Fried,W.R.: Avionics Navigation Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, 1997, second edition
Kevický,D., Kalašová,A.: Satelitné navigačné systémy, Žilinská univerzita v Žiline, EDIS-vydavateľstvo ŽU, 2004, ISBN 80-8070-295-0
Kevický,D., Kulčák,L., Palička,L.: Koncepcia leteckých zabezpečovacích systémov, VŠDS Žilina 1995, ISBN 80-7100-209-7
KOLEKTIV AUTORŮ: Učebnice pilota, ISBN – 80 – 85280 – 89 – 2, Svět křídel, Cheb, 2003 (CS)
KULČÁK a kol.: Učebnice pilota vrtulníku II, ISBN 978-80-7204-638-6, CERM s.r.o., Brno, 2009 (CS)
KULČÁK,L. a kol.: Zabezpečovacia letecká technika, Žilinská univerzita v Žilině, 1999.
PŘIBYL,K., KEVICKÝ,D.: Letecká navigace, NADAS PRAHA, 1980.
STAVOVČÍK, Boleslav: Obecná navigace, učební texty pro teoretickou přípravu dopravních pilotů dle předpisu JAR-FCL-1, CERM, s.r.o., Brno, 2008 (CS)
Vosecký, S.: Radionavigace, učební texty pro teoretickou přípravu dopravních pilotů dle předpisu JAR-FCL-1, CERM s.r.o., Brno, 2011 (CS)
VOSECKÝ,S. a kol.: Základy leteckých navigačních zařízení I a II, Vojenská akademie v Brně 1988, Fakulta strojního inženýrství v Brně

Recommended reading

Aviationexam.com: JAA TEST PREP, 061 General Navigation, Edition 2010, Czech Republic
GROVES, P.D.: Principles of GNSS, Inertial, And Multisensor Integrated Navigation Systems, ISBN - 13:978 - 1 - 58053 - 255 - 6, USA, BOSTON/LONDON ARTECH HOUSE 2008
PŘIBYL,K., KEVICKÝ,D.: Letecká navigace, NADAS PRAHA, 1980 VOSECKÝ,S. a kol.: Základy leteckých navigačních zařízení I a II, Vojenská akademie v Brně, 1988

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-LKT-P Master's

    specialization TLT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Slavomír Vosecký, CSc.

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 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Slavomír Vosecký, CSc.

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.