Now thoroughly revised, this bestselling guide includes the latest how-to guidance on using Global Positioning System and the latest FAA rules governing its use; showcases the full line of current GPS products for private pilots-hand-held models, cockpit mounts, and much more. Features new firsthand general aviation pilot. reports on using GPS.
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GPS (the Global Positioning System) can locate an airplane "accurately within a few feet in three dimensions--latitude, longitude and altitude." This is an introduction and guide to GPS. Clarke, who says the system is so simple a child could use it, explains GPS's history and theory, the "hardware user receivers and government-provided space-based and land-based equipment needed to utilize" it, and GPS applications for both civilian and military purposes. He also discusses the system's incredible accuracy, which "exceeds that to which most maps can be read," and the national defense security system that is in place to protect GPS. Parts of the book are technical, so that reader familiarity with aeronautic and navigation terminology will be helpful. Its historical component, however, makes this an engaging book for those interested in the history and development of aeronautics and navigation as well as those who fly. Mike Tribby
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No other guide helps you navigate the Global Positioning System [GPS]like this one--with the latest applications for air, surface, and marine travel. This third edition of the Aviator's Guide to GPS is the essential sourcebook of current equipment and applications for the world's most precise, satellite-driven navigation system. Instrumentation, positioning accuracy, regulations, and the latest forms of alternative radio navigation are discussed--as is the fascinating history of the system's development by the Pentagon. The book covers this global navigational system in an easy-to-read, fully illustrated format that gives practical, hands-on pointers on: familiarizing yourself with NAVSTAR, LORAN-C, and all civilian applications of GPS; consumer advice on purchasing GPS-friendly equipment such as specialized receivers and digital instrumentation; marine navigation, land positioning, surveying, mapping, and personal safety. The author also outlines the continually evolving improvements GPS brings to modern aviation: more direct routing, precision airport approaches, decreased congestion, and safely increasing the number of aircraft that can use a given airspace. No other book on the market handles GPS as thoroughly and practically as this one. Tap the full potential of the world's premier positioning system with the Aviator's Guide to GPS!
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a great book,
This review is from: Aviator's Guide to Gps (Tab Practical Flying Series) (Paperback)
I am working on my private license, and i got to teel you that i was the dumpest navigator in the whole world befor reading this book. it is just the best book ever writtenin this subject
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THE NAVSTAR GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM, INFORMALLY REFERRED TO simply as GPS, is a space-based radio positioning system. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
user waypoints, approach holding point, nondirectional radiobeacons, flight manual supplement, sequencing receivers, radionavigation systems, integrity equivalent, normal piloting techniques, integrated navigation system, active waypoint, integrity broadcast, emergency search, navigation use, aviation users, user replaceable, receiver autonomous integrity monitoring, airplane navigation, high frequency omnidirectional range, standard positioning service, almanac data, air navigation system, datum systems, technical standard order, master control station, nonprecision approach Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Features User, Receiver Type, United States, Air Force, Coast Guard, Vdc Battery, Garmin International, Fort Worth, General Aviation Avionics, Jeppesen Americas, National Airspace System, Federal Radionavigation Plan, New York, Telemetry Handover, Cole Ranch, Communications Division of Rockwell International, Facilities Directory, Jeppesen Northstar, National Command Authority, Approach Plus, Card Alarms, Collins Avionics, Federation of Russia, Jeppesen Flybrary Card, South Central New!
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THE NAVSTAR GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM, INFORMALLY REFERRED TO simply as GPS, is a space-based radio positioning system. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
user waypoints, approach holding point, nondirectional radiobeacons, flight manual supplement, sequencing receivers, radionavigation systems, integrity equivalent, normal piloting techniques, integrated navigation system, active waypoint, integrity broadcast, emergency search, navigation use, aviation users, user replaceable, receiver autonomous integrity monitoring, airplane navigation, high frequency omnidirectional range, standard positioning service, almanac data, air navigation system, datum systems, technical standard order, master control station, nonprecision approach Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Features User, Receiver Type, United States, Air Force, Coast Guard, Vdc Battery, Garmin International, Fort Worth, General Aviation Avionics, Jeppesen Americas, National Airspace System, Federal Radionavigation Plan, New York, Telemetry Handover, Cole Ranch, Communications Division of Rockwell International, Facilities Directory, Jeppesen Northstar, National Command Authority, Approach Plus, Card Alarms, Collins Avionics, Federation of Russia, Jeppesen Flybrary Card, South Central New!
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