Aviator's Guide to GPS
Practical Flying Series
Bill Clarke
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. |