DGCA Air Navigation: six parts

DGCA Navigation in six parts and 60 chapters: General Navigation, Instruments, Radio Navigation, Mass and Balance, Performance and Flight Planning.

General Navigation

Where you are, which way you point, and how to get from A to B: the Earth, charts, time, the wind triangle and the point of no return.

• Chapter 01: The Earth: directions, latitude and longitude (free)
• Chapter 02: Change of latitude and longitude, departure and distance
• Chapter 03: Great circles, rhumb lines and convergency
• Chapter 04: Variation, deviation and the Earth's magnetism
• Chapter 05: Units and conversions
• Chapter 06: Dead reckoning and the navigation computer
• Chapter 07: Track, heading, drift and the 1-in-60 rule
• Chapter 08: Vertical navigation: slopes, descent rates and top of descent
• Chapter 09: Chart reading: relief, symbols and airspace
• Chapter 10: Chart properties and scale
• Chapter 11: Mercator
• Chapter 12: Lambert conformal conic
• Chapter 13: Polar charts, transverse Mercator and grid
• Chapter 14: The solar system, seasons and the day
• Chapter 15: Time: LMT, UTC and the date line
• Chapter 16: Sunrise, sunset and twilight
• Chapter 17: The magnetic compass: errors and the swing
• Chapter 18: The critical point (point of equal time)
• Chapter 19: Point of no return and point of safe return

Instruments

The dials in front of a pilot: how each one works inside, and what it shows when something goes wrong.

• Chapter 20: The pitot-static system and blockages (free)
• Chapter 21: The airspeed indicator
• Chapter 22: The pressure altimeter
• Chapter 23: The vertical speed indicator
• Chapter 24: Mach number, the Machmeter and the air data computer
• Chapter 25: Gyroscope principles
• Chapter 26: The directional gyro indicator
• Chapter 27: The attitude indicator
• Chapter 28: Turn and slip, and the turn coordinator
• Chapter 29: The remote indicating compass
• Chapter 30: The radio altimeter
• Chapter 31: Electronic displays: EFIS, EICAS, ECAM
• Chapter 32: Automatic flight
• Chapter 33: Warning systems: GPWS, EGPWS, TCAS
• Chapter 34: Flight data and cockpit voice recorders
• Chapter 35: Engine and temperature instruments

Radio Navigation

Finding your way by radio: NDB, VOR, DME, ILS, radar and GPS, and how to read their needles.

• Chapter 36: Radio waves and propagation (free)
• Chapter 37: VHF direction finding and the Q codes
• Chapter 38: NDB and ADF
• Chapter 39: VOR and Doppler VOR
• Chapter 40: The instrument landing system
• Chapter 41: Radar principles and ground radar
• Chapter 42: Airborne weather radar
• Chapter 43: SSR, transponders and Mode S
• Chapter 44: Distance measuring equipment
• Chapter 45: Area navigation, FMS and PBN
• Chapter 46: GNSS
• Chapter 47: Inertial navigation: INS and IRS

Mass and Balance

How heavy the aircraft is and where that weight sits, so it is safe to fly.

• Chapter 48: Mass definitions and maximum payload
• Chapter 49: CG, datum, arm, moment and %MAC
• Chapter 50: CG limits, CG effects and the load sheet

Performance

How much runway it needs, how it climbs, cruises and lands, and the speeds that matter.

• Chapter 51: Take-off speeds and stall
• Chapter 52: Pressure altitude, density altitude and ISA
• Chapter 53: Take-off performance
• Chapter 54: Climb performance
• Chapter 55: Descent and glide
• Chapter 56: Cruise performance
• Chapter 57: Landing performance

Flight Planning

Planning the trip: the flight plan form, fuel and the navigation log, and long flights far from an airport.

• Chapter 58: Fuel planning and the navigation log
• Chapter 59: The ICAO flight plan
• Chapter 60: EDTO and ETOPS

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