Synopsis
Teachs pilots how to tap the full potential of the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. The third edition features a GPS equipment showcase chapter.
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Book Description
Showcase of GPS products for private pilots: handheld models, cockpit mounts, moving maps, costs, operations, and critique. First-hand, general aviation pilot reports of using GPS. GPS in VFR, advanced, and IFR flight. How-to instruction for GPS pilot operations. Completely updated.
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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 apporaches, 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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TAB Books, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1996
ISBN 10: 0070115451
ISBN 13: 9780070115453
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 2nd Ed. 283 pages. Illustrated. Aviation Training. Seller Inventory # 74643