DEFINITION:
Navigation and flight management systems are required to optimise the efficiency of operating aircraft in the ever more densely populated airspace. The objective is for full and permanent automatic approach and landing in all weathers.
Links with SSS – ‘Surveillance Sensor Systems‘.
(Source: ACARE Domain 403)
SUBDOMAINS:
- RF-based aircraft navigation and guidance systems (e.g. VOR, ILS, MLS, LORAN, TACAN, ADF, DME, NDB)
- Satellite-based aircraft navigation and guidance systems (e.g. GPS, differential GPS, GLONASS)
- Inertial navigation systems
- Digital altitude control systems (radar altimeters etc)
- System interfaces, data flows and analysis. 3D FMS< 4D FMS, flight database
- Inspection, adjustment, performance testing, malfunction analysis and corrective
- Automatic landing systems. autoland, low visibility approach and landing, precision approach, tactical decision tools
- Enhanced vision systems, pattern recognition and data fusion
- Synthetic 3D vision with terrain and obstacle information and visualisation, automatic warnings to crew if flight path intersects with terrain
Browsing taxonomies
Upper level
Sections at this level
- 01 Avionics
- 02 Cockpit Systems, Visualization & Display Systems
- 03 Navigation / Flight Management / Autoland
- 04 Warning Systems
- 05 Electronics & Microelectronics for on-board systems
- 06 Sensors Integration
- 07 Flight Data/Flight Recording
- 08 Communications Systems
- 09 Identification
- 10 Avionics Integration
- 11 Optics – Optronics – Lasers – Image processing and data fusion
- 12 Electronic Library System
- 13 Aircraft health and usage monitoring system
- 14 Smart maintenance systems
- 15 Lighting systems
- 16 Aircraft Security
- 17 Mission Sensors & Equipments
- 18 Pneumatic Systems
- 19 Hydraulic power generation & distribution
- 20 Passenger and freight systems
- 21 Environmental control System
- 22 Water and waste systems
- 23 Fuel Systems
- 24 Landing gear and braking systems
- 25 Fire Protection Systems