DEFINITION:

Contains all sub-domains relating to navigation techniques and systems..

(Source: ACARE Domain 705)

SUBDOMAINS:

1. Satellite Navigation Systems: GPS, GPS Integrity, Differential GPS, GNSS, GLONASS, GNSS-2, WGS 84, Geodetic References, GNSS Augmentation, GPS Augmentation systems, Pseudolites, EGNOS, GPS Overlay.

Comments: navigation data base and grid co-ordinate systems, specifications, interfaces, validation and safety of subsystems, augmentation and overlay systems.

2. Operational Navigation System: RVSM, PRNAV, RHSM, RNP, Navigation System, Altimetry, terrestrial nav-aids, LORAN, DME, beacons, VOR, NDB.

Comments: all means necessary for aircraft to determine its own position, height and other dynamic characteristics; guidance of the aircraft; validation and safety of subsystems. Includes Reduced Vertical and Horizontal Separation, Precision RNAV, RNP Standards, multi-mode integrated navigation systems. Include altimetry techniques; terrestrial navigation aids.