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Navigation

From the sectional chart to the clock: planning, flying, and correcting a VFR cross-country, on the real New York sectional.

  1. 1Pilotage and dead reckoningNavigating by landmarks and by clock-compass-chart, and when each fails.14 min
  2. 2Reading the sectional chartSymbols, terrain, airspace, and airport data on a real chart of Boston.15 min
  3. 3Wind and drift correctionThe wind triangle: heading vs course, and the correction angle.13 min
  4. 4The E6B flight computerTime, speed, distance, fuel, and conversions - the exam's favorite tool.13 min
  5. 5The VORRadials, the OBS, TO/FROM, and intercepting a course.15 min
  6. 6GPS navigationHow it works, RAIM, WAAS, and the traps of moving-map complacency.14 min
  7. 7Planning a cross-countryA complete VFR flight planned start to finish on the sectional.16 min
  8. 8Diverting in flightChoosing an alternate you can reach, working the course out without a plotter, and using the resources on board rather than doing arithmetic while the weather closes.12 min
  9. 9Lost proceduresWhat to do when you no longer know where you are: climb, look, tune, ask - and the point at which it becomes an emergency you declare.10 min
  10. 10Radar services, the transponder, and ADS-BWhat ATC radar can and cannot see, what a VFR pilot receives from it, how the transponder and ADS-B make the airplane visible, and why none of it relieves the pilot of looking outside.14 min