Book description
An authoritative guide to the various systems related to navigation, control, and other instrumentation used in a typical aircraft
Aircraft Systems offers an examination of the most recent developments in aviation as it relates to instruments, radio navigation, and communication. Written by a noted authority in the field, the text includes in-depth descriptions of traditional systems, reviews the latest developments, as well as gives information on the technologies that are likely to emerge in the future. The author presents material on essential topics including instruments, radio propagation, communication, radio navigation, inertial navigation, and puts special emphasis on systems based on MEMS.
This vital resource also provides chapters on solid state gyroscopes, magnetic compass, propagation modes of radio waves, and format of GPS signals. Aircraft Systems is an accessible text that includes an investigation of primary and secondary radar, the structure of global navigation satellite systems, and more. This important text:
- Contains a description of the historical development of the latest technological developments in aircraft instruments, communications and navigation
- Gives several “interesting diversion” topics throughout the chapters that link the topics discussed to other developments in aerospace
- Provides examples of instruments and navigation systems in actual use in cockpit photographs obtained during the authors work as a flight instructor
- Includes numerous worked examples of relevant calculations throughout the text and a set of problems at the end of each chapter
Written for upper undergraduates in aerospace engineering and pilots in training, Aircraft Systems offers an essential guide to both the traditional and most current developments in aviation as it relates to instruments, radio navigation, and communication.
Table of contents
- Cover
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1 Historical Development
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 The Advent of Instrument Flight
- 1.3 Development of Flight Instruments Based on Air Pressure
- 1.4 Development of Flight Instruments Based on Gyroscopes
- 1.5 Development of Aircraft Voice Communications
- 1.6 Development of Aircraft Digital Communications
- 1.7 Development of Radio Navigation
- 1.8 Area and Global Navigation Systems
- 1.9 Development of Auto Flight Control Systems
- References
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2 Pressure Instruments
- 2.1 Layers of the Atmosphere
- 2.2 The International Standard Atmosphere (ISA)
- 2.3 Nonstandard Atmospheres
- 2.4 Dynamic Pressure and the Bernoulli Equation
- 2.5 Definition of Sea Level and Elevation
- 2.6 Definition of Height, Altitude, and Flight Level
- 2.7 Pitot and Static Sources
- 2.8 Pressure Altimeter
- 2.9 Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI)
- 2.10 Airspeed Indicator
- 2.11 Mach Meter
- 2.12 OAT Probe
- 2.13 Pitot–Static Systems
- 2.14 Air Data Computer (ADC)
- Problems
- References
- 3 Gyroscopic and Magnetic Instruments
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4 Radio Propagation and Communication
- 4.1 Basic Properties of Radio Waves
- 4.2 Propagation of Radio Waves
- 4.3 Transmitters, Receivers, and Signal Modulation
- 4.4 Antennas
- 4.5 VHF Communications System
- 4.6 Long‐Range HF Communications System
- 4.7 Satellite Communications
- 4.8 Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS)
- Problems
- References
- 5 Primary and Secondary Radar
- 6 General Principles of Navigation
- 7 Short‐Range Radio Navigation
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8 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
- 8.1 Basic Principle of Satellite Navigation
- 8.2 The Constellation of Space Vehicles (SVs)
- 8.3 Transmissions by the GPS SVs
- 8.4 Control Segment
- 8.5 Sources of GPS Errors
- 8.6 Relativity Corrections Required for GPS
- 8.7 Augmentation Systems
- 8.8 GPS Cockpit Instrumentation
- 8.9 Spoofing, Meaconing, and Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Resilience
- Problems
- References
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9 Inertial Navigation and Kalman Filtering
- 9.1 Basic Principle of Inertial Navigation
- 9.2 Gimbaled Systems
- 9.3 Strapdown Systems
- 9.4 Accelerations Not due to Changes in Aircraft Motion
- 9.5 Schüler Oscillations
- 9.6 Earth‐Loop Oscillations
- 9.7 Summary of Inertial Guidance Errors
- 9.8 Cockpit Instrumentation
- 9.9 Kalman Filter
- Problems
- References
- Appendix A: Radiation from Wire Antennas
- Appendix B: Theory of Transmission Lines and Waveguides
- Appendix C: Effective Aperture of a Receiving Antenna
- Appendix D: Acronyms
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Aircraft Systems
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2018
- Publisher(s): Wiley-IEEE Press
- ISBN: 9781119259541
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