En-Route Navigation Aids
The meaning of NDB
What is Non-Diretional Beaon?
Meaning of MLS
What is Microwave landing System?
What is Russia?
An en-route navigation aid which can calulate direction, not distance
What is a NDB?
A primary disadvantage of PAR
What is that it requires a skilled aperator to communicate data?
The amount of GPS satelites in orbit
What is 31?
The distance from a groud station to plane; the hypotenuse of a triangle with legs representing horiontal and vertial distances
What is slant distance?
The most common type of aproach and landing aid
What is an ILS?
GNSS augmentation system which can improve accuracy by up to 7 meters
What is WAAS?
The most widely used en-route navigational tool which forms the basis of airway systems that connect major aerodromes.
Bonus: use the actual name instead of the acronom for double points.
What is VOR? (Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range)
Approach and landing aid consisting of 2 transmitters which transmit signals called the localizer and the glide path
What is ILS
The full form of GNSS
What is Global Navigation Satelite system?
What an aerodrome operator must do if a en-route navigation aid stops transmitting.
What is issue a NOTAM?
The characteristic of PAR which makes it unique compared to other approach and landing aids
What is not requiring arecraft to have recievers?
Zero/zero refers to a situation where these 2 traits are effectivly non-existent
what are visibility and ceiling?