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  • Chapter 16: Navigation › Aeronautical Charts › Sectional Charts

    Sectional chart and legend. The charts provide an abundance of information, including airport data, navigational aids, airspace, and topography. Figure 16-1 is an excerpt from the legend of a sectional chart. By referring to the chart legend, a pilot…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Information Management › Enhanced Situational Awareness

    aircraft offers increased safety with enhanced situational awareness. Although aircraft flight manuals (AFM) explicitly prohibit using the moving map, topography, terrain awareness, traffic, and weather datalink displays as the primary data source, these tools nonetheless give the pilot unprecedented information…

  • Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Vision in Flight › Synthetic Vision System

    Synthetic Vision System (SVS) is an electronic means to display a synthetic vision image of the external scene topography to the flight crew. [Figure 17-24] It is not a real-time image like that produced by an EFVS. Unlike…

  • Chapter 12: Weather Theory › Wind and Currents › Effect of Obstructions on Wind

    problems for pilots. Obstructions on the ground affect the flow of wind and can be an unseen danger. Ground topography and large buildings can break up the flow of the wind and create wind gusts that change rapidly in direction…

  • Pilot/Controller Glossary › E

    installed aircraft system which uses an electronic means to provide a display of the forward external scene topography (the natural or man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevation…

  • Chapter 12: Weather Theory › Measurement of Atmosphere Pressure

    changes, differences between the surfaces of continents and oceans, and other factors such as frictional forces caused by the topography of the Earth’s surface that modify the movement of the air in the atmosphere. For example, within…