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• Aviation Instructor's Handbookp. 1-14
  Chapter 1: Risk Management and Single-Pilot Resource Management › Situational Awareness › Obstacles to Maintaining Situational Awareness

  emphasize that routine flight operations may lead to a sense of complacency, which can threaten flight safety by reducing situational awareness. By asking about positions of other aircraft in the traffic pattern, engine instrument indications, and the aircraft’s location ... relation to references on a chart, the flight instructor can determine if the learner is maintaining situational awareness. The flight instructor can also attempt to focus the learner’s attention on an imaginary problem with the communication or navigation equipment…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 8-11
  Chapter 8: Flight Instruments › Electronic Flight Display (EFD)

  commonly referred to as “glass cockpits.” EFDs include flight displays such as primary flight displays (PFD) and multi-function displays (MFD). This has changed not only what information is available to a pilot, but also ... necessary for aircraft designers to create cluttered panel layouts in order to accommodate all necessary flight instruments. Instead, multi-panel digital flight displays combine all flight instruments onto a single screen that is called a primary flight display…

• Instrument Flying Handbookp. 5-27
  Chapter 5: Flight Instruments › Flight Management Systems (FMS) › Electronic Flight Instrument Systems

  Electronic Flight Instrument Systems Modern technology has introduced into aviation a new method of displaying flight instruments, such as electronic flight instrument systems, integrated flight deck displays, and others. For the purpose of the practical test standards ... and/or a glass flight deck. In general aviation there is typically a primary flight display (PFD) and a multi-function display (MFD). Although both displays are in many cases identical, the PFD provides the pilot instrumentation necessary…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 3-13
  Chapter 3: Aircraft Construction › Chapter Summary › Navigation Instruments

  aircraft speed or altitude. In order to determine these variables and others, a pilot must reference the performance instruments. Navigation Instruments The navigation instruments indicate the position of the aircraft in relation to a selected navigation facility or fix. This ... indicators, and bearing pointers. Newer aircraft with more technologically advanced instrumentation provide blended information, giving the pilot more accurate positional information. Navigation instruments are comprised of indicators that display GPS, very high frequency (VHF) omni-directional radio range…

• Instrument Flying Handbookp. 9-45
  Chapter 9: Navigation Systems › Flight Management Systems (FMS) › Function of FMS

  quickly define a desired route from the aircraft’s current position to any point in the world, perform flight plan computations, and display the total picture of the flight route to the crew. Figure 9-41. Required navigation performance ... also has the capability of controlling (selecting) VOR, DME, and LOC NAVAIDs, and then receiving navigational data from them. INS, LORAN, and GPS navigational data may also be accepted by the FMS computer. The FMS may act as the input/output…

• Instrument Procedures Handbookp. 4-57
  Chapter 4: Approaches › RNAV Approaches

  performance standard concept is being implemented for departure/approach procedure design. Through the use of RNP, the underlying system of navigation may not be required, provided the aircraft can maintain the appropriate RNP standard. The second shift is advanced avionics systems ... such as FMS, used by most airlines, needed a new navigation standard by which RNAV could be fully integrated into the instrument approach system. An FMS uses multi-sensor navigation inputs to produce a composite position. Essentially, the FMS navigation…