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SkillMaintain aircraft control while selecting proper communications frequencies, identifying the appropriate facility, and managing navigation equipment.
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- Chapter 9: Navigation Systems › Advanced Technologies › GPS Substitution for ADF or DME
Verify aircraft GPS system integrity monitoring is functioning properly and indicates satisfactory integrity. 2. Select from the airborne database the facility providing the DME arc as the active GPS WP. The only acceptable facility is the DME facility on which ... based. If this facility is not in your airborne database, you are not authorized to perform this operation. 3. Maintain position on the arc by reference to the GPS distance instead of a DME readout. To Navigate TO or FROM…
- Chapter 2: The Air Traffic Control System › Communication Equipment › Navigation/Communication Equipment
Communication Equipment Navigation/Communication Equipment Civilian pilots communicate with ATC on frequencies in the very high frequency (VHF) range between 118.000 and 136.975 MHz. To derive full benefit from the ATC system, radios capable of 25 kHz spacing are required ... assigns a frequency that cannot be selected, ask for an alternative frequency. Figure 2-1 illustrates a typical radio panel installation consisting of a communications transceiver on the left and a navigational receiver on the right. Many radios allow…
- Chapter 9: Navigation Systems › Traditional Navigation Systems › DME Components
Components VOR/DME, VORTAC, ILS/DME, and LOC/DME navigation facilities established by the FAA provide course and distance information from collocated components under a frequency pairing plan. DME operates on frequencies in the UHF spectrum between 962 MHz and 1213 MHz. Aircraft ... receiving equipment that provides for automatic DME selection assures reception of azimuth and distance information from a common source when designated VOR/ DME, VORTAC, ILS/DME, and LOC/DME are selected. Some aircraft have separate VOR and DME receivers, each of which…
- Chapter 2: The Air Traffic Control System › Communication Facilities › Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON)
These altitudes are not published or accessible to pilots, but are displayed at the controller’s position. [Figure 2-8] However, when pilots are assigned an altitude that seems to be too low, they should query the controller before descending ... When a pilot accepts a clearance and reports ready for takeoff, a controller in the tower contacts the TRACON for a release. Figure 2-7. Combined radar and beacon antenna. Figure 2-8. Minimum vectoring altitude (MVA) chart. An aircraft…
- 14 CFR Part 135 — Operating Requirements: Commuter and on Demand Operations and Rules Governing Persons on Board Such AircraftOpen14 CFR § 135.165 Communication and navigation equipment: Extended over-water or IFR operations.
Communication and navigation equipment: Extended over-water or IFR operations. (a) Aircraft navigation equipment requirements—General. Except as provided in paragraph (g) of this section, no person may conduct operations under IFR or extended over-water unless ... route navigation aids necessary for navigating the aircraft along the route (e.g., ATS routes, arrival and departure routes, and instrument approach procedures, including missed approach procedures if a missed approach routing is specified in the procedure) are available and suitable…
- 14 CFR § 121.349 Communication and navigation equipment for operations under VFR over routes not navigated by pilotage or for operations under IFR or over the top.
Communication and navigation equipment for operations under VFR over routes not navigated by pilotage or for operations under IFR or over the top. (1) At least two independent communication systems necessary under normal operating conditions to fulfill the functions specified ... least one of the communication systems required by paragraph (b)(1) of this section must have two-way voice communication capability. (c) Use of a single independent navigation system for operations under VFR over routes that cannot be navigated…