Code of Federal Regulations - Title 14

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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT

Pt. 63, App. B

(44) Work with sufficient speed to deter-

mine the aircraft’s position hourly by celes-
tial means and also make all other observa-
tions and records pertinent to the naviga-
tion. The applicant should be able to take
the observation, compute, and plot a celes-
tial LOP within a time limit of 8 minutes;
take and plot a Loran LOP within a time
limit of 3 minutes for ground waves and 4
minutes for sky waves; observe the absolute
and pressure altimeters and compute the
drift or lateral displacement within a time
limit of 3 minutes.

(45) Be accurate in reading instruments

and making computations. Errors which are
made and corrected without affecting the
navigation will be disregarded unless they
cause considerable loss of time.

An uncorrected error in computation (in-

cluding reading instruments and books)
which will affect the reported position more
than 25 miles, the heading more than 3

, or

any ETA more than 15 minutes will cause
this item to be graded unsatisfactory.

(46) Be alert to changing weather or other

conditions during flight which might affect
the navigation. An applicant should not fail
to take celestial observations just prior to
encountering a broken or overcast sky condi-
tion; and he should not fail to take a bearing
on a radio station, which operates at sched-
uled intervals and which would be a valuable
aid to the navigation.

(47) Show a logical choice and sequence in

using the various navigation methods ac-
cording to time and accuracy, and check the
positions determined by one method against
positions determined by other methods.

(48) Use a logical sequence in performing

the various duties of a navigator and plan
work according to a schedule. The more im-
portant duties should not be neglected for
others of less importance.

PPENDIX

ART

63—F

LIGHT

AVI

GATOR

RAINING

OURSE

EQUIRE

MENTS

(a)

Training course outline—(1) Format. The

ground course outline and the flight course
outline shall be combined in one looseleaf
binder and shall include a table of contents,
divided into two parts—ground course and
flight course. Each part of the table of con-
tents must contain a list of the major sub-
jects, together with hours allotted to each
subject and the total classroom and flight
hours.

(2)

Ground course outline. (i) It is not man-

datory that a course outline have the subject
headings arranged exactly as listed in this
paragraph. Any arrangement of general
headings and subheadings will be satisfac-
tory provided all the subject material listed
here is included and the acceptable min-
imum number of hours is assigned to each
subject. Each general subject shall be broken

down into detail showing items to be cov-
ered.

(ii) If any agency desires to include addi-

tional subjects in the ground training cur-
riculum, such as international law, flight hy-
giene, or others which are not required, the
hours allotted these additional subjects may
not be included in the minimum classroom
hours.

(iii) The following subjects with classroom

hours are considered the minimum coverage
for a ground training course for flight navi-
gators:

Subject

Classroom

hours

Federal Aviation Administration ...........................

To include Parts 63, 91, and 121 of this

chapter.

Meteorology .........................................................

To include:

Basic weather principles.
Temperature.
Pressure.
Winds.
Moisture in the atmosphere.
Stability.
Clouds.
Hazards.
Air masses.
Front weather.
Fog.
Thunderstorms.
Icing.
World weather and climate.
Weather maps and weather reports.
Forecasting.

International Morse code:

Ability to receive code groups of letters and

numerals at a speed of eight words per
minute

Navigation instruments (exclusive of radio and

radar) ................................................................

To include:

Compasses.
Pressure altimeters.
Airspeed indicators.
Driftmeters.
Bearing indicators.
Aircraft octants.
Instrument calibration and alignment.

Charts and pilotage .............................................

To include:

Chart projections.
Chart symbols.
Principles of pilotage.

Dead reckoning ...................................................

To include:

Air plot.
Ground plot.
Calculation of ETA.
Vector analysis.
Use of computer.
Search.

Absolute altimeter with:
Applications .........................................................

To include:

Principles of construction.
Operating instructions.
Use of Bellamy’s formula.
Flight planning with single drift correc-

tion.

Radio and long-range navigational aids ..............

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