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Understanding Mathematics for Aircraft Navigation (Understanding Aviation S)

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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product THE BOOK THAT SOLVES THE MYSTERIES OF NAVIGATIONNavigating is easier and safer when you truly understand how it works. This enjoyably readable, in-the-cockpit guide helps you build that base of understanding, without pain. Written by flight instructor/mathematician/computer expert/teacher James S. Wolper, Understanding Mathematics for Aircraft Navigation helps you handle―and grasp―every aspect of getting from here to there, determining where you are now, taking full advantage of today’s sophisticated navigation equipment, and even using ancient celestial methods in an emergency.Even if you’re math- phobic, Wolper has a way of making the principles of navigation so simple and interesting you'll wonder why no one ever presented them this way before. This book steers you from the celestial to the electronic with nary a hitch. Along the way, you’ll build skills with geometry, chart-making, and long-distance flight planning, plus computer and instrument use. In the end, you'll have an unshakable foundation in navigation―and will even be able to explain it to the unenlightened.FEATURES INCLUDE: Step-by-step narrative approach to navigation skills and judgment Complete introduction to magnetic compass use Flight planning―including long distance―fully explained Chart construction and use How-to’s on GPS (and other navigation systems)―plus how they work Memorable, time-saving rules of thumb In-your-head calculation tricks Complete discussion of the Earth’s shape Perfect for beginning and advanced pilotsIF YOU WANT TO LEARN NAVIGATION, THIS BOOK CAN HELP YOU: Learn what you want to know painlessly Discover the fascinating origins of navigation in history and lore Grasp trigonometric principles Leverage your computer skills into powerful navigation tools Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw Hill; 1st edition (June 13, 2001)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 260 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0071375724


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 26


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.13 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 0.57 x 9.3 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #1,411,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #875 in Piloting & Flight Instruction #1,375 in Aeronautics & Astronautics (Books) #5,562 in Applied Mathematics (Books)


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    • Five Stars
This book is interesting. Thank you for the fast service.
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2014 by Plane CB
    • Five Stars
good
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2016 by Ben F. Seagraves
    • Is not that is a bad book. But its explanations are very complicated and ...
Is not that is a bad book. But its explanations are very complicated and is not explained that in deep as you would like to go in order to understand more. Not recomended for specialized studies, but for consult... If you are studing for pilot, not recomended for you, very very technical. ITs kind of engineer type of book(And im an engineer, i know what im talking about) ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2014 by Raphael
    • Good for getting to know things from a different point of view.
While Richard's comment about the book might be true, I (private pilot currently doing instrument rating) found the book very interesting in the way that it introduces much of what I already knew (and much of what I didn't) from a completely new point of view. The thing is, pilots are confined in their own way of thinking, and fairly often know much less about the mathematical part of navigation than would be desirable. I personally felt my private pilot ground school was baby talk, the textbooks did not contain enough about mathematics, and it felt good to read something that assumes the reader went to at least high school. That being said, the mathematics in the book are not scary, I felt the author intentionally did not use anything more complicated than high school math (mostly simple trigonometry), which he also said in the beginning of the book. My math was quite average in high school, and never really dealt with it anymore in university, and it still did not take too much effort to understand most of the book. It did require some brain work to follow the calculations, though. The most mathematical part of the book is the second chapter, "Vectors and Spheres", where I had to skip some of the calculations. The book could have used a little more explanation in this part, but I must admit, had I not been a little lazy, I could have looked up the necessary knowledge in a couple of days. I am the kind of person who likes to ask a lot of "why?" questions in my head, and this book gave me answers to a number of them. I imagine the book could be equally interesting for math students, as it gives meaning to the numbers - something I missed a lot in mathematics. While to me it was definitely the first half of the book that contained most of the new things, to them it might be the other way round. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2007 by Oliver Racz
    • A Decent Introduction to Aircraft Navigation
So you know where I'm coming from, I'm an aeronautical engineer with a background in aircraft design and flight mechanics, and I also fly recreationally and hold a commercial license with an instrument rating. Overall I thought the book was Ok. I cannot not recommend it, but I'm struggling with who this book is really for. In some respects, the book tries to do too much. In other respects, I'm not sure it does enough. For those pilots who are looking for a little mathematical background on what's going on in ground school and in the cockpit, this may be the book for you. But if you don't have a strong math background, you may feel frustrated even though things like the dot and cross product are explained fairly well and even derived. But like practicing navigation, if you haven't practiced deriving and using the dot and cross products on your own so that you truly understand them, it may be overwhelming. I don't know if the paper version has more and better graphics, but I found the Kindle edition to be lacking in quality and number of graphics to properly explain some of the concepts. I do laud the author for emphasizing the need to practice these things in the cockpit. It's one thing to plot a running fix on a chart table with parallel rules on a bridge (how I learned) and quite another in a cramped cockpit with turbulence when you finally just throw the plotter away and advance the fix with thumbs (for me about 5nm wide on a sectional chart) and fingers and "that looks about right". There may be one error in the book although I haven't gone back to verify. In the section on celestial nav, there is an example about how to use time to compute longitude. If local noon occurs at 1900 (7PM) GMT or ZULU, then you are 7hrs *west* of Greenwich. With a time zone being 15 deg or 1 hour wide, 7hrs * 15deg/hr = 105 degrees west of Greenwich somewhere along the longitude of Denver not 75 deg east. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2012 by Amazon Customer
    • Great book, easy to read
Great book, easy to read. Makes navigation looks easy. Another advantage is that it is cheap.
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2007 by B. H. Van Dyk
    • Not bad, but
the content was not quite what I expected it to be. Most of the content of this book is already common knowledge among professional pilots.
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2007 by Richard

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