| Description |
1 online resource (1078 pages) : illustrations, figures, tables |
| Contents |
6. Instrument landing system -- Historical background -- Ils waveforms generation concept -- Transmitter and space modulation -- Mechanical modulator -- Principle of localizer (llz) array -- Basic localizer requirement -- Localizer advance concept -- Localizer course structure -- Glide path -- Basic of null type glide path -- Aperture effect on glide path -- Proximity effects -- Glide path advance monitoring concept -- Glide path height ratio -- Localizer antenna -- Rf distribution units (rfdu) -- Alford antenna radiation patterns -- V ring antenna -- Traveling wave antenna (twa) -- Glide path antenna and array -- Vertical plane radiation from carrier and sideband antennas -- Glide path ddm and path width -- Ils accuracy requirements for precision approach -- Ils low visibility conditions and its parameters -- Summary -- Objective questions -- 7. Microwave landing system -- Why mls? -- Need for mls as a replacement for ils -- Mls operational and functional requirements -- Description of microwave landing system -- Mls ground equipment -- Principle of time reference scanning beam (trsb) -- System design considerations -- Power budget considerations -- Siting -- Basic concept of microwave conventional scanning landing guidance system (lgs) -- Power budget -- Ground station -- Elevation case -- Summary -- 8. Transponder landing system -- Why do we need -- Basic description of the tls -- New approach of aircraft landing system -- New approach of tls -- Filtering calculations -- Theory of operation -- Localizer transmission -- Glide path transmission -- Tls components -- Elevation measurement -- Tls operational modes -- Transponder -- Interrogators -- Flight inspection methods -- Merits and demerits -- Summary -- 9. Distance measuring equipment -- Historical background -- Principle of dme system -- Airborne dme transponder -- Choice of operating frequency -- Effect of bunching on distance measurement -- Dme equipment description -- Terrain effect -- Computation for arbitrary course -- Purpose of distance measuring equipment -- Dme antenna -- Use of dme -- Summary -- Objective questions -- Descriptive questions -- 10. Tactical air navigation system -- Historical background -- Basic principle -- Basic approach of electronically switched tacan antenna -- Stepped cardiod bearing generation for tacan -- Non-rotating antenna -- Increased capability in conjugation with vor/dme, tacan and vortac -- Cone of confusion -- Tacan used as approach landing aid -- Tacan signal characteristics and errors -- Summary -- 11. Siting criteria of airport ground navigational systems -- Standards and recommended practices (sarps) -- Siting criteria of non-directional radio beacons (ndb) -- Very high frequency omni range (vor) -- Siting criteria for doppler vor (dvor) -- Siting criteria for ils -- Siting criteria for glide path (gp) -- Siting criteria for marker beacon -- Siting criteria of locator beacons -- Microwave landing system (mls) siting criteria -- Siting criteria for distance measuring equipment (dme) -- Tls siting criteria -- Summary -- A. Glossary -- Definition of navigation aids terminology -- Mls terminology -- Dme -- Instrument landing system (ils) -- Vhf omni range (vor) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Cover image and table of contents, viewed on Apr 22, 2015 |
| Subject |
Airports -- Management.
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Airports -- Management.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780070704459 |
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0070704457 |
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