This book highlights the design principles of ground based radio-navigation systems used in solving navigation tasks in the airfield and on air routes. Mathematical correlations are illustrated that describe its operation, peculiarities of disposition, main technical characteristics, generalized structural diagrams as well as the inter-operation with onboard equipment. Examples of building, construction, functional diagrams, and characteristics of Russian made radio-navigation systems are discussed. This book is written for students of electronics and aviation disciplines. It can also be useful for aviation specialists as well as for those interested in air radio-navigation.

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Dr. Skrypnik is Professor and Chair of the Department of Aviation Radio Equipment at the Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation. He is an Honored Worker of high professional education of Russian Federation (2004), and a Full Member of the Russian Academy of natural sciences. He is an author of more than 100 scientific publications, 12 professional textbooks and aids on aviation radio equipment.

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CHAPTER 1. ELEMENTS OF THE GENERAL RADIO NAVIGATION THEORY

1.1. Air navigation and its technical aids overview

1.2. Main building principles and classification of radio-navigation aids

1.3. Main navigation notions and terms

1.4. Coordinate systems used in air navigation

1.5. Lines and surfaces of position

1.6. Methods of aircraft's position determination 1.7. Coverage areas of essential radio navigation systems types

1.7.1. Methodology of coverage area construction

1.7.2. Coverage area of theta-theta navigation system

1.7.3. Coverage area of rho-rho radio navigation system

1.7.4. Coverage area of rho-theta navigation system

1.7.5. Coverage area of hyperbolic fixing (range difference) navigation system

1.8. Aeronautical consumers' requirements to the navigation accuracy

CHAPTER 2. DIRECTION MEASURING SHORT-RANGE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS

2.1. General Characteristics of Short-Range Navigation Systems

2.2. Non-Directional Beacons (NDB)

2.2.1. Application and Missions

2.2.2. NDB Placement

2.2.3 A Generalized Block-Diagram and Operation Principle of an NDB

2.2.4. NDB Design and Basic Specifications

2.3. Aviation VHF Direction Finders

2.3.1. Function, general characteristics, on-aerodrome location

2.3.2. Principles of forming and processing information in DFs

2.3.3. Design and main specifications of DFs

CHAPTER 3. RHO-THETA SHORT-RANGE RADIOTECHNCAL NAVIGATION

SYSTEMS

3.1. Common characteristics of rho-theta short-range radiotechnical navigation system

3.2. VOR system

3.2.1. Main characteristics and the purpose of system

3.2.2. Unified structural configuration and VOR system's operating principle 3.2.3. DVOR system operating principle

3.2.4. Constrction and main technical characteristics of VOR (DVOR) radio beacons

3.3. DME distance-measuring system

3.3.1. Function and general characteristics of the system

3.3.2. DME generic block diagram and operation principle

3.3.3. Design and main specifications of DME beacons

CHAPTER 4. RADIOTECHNICAL LANDING SYSTEMS

4.1. Classification and categories of landing systems

4.2. General description of radiotechnical landing systems

4.2.1. NDB-based landing systems

4.2.2. Radar landing systems

4.2.3. Radio beacon landing systems

4.3. Instrument Landing System

4.3.1. Principles of construction and operation

4.3.2. Equisignal radio beacons

4.3.3. "Zero-referenced" (CSB/SBO) radio beacons

4.3.4. Twin-channel radio beacons

4.3.5. Processing of ILS signals by airborne equipment 4.4. Marker beacons

4.5. Design and main specifications of ILS radio beacons

CHAPTER 5. LANDING SYSTEMS BASED ON SATELLITE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS

5.1. General Information of SNS

5.1.1. Performance features and structure of Satellite Navigation Systems

5.1.2. Parameters of orbit groups and the contents of ephemeris information 5....