Educational content

Conventional radio navigation

General considerations on navigation

Navaids characteristics

Operational use by the crew

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)

GPS positioning techniques

GNSS 1 characteristics

RAIM (Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring) principles and hands-on

GNSS 2 characteristics

Inertial systems

Inertial navigation principles and Kalman filtering

Study of the inertial navigation reference system

Hybridized GPS/IRS systems

IRS hands-on : illustration of inertial error sources onto position estimation

On board navigation systems architecture

Overview of RNAV airborne architecture whatever the aircraft type

Airbus navigation architectures

RNAV architectures on business jets

Flight management system overview

Regulatory and safety aspects

Required navigation performance overview and operational benefits

Navigation Architecture evolutions to fit with the Performance Based Navigation Concept

Approach and landing challenges

Navigation systems supporting the approach and landing operations

Approach and landing operations

Procedures for approach and landing

Overview of airborne architectures for approach and landing whatever the aircraft type

Example of the airbus architecture for approach and landing

Flight simulation session

Light aircraft simulation session (TB20 like)

Commercial aircraft simulation session (A320 like)

For information only : 54 hours