Navigation

By Jeff Cooper

The basic principals of [|air navigation] includes planning, recording, and controlling the movement of an airplane from one place to another. Air navigation can compensate for the wind by changing the [|heading of the plane.] [| Radio Navigation] provides the pilot with positive information from grounds located world-wide. Most airplanes now are equipped with some level of radio navigation. [|Automatic Direction Finder] is the oldest kind of radio communication still in use. Some planes are shone as beacons on a [|radar] controlled by [|air traffic control.]