Understanding Aeronautical Charts - Softcover

Lankford, Terry T.

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9780070364677: Understanding Aeronautical Charts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070364672 ISBN 13: 9780070364677

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1996

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This book combines into one convenient source all of the information every pilot needs to increase his or her understanding of, and efficiency in using charts. This completely updated edition incorporates new airspace classifications, GPS, international procedures, and other important developments affecting chart use-making it the most comprehensive and timely reference for chart information available. The author draws upon his own extensive flight experience to provide seasoned insights, covering such topics as VFR and HFR charts, chart projections and limitations, visual chart terminology and symbols, and souces of aeronautical charts.

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The most complete, practical reference on how to read, interpret, and use charts-now thoroughly updated! You need a comprehensive guide to aeronautical charts-rooted in practical, real-world applications, presented in one convenient source. This book is the only one on the market that fits the bill. With it, you can learn to translate, analyze, and apply chart information to a wide variety of flight situations, improving your flight preparation practices and making you a safer pilot. understanding Aeronautical Charts, Second Edition, is updated with important new information on airspace classifications, GPS, international procedures, and other developments affecting chart use. Seasoned pilot and flight instructor Terry T. Lankford discusses chart projections and limitations as well as gives you comprehensive, donw-to-earth explanations-supplemented with plenty of examples and illustrations-of how to make the best use of VFR and IFR charts for flight planning and navigation. Topics covered in detail include: Visual chart terminology and symbols; Standard visual charts; Standard instrument departure and terminal arrival charts; Enroute charts; Instrument approach procedures charts... .the pros and cons of government vs. private chart services, and more. You'll also find out why aeronautical publications and other sources of supplemental information should not be overlooked as vital components of effective preflight planning. There's a complete list of all chart sources mentioned.

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