CONTENTS:

    1. Australian airspace regulations

• 1.1 Controlled airspace
  
  
• 1.2 Air Traffic Services
  
  
• 1.3 Class G airspace
  
  
• 1.4 Restricted and danger areas
  
  
• 1.5 AIP Book, ERSA and NOTAM
  
  
• 1.6 VMC and the visual flight rules
  
  
• 1.7 RA-Aus aircraft flight operations
  
  
• 1.8 Communication and navigation aids
  
  
• 1.9 Distress frequencies and AusSAR

    2. Charts and compass

• 2.1 Defining position – latitude, longitude, altitude and time
  • Lateral dimensions
  • Effect of continental drift on precise location
  • The third positional dimension – altitude
  • Universal Coordinated Time
  
  
• 2.2 Defining the shape of the Earth – ellipsoids and geoids
  • The World Geodetic System 1984
  • Chart elevation reference — the height datum
  • The Australian geoid
  • The WGS84 ellipsoid, geoid-ellipsoid separation and GPS altitude
  
  
• 2.3 Aeronautical charts
  • Chart system basics
  • Recommended VFR charts
  • Carriage of flight documentation
  • Digitised aeronautical charts
  
  
• 2.4 Map topography
  
  
• 2.5 Defining direction — the aircraft direct reading magnetic compass
  • Magnetic variation
  • Compass deviation
  
  
• Things that are handy to know

    3. Route planning

• 3.1 The four navigation techniques for flight under the visual flight rules
  • Pilotage
  • Dead reckoning
  • Supplementary technique: position-fixing
  • Supplementary technique: homing
    
    
• 3.2 Creating a route
  • Preliminary route
  • Tracking around and beneath controlled airspace
  • Waypoint selection
    
    
• 3.3 Airfield check
  • Classification and communications
  • Legislative requirements
  • Hazards
    
    
• 3.4 Fuel planning
  • The need for maintaining fuel reserves
  • Fuel consumption
    
    
• 3.5 Plotting the route on a chart
  • Reading the chart
  • Quantifying the route data
  • Checking minimum safe altitude
  • The preliminary flight plan
    
    
• 3.6 Obtaining weather forecasts, NOTAM, first light and last light
  • Aeronautical briefing information — the NAIPS Internet Service
  • Bureau of Meteorology aviation weather services
    
    
• 3.7 Educational material available from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority

    4. The effect of wind

• 4.1 Vectors and the wind triangle
  • Velocity vectors
  • The wind triangle
  • Direct headwind/tailwind
    
    
• 4.2 Estimating heading and ground speed
  • Trigonometrical relationships
  • The 1-in-60 rule
  • Using 1-in-60 to estimate WCA
  • Using tables to derive ground speed and WCA
    
    
• 4.3 Navigation calculators
  • Circular slide rules
  • E-6B calculations

    5. Flight plan completion

• 5.1 Weather and NOTAM check
  • Area forecast
  • Aerodrome weather reports and forecasts
  • Surface chart
  • Using the Aerodrome Weather Information Service [AWIS]
  • Choosing the cruising level
  • Weather radar
  • NOTAM check
    
    
• 5.2 The set-heading point
  
  
• 5.3 Heading, ground speed and fuel calculation
  
  
• 5.4 Marking the chart plot

    6. Pre-flight safety and legality check

• 6.1 Being prepared for an emergency
  
  
• 6.2 Planning and equipment check list
  
  
• 6.3 Personal fitness for flight
  
  
• 6.4 Staying within the rules
  • Aircraft fitness for flight
  • Carriage of flight documentation
  • Expect a 'ramp check' inspection

    7. Airmanship, flight discipline & human factors training

• 7.1 What is airmanship?
  
  
• 7.2 Risk management
  
  
• 7.3 Situation awareness
  
  
• 7.4 Rules, regulations and commonsense
  
  
• 7.5 Self-discipline
  
  
• 7.6 Personal operating procedures
  
  
• 7.7 Human factors training
  
  
• 7.8 A CFI's viewpoint

    8. En route adjustments

• 8.1 Setting compass heading
  
  
• 8.2 Monitoring and recording flight progress
  • Position fixing methods
  • Recording progress
    
    
• 8.3 Track error adjustments
  • Double track error method
  • Track error/closing angle method
  • Flight direct to landmark
  • Utilising the 1-in-60 rule
  • Diversions — 30° and 60° dog-legs
    
    
• 8.4 Recalculating ETI/ETA and fuel consumption
  • Checking ground speed
  • Recalculating ETI
  • Re-assessing wind velocity
  • Summary of track angle definitions
  • Checking fuel consumption
    
    
• 8.5 Diverting to an alternate airfield
  
  
• 8.6 Line of sight distance and landmarks
  
  
• 8.7 Lost procedure
  
  
• 8.8 Dangers of flight into cloud or when lacking visual references
  • Vestibular system illusions
  • Spatial disorientation
    
    
• 8.9 Pressing on in deteriorating conditions

    9. Supplementary navigation techniques

• 9.1 Non Directional Beacon
  
  
• 9.2 Automatic Direction Finding equipment
  
  
• 9.3 ADF applications
  
  
• 9.4 NDB/ADF errors
  
  
• 9.5 VHF Omni Range
  
  
• 9.6 VOR applications
  
  
• 9.7 VOR errors

    10. En route navigation using the GNSS

• 10.1 Global navigation satellite systems [GNSS]
  • Future development
  • The Global Positioning System
  • Navigation system performance criteria
  
  
• 10.2 GPS receivers and augmentation systems
  • Portable and panel mountable/demountable GPS receivers
  • Calculating altitude
  • Configuring displays
  • Stand-alone GPS/GNSS engines
  
  
• 10.3 Performance standards for installed receivers in IFR aircraft
  
  
• 10.4 GNSS VFR applications
  • Establishing a flight plan
  • Entering the flight plan route
  • Monitoring progress
  • Emergency search feature
  
  
• 10.5 GNSS constraints

    11. Using the ADF

• 11.1 Tracking to an NDB
  
  
• 11.2 Tracking from an NDB
  
  
• 11.3 Running fix/distance from NDB
  
  
• 11.4 ADF simulator

    12. Electronic flight planning and the electronic flight bag

• 12.1 Navigation system performance criteria
  
  
• 12.2 Digitised aeronautical charts
  • VFR charts available
  • Raster and vector maps
    
    
• 12.3 Airservices Australia's integrated aeronautical information package [IAIP]
  • Aeronautical Information Service [AIS]
  • Navigational information datasets
  • Aeronautical briefing information — the NAIPS Internet Service
    
    
• 12.4 The electronic flight bag
  • The Australian regulatory status
  • EFB software suppliers
    
    
• 12.5 Electronic VFR flight planning
  • Basic needs
  • VFR flight planning software packages

    13. ADS-B surveillance technology

• 13.1 ADS-B navigation and surveillance technology system concept
  • Airborne avionics
  • ADS-B implementation in the USA
    
    
• 13.2 The Australian ADS-B implementation program
  
  
• 13.3 Airservices Australia's ADS-B system
  • The upper airspace program
  • The lower airspace program

    Supplementary documents

• Operations at non-controlled airfields — CASA Advisory Circular
  
  
• Safety during take-off & landing — CASA Advisory Circular

    Further online reading in Flight Safety Australia

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