Area navigation (RNAV, usually pronounced as /ˈɑːrnæv/ "ar-nav") is a method of instrument flight rules (IFR) navigation that allows an aircraft to choose...
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The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation. It is also the...
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aviation, lateral navigation (LNAV, usually pronounced el-nav) is azimuth navigation, without vertical navigation (VNAV). Area navigation (RNAV) approach...
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A satellite navigation or satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geopositioning. A satellite navigation system with global...
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ICAO performance-based navigation (PBN) specifies that aircraft required navigation performance (RNP) and area navigation (RNAV) systems performance requirements...
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In computing, spatial navigation is the ability to navigate between focusable elements, such as hyperlinks and form controls, within a structured document...
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aircraft to fly a specific path between two 3D-defined points in space. Area navigation (RNAV) and RNP systems are fundamentally similar. The key difference...
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Marine navigation is the art and science of steering a ship from a starting point (sailing) to a destination, efficiently and responsibly. It is an art...
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In computing, caret navigation (or caret browsing) is a kind of keyboard navigation where a caret (also known as a ‘text cursor’, ‘text insertion cursor’...
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Web navigation refers to the process of navigating a network of information resources in the World Wide Web, which is organized as hypertext or hypermedia...
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video game AI in 2000. A navigation mesh is a collection of two-dimensional convex polygons (a polygon mesh) that define which areas of an environment are...
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Navigational instruments are instruments used by nautical navigators and pilots as tools of their trade. The purpose of navigation is to ascertain the...
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The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) is an air navigation aid developed by the Federal Aviation Administration to augment the Global Positioning System...
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Freedom of navigation (FON) is a principle of law of the sea that ships flying the flag of any sovereign state shall not suffer interference from other...
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A navigation light, also known as a running or position light, is a source of illumination on a watercraft, aircraft or spacecraft, meant to give information...
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Eurocontrol (redirect from European organisation for the safety of air navigation)
The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, commonly known as Eurocontrol (stylised EUROCONTROL), is an international organisation working...
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The basic principles of air navigation are identical to general navigation, which includes the process of planning, recording, and controlling the movement...
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An automotive navigation system is part of the automobile controls or a third party add-on used to find direction in an automobile. It typically uses a...
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Radio navigation or radionavigation is the application of radio frequencies to determine a position of an object on the Earth, either the vessel or an...
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Polynesian navigation or Polynesian wayfinding was used for thousands of years to enable long voyages across thousands of kilometres of the open Pacific...
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application to arriving IFR aircraft destined for certain airports. Area navigation (RNAV) STAR/FMSP procedures for arrivals serve the same purpose but...
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the reference beacon(s). Rho-Theta methodology is a key component in Area Navigation (RNAV). The term "Rho-Theta" consists of the two Greek letters corresponding...
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for the provision of air traffic services. This include jet routes, area navigation routes (RNAV), and arrival and departure route. Routes may be defined...
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A navigational aid (NAVAID), also known as aid to navigation (ATON), is any sort of signal, markers or guidance equipment which aids the traveler in navigation...
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the continental shelf. Their jurisdiction covers, depending on the area: navigation, fishing, mineral extraction from the seabed, customs, fiscal, research...
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The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), with an operational name of NavIC (acronym for Navigation with Indian Constellation; also, nāvik...
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Battle of the Beams (redirect from Knickebein (navigation))
Force (Luftwaffe) used a number of increasingly accurate systems of radio navigation for night bombing in the United Kingdom. British scientific intelligence...
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An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers)...
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Submarine navigation underwater requires special skills and technologies not needed by surface ships. The challenges of underwater navigation have become...
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satellite navigation device, satnav device or satellite navigation receiver is a user equipment that uses one or more of several global navigation satellite...
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