Navigation references: Difference between revisions

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'''A few words of warning ahead:''' This article (in the spirit of Wikis) is to be enhanced! It has been started by someone who has an at best crude understanding of navigation and absolutly no experience in writing Wiki-Articles. That said, he layed out a structure of which he thinks that it would help collecting the required information. Each of the following sections is incomplete and requires further information. Please add whatever you can, even if it's just a sigle line.

This page should help to collect information on ''where'' and ''how'' to find references for '''Navigation'''. It is also meant to ellaborate a little bit on the ''why'' it is so difficult to maintain a comprehensive and complete navigational database in Flightgear.

Since this is a simulation you are not obliged to heed nor read any of those. However, many people strive for a maximum amount of realism and hence challenge when they fly, so while you could just power up the engines, take off straight from the taxiway and land in an equally ''practically oriented'' manner, you might appreciate the complexity which you would be faced with in a real plane and fly accordingly.

In reality, depending on the airport, you would be instructed either by ATC and/or written airport regulations. You would have to follow precise procedures for lighting, engine control and navigating to the runway.

If you are flying VFR, you normally take over navigation yourself and fly whereever the regulations allow you to. If you are flying IFR, you will follow your flightplan. This very flightplan is it that is subject to many regulations.

For every part of your flight there are certain regulations. In general, any ATC-given instruction by...

This page should document the ''Law'' itsself -- and in particular where to find it -- meaning the documents by which flying under either circumstances is governed. The cirumstances themselves can me manifold, depending on not just '''phase of flight''' but also on '''country''', '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace_class class of airspace]''' and '''type of aircraft'''.

One could assume that ''the law of flying'' is readily available for everyone to read up and distribute, so that everyone knows it and flys according to it. Unfortunally, reality looks different. While there might have been a time when documents of this kind were freely available, this beneficial attitude has fell victim to today's capitalism and bureaucracy.

Apart from that, you can can consult the article on [Naviation] which is currently still marked as ''Stub'' and not useful but could be enhanced.

'''Note to Editors:''' Please provide, for each entry, at least the ''URL'' of the reference, ''what'' it provides, in which ''format'' or ''how'' it is provided and a ''description'', the longer the merrier. Thank you.

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This page generates a flightplan of yet unknown quality. The service is the free version of an otherwise commerical service and is based, according to the page on a recent database of yet unknown origin. The en route waypoints appear to match real flightplans, SID and STAR are not clearly realistic.

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The FAA provides its information as part of public domain. The above page is the entry point to their database of ''Terminal Procedures''. You can obtain airport specific information per state and FAA- or ICAO-Airport identifier. Airnav is a nother provider which offers about the same service in a slightly more accessible manner.

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The FAA provides its information as part of public domain. The above page is the entry point to their database of ''Terminal Procedures''. You can obtain airport specific information per state and FAA- or ICAO-Airport identifier.