Avionics Navigation Systems

By Walter R. Fried

Recent advances in technology have allowed ever increasing speeds of aircraft. With this increase in speed comes the need for enhanced systems to navigate and control these vehicles to precise requirements. This book covers the basics through the recent advances in navigation theory and hardware/software.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471461806
• ISBN13: 9780471461807
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 666 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.6" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent coverage of the subject

I used the first edition in some research and the university library years ago. The second edition is even more comprehensive. I'm glad to add this to my own library.

Excellent book with exhaustive detail

This book contians all the information that anyone could ever need. It also has the best index I have ever seen, making finding the smallest section easy. It does not really cover the basics of each system, but provided you have a basic knowledge then it will build on that. It is up to the reader to decide how much depth they want to go into, this book will take them as far as they could possibly need to go.

The definitive text on the subject, for engineers and pilots

Engineers and pilots alike will appreciate this book if they skim the math and read it as a survey text, as all possible functional behavior is described for GPS, GLONASS, Inertial systems, VOR, DME, ILS, and more. The intro to the math involved is good, as it walks the line between satisfying a mathematician's love of state space and spherical trig, while not losing the average reader. As an Avionics Systems Engineer tasked with avionics integration, I found the right level of detail when the book describes electronic hardware, software requirements, and system error sources. As a "cover-to-cover" exercise, the reader is advised that this book asks for a high level of commitment. Read a chapter or two at a time (with trash novels in between), the reader's curiosity will sustain him /her for the duration of this well written book.