The flight path is resolved in two rectangular components and is displayed by a light pointer on a map of conformal conical projection. From these data both the flight path and the track are computed. and computing technologies it is now possible to provide General Aviation users with integrated. Flight Computer : Computer : Slide Illustration 2 COMPUTER, AIR NAVIGATION, DEAD RECKONING LATITUDE. The wind is set at the map display, and ‘grivation’ at the course and track indicator. Key Words: Dead Reckoning, General Aviation, DME, GPS. The computer is fed by a gyro-magnetic compass and a true airspeed transmitter. 1 are additional units, only used when monitoring by tacan is desired, as will be described. The station selector and the coordinate transformer shown in Fig. It consists of the computer, the map display and the course and track indicator. 1 shows a schematic diagram of the computer.
Included with the computer is a 14 inch Plotter Type PLU-1/C, and a Dietzgen Divider in an aluminum tube, for measuring and repeating distances on a map. This computer, built by the Felsenthal Instruments company sometime around 1960 (but. On the front it has a sliding translucent window with a rotating compass dial and many incomprehensible markings. The so called Automatische Koppelkarte has been developed by the Institute of Air Navigation of the Technical University of Stuttgart, and is a new type of dead reckoning computer differing from the usual navigation computers in that position is immediately indicated on a map there are many possibilities for combining the device with other navigational aids.įig. Here is an Air Navigation Computer as used by US Air Force navigators from 1940-1980 for dead reckoning navigation. Sea navigators did not follow the practice of air navigators and allow for ocean currents and tidal drifts in their initial calculations. This contraption is a Computer, Air navigation, Dead Reckoning, Type CPU-26 A/P (Backwards talk loves to the Military, Yoda the Jedi like). Ramsayer's paper, presented at the tripartite meeting on automatic navigation held in Paris last April, describes a dead-reckoning computer on which position is presented instantaneously on a map.