Global Navigation for Pilots, Second Edition by Dale De Remer and Donald McLean Subtitled International Flight Techniques and Procedures, this book has been the definitive textbook on these subjects since 1993.
This updated Second Edition carries on that tradition with new graphics, new text material, and critical information on European flight planning, systems and regulations. Also new to this Second Edition are chapters on Global Positioning Systems technology and its applications, and FANS: Future Air Navigation Systems. Trans-oceanic and long-distance navigation is covered in detail, as are complex technologies such as Flight Management Systems, Inertial Navigation Systems, and LORAN-C. Each topic is explained with the precision required for classroom instruction, while retaining the readability needed for general reference.

With every aspect of pilot navigation-from a discussion of International Civil Aviation Organization history and regulations to planning, flight operations, and navigation equipment-this book is written with the precision required for classroom instruction while retaining the readability needed for a general audience. Explained are aeronautical charts and maps, navigation techniques for plotting and distance measuring, and complex technologies.

This book, the third in the series, has been produced primarily to assist an applicant for a Private Pilot's Licence in the study for the Navigation examination. It is not intended as a complete course of study, but is designed to act as a guide to the main points in the syllabus. However, it is also intended to help thse who have already passsed the examination by giving them a document to which they can refer in order to navigate safely and practically.

In a departure from the other volumes, the book also includes suggestions for practical airbourne navigation, which are intended for use both for students and qualified pilots. They are not intended to replace advice from a student's own instructor. However, the book suggests methods which the author has found practical.
The most important parts of the syllabus, especially those relating directly to safety, are covered in detail. However, the coverage of parts which the author considers less vital is only sufficient to give a basic understanding of general structure. To cover the whole syllabus, or indeeed to fly with a igh level of safety, more detailed knowledge is required, and pilot should struve to learn as musch about their aircraft and its environment as possible. Pilots must refer to the Aeronautical Information Publication and other documents for accuarcy and confirmation before flight. This is especially true because this book is not amended as legislation changes.

It would be idle to pretend that radio navigation is a simple activity, something for the do-it-yourself enthusiast to teach himself. For, like basic instrument flying, the subject must be taught by good instructors and practised diligently in simulators and aircraft. However, the task of learning this complex, but fascinating, subject can greatly be eased with the aid of good text-books.

Radio Navigation for Pilots, by Alan Bramson and Neville Birch, is probably the most widely-read writers of aviation text-books in the world. Among their many titles the FLIGHT BRIEFING FOR PILOTS series has enjoyed international support for a number of years. It is an example of their talent for explaining the complicated in simple terms. The book is copiously illustrated, often in colour, and it offers the reader an opportunity of self-testing at appropriate stages in the text. There are three parts to the work: Part 1 outlines the concept of radio navigation, offers some useful revision on basic instrument flying and explains the use of radio charts. Part 2 describes the function and principle of VDF, Radar, ADF, VOR and ILS and provides an 'air exercise' based on each aid. Part 3 details three flights, starting with a simple VMC example and progressing to the more complex. All flights are supported by the various met forms and radio charts. Whether the aim is to gain an Instrument Rating or no more than a wish to make better use of the radio equipment in a light aircraft, Radio Navigation for Pilots will provide the essential stepping stone of knowledge in a way that is unique.