{"id":15315,"date":"2023-01-01T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T00:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibexaviation.com\/pilot-training\/?p=15315"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:39:57","slug":"general_navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibexaviation.com\/pilot-training\/general_navigation\/","title":{"rendered":"General Navigation &#8211; Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ibexaviation.com\/page-show\/ground-subjects\/ground-subjects-for-pilots-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<h2>Important Topics in General Navigation<\/h2>\n<p>General Navigation is a pilot training subject covering principles of position finding and route tracking using charts and compass. It includes dead reckoning, visual navigation, wind correction, time-speed-distance calculations, and great-circle routes. It teaches pilots to determine position accurately and navigate safely across varying weather and terrain conditions.<\/p>\n<p>General Navigation provides the fundamental knowledge and skills required for accurate flight planning and navigation. Key topics include the measurement of directions, position reference systems, great circle and rhumb line navigation, measurement of distance, magnetism and compasses, the triangle of velocities, the one in sixty rule, map reading techniques, and the scale of maps and charts. The course also covers convergence and conversion angles, departure, map and chart projections, including Perspective Cylindrical Projection, Normal Mercator Projection, Transverse Mercator Projection, Oblique Mercator Projection, Simple Conic Projection, Lambert Conformal Conic Projection, and Polar Stereographic Projection, as well as plotting on Mercator and Lambert charts. In addition, students gain an understanding of the solar system, the measurement of years and days, measurement of time, sunrise, sunset, and twilight, and grid navigation techniques, all of which are essential for accurate navigation and safe flight operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important Topics in General Navigation General Navigation is a pilot training subject covering principles of position finding and route tracking using charts and compass. It includes dead reckoning, visual navigation, wind correction, time-speed-distance calculations, and great-circle routes. It teaches pilots to determine position accurately and navigate safely across varying weather and terrain conditions. General Navigation provides the fundamental knowledge and skills required for accurate flight planning and navigation. Key topics include the measurement of directions, position reference systems, great circle and rhumb line navigation, measurement of distance, magnetism and compasses,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpl-atpl-general-navigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibexaviation.com\/pilot-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibexaviation.com\/pilot-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibexaviation.com\/pilot-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibexaviation.com\/pilot-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibexaviation.com\/pilot-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ibexaviation.com\/pilot-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16711,"href":"https:\/\/ibexaviation.com\/pilot-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15315\/revisions\/16711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibexaviation.com\/pilot-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibexaviation.com\/pilot-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibexaviation.com\/pilot-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}