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Best Navigation Practices

Navigation best practice (planning and flying) has recently come under the spotlight due to continuing airspace infringements and poor radio telephony (R/T) skills.

  • 6 lessons
  • Course exam
  • 1 certificate
  • For student pilots

The course

What you'll learn

Various organisations such as GASCo, AOPA and NATS have initiatives to help alleviate this problem aimed at pilots, students and instructors.

Right here, we have consolidated into one place below what we consider to be best practice for Navigation, including the use of GPS Moving Map devices. We use SkyDemon in this course as an example.

We don't just tell you the best practices, but also the reasoning behind those practices. We believe that if you understand the reasoning, you'll be more likely to both remember and use those practices in your everyday flight planning.

At the end of this course, you will have a thorough grounding in the relevant aspects of the subject matter that you will use in your everyday flying.

To prove you have completed the course, after you have successfully passed our on-line exam, you will be issued with a Course Completion Certificate.

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What's included

Everything you need, in one place

  • 6 lessons203 illustrated slides, at your own pace, picking up where you left off.
  • Course examTimed, exam-style questions, so the real exam holds no surprises.
  • Certificate of completionYours when you pass the course exam.
  • Kept up to dateUp-to-date material that stays up to date.
  • Study anywhereOn your computer, tablet or phone.

Course contents

6 lessons, step by step

  1. 1Introduction and Charts40 slides
  2. 2Route, Flight and Communications Planning34 slides
  3. 3Practical Navigation, Diversions and Lost Procedures46 slides
  4. 4GPS Moving Map Devices66 slides
  5. 5Controlled Airspace Transits and Communications12 slides
  6. 6Course Exam5 slides

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  • The course exam
  • 1 certificate
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