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Code - Course Title	PLT247 - General Navigation
Course Type	Required Courses
Language of Instruction	Türkçe
Laboratory + Practice	5+0
ECTS	5.0
Course Instructor(s)	TAMER SAVAŞ
Mode of Delivery	The mode of delivery of this course is Face-to-face
Prerequisites	There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
Courses Recomended	None
Recommended Reading List
Assessment methods and criteria	It’s based on Eskişehir Technical Univesity Faculty of Aeronatutics and Astronautics Flight Traning Departmant education and examination regulation.
Work Placement	Not Applicable
Sustainability Development Goals

Weeks	Topics
Week - 1	Factors, Featuresand Types of Genaral Navigation
Week - 2	The Solar System
Week - 3	The Earth, Great Circle, Rhumb Line
Week - 4	Latitude, longitude and their differences
Week - 5	Time, Types of Time and Conversion of time to Arc and vice versa
Week - 6	Dead Reckoning, Main factors of Dead Reckoning; Directions, Altitute, Time, distance and Types of Speed
Week - 7	Magnetism and Compasses
Week - 8	Direction, Kinds of Direction, Variation, Deviation, Calculating Direction, Variation and Deviation
Week - 9	Distance and Calculating Distance, Earth convergency
Week - 10	Plotting, Conversion from one unit to another, Overtake proplems, Calculating Critical Point/ Point of safe return
Week - 11	Calculating Climb, Calculating rate of decent, calculating time and distance to station, Wind velocity/drift and off track corrections
Week - 12	Projections of Chart/Map, Charts, Scale, Representive Fraction
Week - 13	Using of flight computer ; Calculating of front side
Week - 14	Using of flight computer ; Calculating of rear/ the wind side of slide

Assessment Method and Passing Requirements
	Quamtity	Percentage (%)
1.Midterm Exam	1	40
Final Exam	1	60
Toplam (%)		100