1977 National Aerospace Meeting Proceedings
April 13-14, 1977
Denver, Colorado
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AN OVERVIEW OF VIKING NAVIGATION by William J. O’Nell 1
NAVIGATING THE VIKING LANDERS by Edward A. Euler 9
AN AUTONOMOUS SATELLITE NAVIGATION AND ATTITUDE REFERENCE SYSTEM by
Arno C. Serold, Lawrence N. Bundy and John W. Schlemmer 14
A PRECISION SENSOR FOR SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION AND ATTITUDE DETERMINATION by William J. Owen and Robert A. Booker 22
UNITED’S EXPERIENCE WITH COMPUTER GENERATED VISUAL SYSTEMS by G. V. McCulloch 28
RNAV WAYPOINT CHARTING EFFECTS ON PILOT PROCEDURES, TRAINING AND WORKLOAD by
Richard Adams and Paul Rich 31
TERMINAL AREA CHARTING FOR AREA NAVIGATION OPERATIONS by Edwin D. McConkey 38
FUEL CONSERVATION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE AIRCRAFT IN THE TERMINAL AREA by
Satish C. Mohieji 43
JEPPESEN CHARTING FOR AREA NAVIGATION by James E. Terpstra 47
PROBING THE AIRBORNE OMEGA ENVIRONMENT by Joseph J. Scavullo 53
AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION WITH THE LIMITED OPERATIONAL PHASE OF THE NAVSTAR GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM by Leonard R. Kruczynski 59
HELICOPTER OFFSHORE OPERATIONS by William T. Kuhar and George H. Quinn. 69
OMEGA SYSTEM PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS by A. D. Thompson 72
VLF PULSE TIMING: LIMITATIONS AND POTENTIAL AS A COMPANION TO OMEGA by
R. Grover Brown 82
Annex A A-1
PREFACE
The National Aerospace Meeting was held at Stouffer’s Denver Inn, Colorado on 13 and 14 April, 1977.
On 13 April Brig. Gen. R. A. Duffy, USAF (Ret.), President of The ION opened the meeting with appropriate remarks.
The First Session was on Space Navigation and was chaired by James S. Martin, Jr., Vice President of Advanced Programs and Planning, Martin Marietta Aerospace. Mr. Martin gave a most interesting presentation on the Mars landing with a number of slides.
The Chairman of the Second Session was Dr. Navin Jerath, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His session was followed by a tour of the United Air Lines Training Facility.
At the banquet on 13 April the speaker was I4ervyn M. Martin, Director, FAA, Rocky Mountain Region, who gave a most interesting talk.
On 14 April the Chairman of Session III was George Quinn, FAA, and the subject was RNAV, Charting and New
Training Procedures.
The speaker at the luncheon on 14 April was the Director of Flight and Procedures of VAL.
Session IV was chaired by Tom Angelos of United Air Lines and the subject was "New Navigation System Requirements and Developments".
In addition to our warm thanks to all the Speakers and Chairmen, The Institute wishes to express its appreciation to Jeppesen-Sanderson Co., Martin Marietta Aerospace, and United Air Lines, all of whom supported the meeting.
The Technical Chairman was Alexander B. Winick, Consultant, and members of the Technical Coimnittee were George Quinn, FM and Tom Angelos, UAL.
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