AIRBORNE NAVIGATIONAL RECORDERS

John C. Bellamy

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Abstract:	In considering problems of recording navigational data, the first question to be answered is: Why should such data be recorded? If the navigational problem is considered to be one of merely determining the position of the aircraft at each moment during a flight, it might be argued that continuous indications of such information to the pilot (human or robot) would suffice. This argument is not well received by most navigators, or pilot-navigators, however, since this presupposes that completely reliable automatic navigational computers or radio aids are operative at all times, and that there is no need of keeping a flight log or of having a capability of falling back on dead reckoning techniques in the event of failure of the automatic position indicating devices.
Published in:	NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation, Volume 3, Number 6
Pages:	182 - 188
Cite this article:	Bellamy, John C., "AIRBORNE NAVIGATIONAL RECORDERS", NAVIGATION: Journal of The Institute of Navigation, Vol. 3, No. 6, 1952, pp. 182-188.
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