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Practical Navigation over the North Atlantic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

D. C. Willis
Affiliation:
(Trans-Canada Airlines)

Extract

This paper, which gives a useful description of the procedures used by one transatlantic operator, was presented in Montreal at a meeting of the Canadian Institute of Navigation held on 7 December 1955. Many of the methods discussed are referred to in the preceding three papers.

1. Any discussion of today's long-range navigational practices and problems seems to lead inevitably to pressure-pattern and jet-stream flying. The reason might well be that during recent years the more important practical developments appear to have concerned techniques rather than aids or instruments.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1956

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References

REFERENCE

1Peel, R. (1953). The use of pressure pattern flying by T.C.A. This Journal, 6, 15.Google Scholar