Decca Omnitrac installation provides for pilot pictorial display on which present position and track of aircraft is continuously plotted; system uses Dectra, Loran C, and Doppler for long range overwater flights, and Decca, VOR/DME and Doppler for short range flights; automatic guidance through autopilot along any selected flight path is included; display provides marked advance in reducing cockpit workload by showing aircraft position on chart, thus eliminating mental effort in estimating position; safety is improved by clearly plotting relationship of aircraft to known geographical hazards; accuracies in order of few miles have been observed on transatiantic flights.


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    Titel :

    Decca/Omnitrac experience -- Seaboard world airlines


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    SAE -- Paper


    Beteiligte:
    Farrah, J.T. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    SAE Meeting ; 1968 Automatic pilots



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1968


    Format / Umfang :

    8 pages


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    Decca/Omnitrac Experience — Seaboard World Airlines

    Farrah, Jere T. | SAE Technical Papers | 1968


    Loran or Decca?

    Payne, M. | Tema Archiv | 1990


    Decca navigator progress

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1951