Advanced Pilot Training - US AAF TM 1-205: Air Navigation
This part of the "Advanceds
Pilot Training"
is taken from a contemporary training manual being
used by the US AAC/AAF in Basic and Advanced Flight Training.
The title of the book is: Technical Manual No. 1-205, Air Navigation,
Prepared under direction of the Chief of the Air Corps, War Department,
Washington, November 25, 1940.
This booklet has seen a number of revisions over time of course. However, only the basic skills and requirements for air navigation are given. Navigators in Bombers, Transports and Recon Aircraft had a whole lot more to learn, as can be found in the "Navigator Information Files" (NIF).
Only a part of TM 1-205 will be published here.
However, the parts published here are required reading as an engredient of the contemporary training Syllabus for Flying Cadets.
It is very interesting to see, how navigation and blind - or instrument - flying became a very prominent part of pilot training in allied air services over time. Not only for the multi crew bomber type aircraft, but for the single seater fighters as well.
CHAPTER 1. Pilotage and elementary dead reckoning.
SECTION I. General
III. Time, direction, and bearing
IV. Compasses and compass errors
VII. Elementary dead reckoning
VIII. Federal aids to navigation.
IX. Air traffic rules
XI. Radius of action problem.
CHAPTER 2. Precision dead reckoning and radio navigation.
SECTION I. General
II Maps and charts
III Instruments and equipment
IV Alinement, compensation, and calibration of instruments
V Wind and ground speed.
VI Bearings and fixes
VII Dead reckoning procedure
VIII. Precision dead reckoning applied to radius of action, intercept, search, and patrol.
IX Flyings
X Radio navigation as applied by precision navigator
APPENDIX I. Nomenclature of air navigation ........
II. Bibliography ....
