Area navigation
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area-navigation-162-5386973
title:
Area navigation
text:
Area navigation is a method of instrument flight rules (IFR) navigation that allows an aircraft to choose any course within a network of navigation beacons, rather than navigate directly to and from the beacons. This can conserve flight distance, reduce congestion, and allow flights into airports without beacons. Area navigation used to be called "random navigation", hence the acronym RNAV. RNAV can be defined as a method of navigation that permits aircraft operation on any desired course within
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Aircraft navigation method
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_navigation
date created:
2006-04-29T20:40:48Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T18:37:14Z
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