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The Requirement for Precise Navigation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1950

G. E. Bell
Affiliation:
(Ministry of Civil Aviation)

Extract

Before considering in any detail the importance of precise navigation to air traffic control, or attempting to define the word ‘precise’ in this context, it seems desirable to go back to fundamentals and consider certain essential characteristics of a volume of traffic flowing between individual pairs of airports in a system comprising a large number of such airports, randomly distributed and heavily loaded.

Type
Air Traffic Control
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1950

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