diff --git a/docs/subjects/061-gnav/dead-reckoning/index.md b/docs/subjects/061-gnav/dead-reckoning/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b7c0abd --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/subjects/061-gnav/dead-reckoning/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Dead Reckoning + +_TODO_ diff --git a/docs/subjects/062-rnav/dme/index.md b/docs/subjects/062-rnav/dme/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06276ec --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/subjects/062-rnav/dme/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# DME - Distance Measuring Equipment + +_TODO_ diff --git a/docs/subjects/062-rnav/ils/index.md b/docs/subjects/062-rnav/ils/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5db0fcf --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/subjects/062-rnav/ils/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# ILS - Instrument Landing System + +_TODO_ diff --git a/docs/subjects/062-rnav/index.md b/docs/subjects/062-rnav/index.md index 0e001d6..2c414ae 100644 --- a/docs/subjects/062-rnav/index.md +++ b/docs/subjects/062-rnav/index.md @@ -4,4 +4,21 @@ icon: lucide/radio-tower # Radio Navigation -_TODO_ +In radio navigation, we're learning [what radio waves are] and how they are being used to guide pilots in the air. + +For over 100 years now, we are using radio navigation aids in aviation to find our way through the sky. Before that, +the only means to navigate were following visual landmarks, using [dead reckoning] or celestial navigation. Whilst +most aircraft still found their way from A to B this way, these kinds of navigation are not as precise as well as +dependant on the weather conditions. The need for navigation systems that are not subject to these disadvantages +soon became necessary. + +What first started with simple radio beacons, which were used to home back to the airfield (predecessors of the +[NDB], which is still in use today), soon brought up more complex systems like the [VOR], [DME] and [ILS] that +help us fly precisely both high up in the sky as well as close to the ground every single day. + +[what radio waves are]: ./radio-waves/index.md +[dead reckoning]: ../061-gnav/dead-reckoning/index.md +[NDB]: ./ndb/index.md +[VOR]: ./vor/index.md +[DME]: ./dme/index.md +[ILS]: ./ils/index.md diff --git a/docs/subjects/062-rnav/ndb/index.md b/docs/subjects/062-rnav/ndb/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba24759 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/subjects/062-rnav/ndb/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# NDB - Non-Directional Beacon + +_TODO_ diff --git a/docs/subjects/062-rnav/radio-waves/index.md b/docs/subjects/062-rnav/radio-waves/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e1c35a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/subjects/062-rnav/radio-waves/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# What is a radio wave? + +_TODO_ diff --git a/docs/subjects/062-rnav/vor/index.md b/docs/subjects/062-rnav/vor/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6467bf7 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/subjects/062-rnav/vor/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# VOR - VHF Omnidirectional Range + +_TODO_