✅ Navigating is easier and safer when you truly understand how it works. This enjoyably readable, in-the-cockpit guide helps you build that base of understanding, without pain.

✅ Written by flight instructor/mathematician/computer expert/teacher James S. Wolper, Understanding Mathematics for Aircraft Navigation helps you handle-and grasp-every aspect of getting from here to there, determining where you are now, taking full advantage of today’s sophisticated navigation equipment, and even using ancient celestial methods in an emergency.

✅ Even if you’re math-phobic, Wolper has a way of making the principles of navigation so simple and interesting you’ll wonder why no one ever presented them this way before.

✅ This book steers you from the celestial to the electronic with nary a hitch. Along the way, you’ll build skills with geometry, chart-making, and long-distance flight planning, plus computer and instrument use.

✅ In the end, you’ll have an unshakable foundation in navigation-and will even be able to explain it to the unenlightened.

FEATURES INCLUDE:

✅ Step-by-step narrative approach to navigation skills and judgment

✅ Complete introduction to magnetic compass use

✅ Flight planning-including long distance-fully explained

✅ Chart construction and use

✅ How-to’s on GPS (and other navigation systems)-plus how they work

✅ Memorable, time-saving rules of thumb

✅ In-your-head calculation tricks

✅ Complete discussion of the Earth’s shape

✅ Perfect for beginning and advanced pilots