Radio lateral direction finding

With relative bearing (engl. Relative bearing , RB) is used in the radio navigation , the angle between the aircraft longitudinal axis and the radio base line , d. H. of the plane - ground transmitter line , measured clockwise.

Specifying the RB alone is not enough to determine where the aircraft is on the line to the ground station. This requires a further bearing ( cross bearing ).

The specification RB 180 ° means, for example, that the received ground station is located exactly behind the aircraft. With an RB 090 ° the station is on the right abeam of the aircraft. A RB 360 ° means that the station is exactly ahead in the direction of the aircraft's longitudinal axis.

literature

• Jeppesen Sanderson - Private Pilot Study Guide 2000, ISBN 0-88487-265-3
• Jeppesen Sanderson - Privat Pilot Manual 2001, ISBN 0-88487-238-6
• Jürgen Mies - radio navigation 1999, ISBN 3-613-01648-6
• Peter Dogan - The Instrument Flight Training Manual 1999, ISBN 0-916413-26-8
• Walter Air - CVFR textbook , Mariensiel 2001
• Wolfgang Kühr - The private pilot , flight navigation , Verlag Friedrich Schiffmann, Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-921270-05-7