Aerial Navigation-Radio AIDS

Duration: 0:28:00

Year Published: 1943

Creator: United States Signal Corps: Publisher

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Animation, actual views, and charts show and explain the radio beam and how deviations from the beam give either the A (.-) or the N (-.) sound. There is a detailed explanation of the twilight zones of radio beams and of the bi-signal zones. Discussion of the cone of silence, the false cone of silence, and cone marker, and interpretations of the various sounds used in aircraft navigation. The five most common errors in navigating with a radio beam are illustrated and discussed. The utilization of weather reports, radio compasses, directional antennae, and the automatic compass.

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