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IFR environments and include in the context that most affects navigation systems and satellite
flight instruments, aerodynamics, aviation practitioners. Finally, the based global navigation systems.
performance, navigation, weather safety, technical and economic/
(analysis and decision making), and commercial regulation of aviation AVS 350 - Flight Navigation Lab
chart. will be examined, with particular Credit Hour: 1
focus on rules affecting international Prerequisite: None
AVS 209 - Aerodynamics carriage by air, airline operations, Co-requisite: AVS 350
Credit Hours: 3 airport operations, and air traffic
Prerequisite: GES 201 + MTT 101 management. The course provides an insight into
principles of navigation, which the
Students are provided with AVS 310 - Aircraft Performance air transport industry is using to
an opportunity to explore Credit Hours: 3 provide a safe, precise and timely
incompressible flow airfoil theory and Prerequisite: AVS 211 service and minimizing adverse
wing theory. Topics center on stall effects of weather. Global Navigation
speed, drag and basic performance This course explores the Systems and radio navigational aids
criteria, configuration changes, performance of aircraft powered by have enhanced the performance
high and low speed conditions, turboprop and jet engines. Topics of flight operations over the past
special flight conditions and an covered include performance decades. This has a huge impact
introduction to compressible flow. associated with various phases of to the efficiency on the entire air
Further, this course is designed to flight, speeds, variables and the transport system. Topics covered
provide students with the technical impact of aerodrome limitations include basic principles of navigation,
background necessary to understand on aircraft performance. Further, Earth’s shape, coordinate system,
the operating limitations and this course of study will provide the magnetism, aeronautical charts. The
procedures of modern airplanes student with an understanding of navigation systems addressed in
and to optimize pilot technique by the performance characteristics detail are inertial navigation, radio
properly defining required tasks. of modern reciprocating, turbo- navigation systems and satellite
prop, and/or jet-powered airplanes. based global navigation systems.
AVS 211 - Aircraft Jet Engines Students will acquire a knowledge
Credit Hours: 3 of weight and balance; takeoff AVS 287 - Crew Resource
Management
Prerequisite: GES 201 + AVS 120 and cruise control; and airplane
performance charts and curves, Credit Hours: 3
This course aims to cover the from which they will extract data that Prerequisite: None
fundamental theory and operating maximize performance.
principles of aircraft gas turbine This course provides a
engines. Topics covered include AVS 350 - Flight Navigation comprehensive study of the
history, various types, construction Credit Hours: 3 organizational behavior,
and design, systems and Prerequisite: MTT 101 + AV S120 interpersonal relationships skills,
maintenance. The course concludes Co-requisite: AVS 350L behavioral aspects associated with
by applying theoretical knowledge in professional flight crews. Although
a more detailed analysis of a typical The course provides an insight into the course is targeted at future airline
commercial aircraft’s engines. principles of navigation, which the pilots, the course provides a platform
air transport industry is using to for understanding the dynamics
AVS 254 - Aviation Law provide a safe, precise and timely of crew management within the
Credit Hours: 3 service and minimizing adverse entire airline operating environment
Prerequisite: AVS 101 effects of weather. Global Navigation (including maintenance personnel,
Systems and radio navigational aids ground crew and cabin crew). The
This course reviews the historic have enhanced the performance course uses previous CRM knowledge
developments that laid the of flight operations over the past developed during flight training.
foundation of aviation law and decades. This has a huge impact Topics covered include the nature of
outlines present-day sources of to the efficiency on the entire air CRM, CRM training applications, CRM
public and private international transport system. Topics covered Perspectives and the future of CRM.
aviation law such as the Chicago, include basic principles of navigation, Theory is complimented with studies
Montreal, and Cape Town Earth’s shape, coordinate system, of recent cases citing CRM as critical
conventions. The various legal magnetism, aeronautical charts. The to its outcome.
systems and classifications of law navigation systems addressed in
around the world will be explained detail are inertial navigation, radio

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