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This chapter presents on-board systems for efficient, effective, and safe navigation, or which may impact the flight trajectory. It presents how human pilots and automated systems cooperate to solve three essential tasks: flying the aircraft, monitoring the systems, and navigation. Although navigation is the lowest in the priority order, it relies on the first two and depends on the human machine interface. A structured analysis of the automation layers of a modern commercial airplane is presented next. As aviation safety is included in navigation, the alerting systems are presented further. The alerting systems may also impact the flight trajectory.
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Pleter, O.T. (2024). Aircraft. In: Air Navigation. Springer Aerospace Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52994-8_7
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