ATPL General Navigation

General Navigation gives the best return in the ATPL. It is also the paper candidates run out of time in. 55 questions. 2 hours 15 minutes. 75% to pass. Subject 061 asks 117 learning objectives for 55 marks — about two objectives per mark, the best ratio in the series. Almost all of it is calculation, and every calculation has its mirror image among the options: variation applied the wrong way, convergency where the conversion angle was wanted. Most marks in this subject are lost to a sign, not to ignorance. ATPL General Navigation is a complete revision guide and question bank for the EASA and UK CAA airline transport pilot licence theory examination, written by an airline captain and Chief Flight Instructor, and built on all 117 learning objectives for Subject 061. It uses the methods the examination marks. EASA publishes the mental dead reckoning techniques its questions are keyed to. This book teaches them exactly as published, and works every calculation on the navigation computer as well. What is inside Where the marks are, on one page: one topic, Basics of navigation, carries 28 of the 55 marks, and the book gives it six chapters. 283 practice questions with worked explanations — 228 through the chapters, plus a 55-question mock examination paper weighted exactly as the real paper is. No question is asked twice. The confusable pairs and Traps, and why they work in every chapter: variation and deviation, convergency and conversion angle. On the day. One flight per chapter, in the order the problems come up. 83 clear diagrams drawn for this book: the triangle of velocities, the 1-in-60 rule, and the Mercator, Lambert and polar stereographic projections. Its own data, consistent throughout: an example jet, charts, a deviation card and an almanac extract, so that you practise the technique you will use on the examination's own annexes. Every figure sourced, in Numbers you must own**. A glossary and a 218-entry index. ** Ten chapters covering the whole syllabus: the Earth, position and distance; direction; airspeed and wind components; the triangle of velocities; dead reckoning and the flight log; the climb and descent; visual navigation; great circles, rhumb lines and convergency; charts and projections; and time, sunrise and sunset. Written for the paper you are actually sitting. The book follows the 2020 objectives as EASA prepared them for the 2026 question bank. Inertial navigation moved to Subject 022 in 2020 and is not padded into the book. Beyond the EU and UK. Written to the EASA ATPL(A) learning objectives, which also underpin the ATPL theory examinations of the United Arab Emirates (GCAA), Qatar (QCAA), Oman, Türkiye (SHGM), Singapore (CAAS), Malaysia (CAAM), Hong Kong (CAD), Sri Lanka (CAASL), Thailand (CAAT) and Pakistan (PCAA). A page at the front shows the paper this book serves with each authority and what to add from local sources. It also serves the related SACAA (South Africa) and DGCA (India) papers. A revision guide, not a course of training: enrolment with an Approved Training Organisation remains a legal prerequisite. It contains no questions from any question bank — every question was written for this book. Its charts, tables and aeroplane data were made to teach a method and must not be used for navigation. One of fourteen books in the Mastering ATPL series, one for each ATPL(A) theory subject, all written to the same pattern.