The Chart Clinic– Database Series Jeppesen（图表系列Jeppesen诊所u2014u2014数据库）.pdf

The Chart Clinic – Database Series than 270. The longer the airway, the greater ation industry. But, the question is a loaded one the difference. when it comes to databases. The second reason for the difference can usually be When the first avionics systems and databases were associated with the station declination (magnetic originally designed, no one believed there would variation) of the VORs at each end of the airway. ever be a need to have an NDB in the database for If the situation of a north-south airway where the navigation. After all, the signals are not clean and true bearings at each VOR were reciprocals of smooth, they don’t emit defined radials, and they each other, the magnetic radials would not be the have no DME signals from the NDB. same unless the two VORs had exactly the same BY JAMES E. TERPSTRA station declination. The first databases included only the NDB locations, SR. CORPORATE VICE PRESIDENT, JEPPESEN