how are airplanes navigated?
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a variety of different ways. there are vhf transmitters all over the world for navigation. satellite navigation is becoming more popular. all aircraft in the u.s. are also equipped with a plain old compass also.
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Adaptation of flight.
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it's not navigatable, it's navigable.\n\n   1. Sufficiently deep or wide to provide passage for vessels: navigable waters; a navigable river.\n   2. That can be steered. Used of boats, ships, or aircraft.\n\nadj : able to be sailed on or through safely; "navigable waters"; "a navigable channel"
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I usually soar without flapping my arms. However, I have found that I have very little control over where I fly. Often, I'm trying to get to a specific place that I cannot reach. I can usually see it, but don't know how to get there. It's usually windy and there is often a lot of resistance to the route I'm trying to take. Only once have I had an uninhibited flight in my dream. It was very exhilarating.
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As far as the commercial airjets are concerned they do not carry radar.  The air traffic controllers track the aircraft on radar and ensure that planes are flying far enough behind the plane in front, and are not in the path of another plane.\n\nThe lights are on planes so that you can tell which direction the planes are traveling.  One side is red the other is green, depending on which light is on your left side, you can tell if the plane is flying to you or away from you.  The tail light also helps.  It will not allow you to avoid collisions, just to give you an idea of the direction planes around you are flying.\n\nAnd believe me, once you get above the cloud deck and flying at night, those lights can be seen for miles.  It's actually worse flying during the day, because you can't see the planes as well.\n\nIf you are travelling by plane (private) past a certain distance you have to file a flight plan, so that the air traffic controllers know your coming and can keep track of you during your flight, and keep all other flights away from you.\n\nAir collisions are actually very rare.  Lights do not prevent air collisions, air traffic controllers do.  They have a high stress job, but it's a very important job.
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drive, or fly, which ever you perfer
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Here an awesome site, you'll see everything you need to know\n\nhttp://travel.howstuffworks.com/airplane.htm
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For a simple answer look up how a plane propeller works.
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Cockpit, Air, Sky, or  are we taking country?
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Pilots have to adjust their flight paths to compensate for the Coriolis effect.  This is something we can calculate.
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This is not a big deal. How did they draw the world map, when there was no aircraft?.
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Tactical Aid to Navigation (TACAN) and VHF Omni-directional TACAN  use radio signals to transmit directional and distance information to aircraft for navigational purposes.  This signal is on a single frequency for each aid, and is set into the aircraft's receiver by the crew.
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At this point, that's like asking how to guide the Hindenburg in for a safe landing.
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go to Metrarail.com\n\nyou can get point to point directions for buses, trains and the "L"
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It's called an aileron. It's a flap on both wings. If the plane wants to turn left (technically, roll left), the left aileron goes up and the right aileron goes down.\n\nAlso, the rudder on the tail controls the yaw. It acts basically like a boat rudder.\n\nIn case you were wondering, roll is the rotation of the plane on an axis going through the cabin. Yaw is the actual turning of the plane. Both must be used to turn smoothly, otherwise you'll have spilt drinks everywhere.
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of course you can. but the air traffic control guys are trying to keep them as far away as they can. ususlly in landing and take off you can see othe planes near by doing their final approach or trying to establish their cours.\non the other hand if you live near an airport you can see that there are specific paths according the waether that all planes follow in order to land or take off. sometime they form a line one brhind the other always in safe and large distance.\n\nnow the sky is defined mostly by volume and not area as roads do. there is too much space to "push tin"..\nnonehteless there are certain areas in the world where air traffic is huge especailly during holidays.
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There is nothing aerodinamical that will prevent airplanes from flying directly over the pole, yet airlines in routes such as New York-Hong Kong take a small detour when going over the pole.  The reason is not to mess with avionics and guidance systems (at the pole all directions are South and computers may react in unintended ways). The concerns are similar to those about the year 2K issues back in the year 2000.