An Operational Evaluation of Omega for Civil Aviation Oceanic Navigation.

摘要

Interest in Omega navigation for satisfying oceanic air navigation requirements is rapidly increasing. In particular,Omega is under serious consideration by major airlines as a Loran-A replacement. This report describes a flight evaluation program performed from August 1975to September 1976on oceanic routes to Central and South America,and over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The primary objective of this work was to determine the operational reliability and suitability of Omega navigation for satisfying oceanic air navigation requirements. More than 300hours of data were gathered,including data on the new stations Liberia,La Reunion,and Argentina. Omega was found to be a satisfactory Loran-A replacement,with adequate signal strengths and geometries in most areas evaluated. (Author)