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AMISAFE

Attitude

Medication

Illness

Stress

Alcohol

Fatigue

Eat

CRM/SRM

Crew/Single pilot Resource Management

Pilotage

Following Landmarks

Dead Reckoning

Deduced reckoning, what heading with the wind

Prime Meridian

line of longitude 0 through Greenwich

International Date Line

180 opposite prime meridian

Great Circle

line dividing sphere in half, shortest route

Rhumb Line

cuts all meridians at same angle, same heading but not most efficient

variation

angle between true and magnetic north

Isogonic lines

chart lines joining points of equal variation.

Agonic linesjoining points of 0 variation 

magnetic deviation

angular error in a compass, from plane

Mercator Projection

can around earth, accurate at equator

Transverse Mercator Projection

sideways can around earth, accurate scale where touching globe

Lamberts Conformal Conic Projection

cone over globe, uniform scale, straight line is a great circle