B.Sc. (Aviation) Air Navigation VI Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

This is the University's syllabus for B.Sc. (Aviation) under the Credit Based Semester and Grading System, approved by the Academic Council on 7 April 2014 and in force from the academic year 2014-15. It is the scheme Mumbai University still examines this degree on: her Winter 2025 and Summer 2026 third-year timetables both name “CBSGS”.

This degree is examined in four theory subjects a semester and one practical the University does not publish a syllabus for: Flying Experience / Flying Check, 4 credits, up to the fifth semester. MU’s own note reads “In Sixth Semester there is no flying. Flying is replaced by project work.” Her Regulation R.8389 gives 4 credits for every 40 hours flown, R.8390 sets a minimum of 200 hours of flying training to obtain a Commercial Pilot Licence, and R.8388 awards the B.Sc. (Aviation) degree only when a verified CPL is submitted to the University.

A student admitted from 2011-12 onwards who does not complete the Flying Practical is awarded “Bachelor of Aviation Science” instead of “Bachelor of Science (Aviation)”, and for those students the Flying Practical and its credits are removed from the first and second year. University of Mumbai Circular No. 320 of 2021, dated 23 September 2021, following the Academic Council meetings of 3 October 2019, 23 July 2020, 5 September 2020, 11 January 2021 and 23 February 2021.

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Syllabus for Air Navigation VI

Semester 6 · TY BSc Aviation · 5 credits

Module 1

1 Calculation of Payload SHIFTED FROM SEM 5 UNIT (3)
2 Holding Patterns Identification of Sectors, Procedure for Joining the Holding Pattern, Holding Procedure with correction for leg timing and Drift due to wind
3 Low Visibility Operations Requirements to be fulfilled for low visibility operations, ILS, CAT I, CAT II and CAT III operations, conditions for approval of low visibility take‐off operations

Module II

4 Minimum Navigation performance specification airspace (MNPSA) Introduction, Considerations, Transoceanic navigation problems
5 Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM) Aeroplane requirements, navigation system requirements, and serviceability, NAT tracks, OTS track designation, OTS changeover, Track message (TM), Track message identifier, Track routings, allocation of Flight levels
6 Search and Rescue ADDED DUE TO MODERN ADVANCEMENT IN AVIATION Definitions – Alert Phase, Distress Phase, Emergency Phase, Operator, Pilot‐in‐command (PIC), Rescue co‐ordination centre (RCC), State of Registry, Uncertainty phase, Establishment and provision of SAR Service, co‐operation between states, operating procedures, communication with survivors, signals with surface aircraft, SAR signals, Ground air visual signal code for use by survivors, air to ground signals, types of searches

Module III

7 Inertial Navigation System Introduction, Basic principles, Accelerometer and integrators, Effects of gravity on Accelerometer, Integrating Gyroscope, Platform , Earth orientation, Apparent wander, Alignment of the system, Schuler period, Errors of INS, INS control and display panels, LED display, Manual and automatic system checks
8 Inertial Reference System Introduction, Primary source of information, laser gyro, principles of laser gyros and IRS, construction and operation, limitations and accuracy, platform/strap down principles, platform alignment, advantages
9 Aircraft Performance SHIFTED FROM SEM V (UNIT 2) Definitions – Alternate airport, accelerate‐stop distance available (ASDA), take‐off run available(TORA), Take off Distance available (TODA), balanced field, calibrated airspeed, ceiling, climb gradient, clearway, critical engine, density altitude, equivalent airspeed, stopway, runway slope, unaccelerated flight, available distance for take‐off, Dry, Wet and Contaminated runway, Obstacle clearance altitude height (OCA/H), Decision altitude/Height (DA/H), Minimum Descent Altitude/Height (MDA/H), Runway Visual Range (RVR)

Reference Books

1 Air Pilot’s Manual Vol 3 & 5 Peter D Godwin
2 Flight Performance & Planning Nordian AS
3 General Navigation: ATPL JAR Nordian AS
4 GSP : Plotting & Flight Planning Underdown
5 GSP : Radio Aids Underdown
6 GSP : Flight Instr. & Auto Flt. Underdown
7 Range & Endurance Hitchens
8 Radio Navigation ATPL JAR Nordian AS
9 DGCA Ops Circular 06/1999 Aerodrome Operating Minima
10 DGCA Ops Circular 07/2010 Operational Procedures and Trg Reqts for ACAS Eqpt
11 CAR Air Operations Series B Pt I ILS CAT II/IIIA/B Operations
12 CAR Air Operations Series O Pt 11 Requirements for implementation of RVSM
13 CAR Air Operations Series O Pt XII PBN, Airworthiness, Operational and Trg

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Aviation) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2014-15. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

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