Explore: Instrument Orientation

includes some instruments necessary for IFR flight). VFR pilots may use cockpit instruments as secondary aids to navigation and orientation, but are not

horizon or artificial horizon, is a flight instrument that informs the pilot of the aircraft orientation relative to Earth's horizon, and gives an immediate

Arab System of Nautical Orientation", Arabica, vol. 27 (2), pp. 180–92. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pelorus (instrument). Bowditch Online See

type of musical instrument called a handpan, fitting into the idiophone class and based on the Trinidad & Tobago steelpan instrument. It was created by

Navigational instruments are instruments used by nautical navigators and pilots as tools of their trade. The purpose of navigation is to ascertain the

the Arctic daily, and most of Canada every 72 hours depending on instrument orientation and mode. It covered the entire Earth every 24 days. On 29 March

allow measurements to be made with any instrument orientation. Owing to the size and weight of the instrument, attention was paid to balancing it so that

space. It is used with a variety of instruments (including levels, theodolites, and steel tapes) to set the instrument exactly over a fixed survey marker

musical instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is crafted from a single block of wood with a hollow resonator. The instrument has three

A kamal, often called simply khashaba (wood in Arabic), is a celestial navigation device that determines latitude. The invention of the kamal allowed for