avigation

Avigation is navigation in the air or skies.

Avigation is a specialized term used in the context of aircraft and spacecraft. Avigation involves measuring and monitoring a craft’s location, angle, and speed using tools like GPS, Inertial Reference Systems (IRS), and radio avigation systems. 

Navigation is often used interchangeably with avigation, especially in everyday conversations.

Avigation can also be used to describe the actions of flocks of birds determining where to fly or migrate, although this is rare.

Example: Vivek passed his first flight exam, but his avigation skills were still weak.

Avigation combines the combining form avi-, meaning “bird,” and navigation, meaning “the act or process of navigating.”

What are some other forms related to avigation?

• avigator (noun)

What are some synonyms for avigation?

• aerial navigation

What are some words that share a root or word element with avigation? 

• aviation
• navigation
• avian
• aviary
• aviator

What are some words that often get used in discussing avigation?

• airplane
• airspeed
• direction
• flight
• mapping

What are some words avigation may be commonly confused with?

• navigation

Avigation is a specialized term that is rarely used outside of the context of air travel.

THE #VIKINGS TRAVERSE the dark side of the moon.

Apollo control Houston, standing by with anxiety. Six hundred and sixty nautical miles.

Go no go, go.

Continue avigation Apollo 8. All systems go. Data examined, set appearance.

We are go, I repeat we are go.

[weeping]#vss365

— et al. (@botanicalalien) April 12, 2019

A fav from John Adams (abbr): I must study politics & war that my sons (& daughters!) may study math & philosophy, they ought to study math & phil, geog, natural history, avigation, commerce, & agri so their kidos may study painting, poetry, music, arch, statuary/arts

— J Box-Steffensmeier (@jboxstef) May 15, 2018

Selectmen approve a grant for an avigation easement project at Mansfield Municipal Airport for trimming trees along the runway.

— Sun Chron Mansfield (@SCMansfield) October 17, 2013

 

True or False?

Avigation includes monitoring how many people are on board the aircraft.