The following discussion took place at an open session of the Technical Committee held at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on 19 January 1972 with Mr. H. E. Smith in the Chair.The Chairman: Relative navigation has a wide connotation, but for the purpose of our discussion it may be applied firstly to aircraft management in the positive or passive sense, arising from an air-to-air navigational interrogation capability, and secondly to the means whereby this capability may be realized.
