Difference between Navigation and Piloting

What is the difference between Navigation and Piloting?

Navigation as a noun is the theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or a spaceship while Piloting as a noun is the form of navigation in which position is determined by relation to external reference points

Navigation

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or a spaceship Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping A canal

Example sentence: Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.

Piloting

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To control (an aircraft or watercraft).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the form of navigation in which position is determined by relation to external reference points

We hope you now know whether to use Navigation or Piloting in your sentence.

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