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Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. (ASA) develops and markets aviation supplies, software, and books for pilots, flight instructors, flight engineers, airline professionals, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, aviation technicians and enthusiasts. Established in 1947, ASA also provides ...
Any visual or electronic device, airborne or on the surface, which provides point-to-point guidance information or position data to aircraft in flight.
Electronic navaids have been installed around airports and along airways to help pilots navigate without reference to visual features of the terrain. Very-high-frequency OmniRange navigation equipment (VOR), Instrument Landing Systems (ILS), and Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) are examples of navaids.
Industry:Aviation
Any weight-carrying device designed to be supported by the air. Airplanes, helicopters, gliders, and balloons are all types of aircraft.
Industry:Aviation
Any wind blowing downslope. Fall winds, foehns, chinooks, and Santa Anas are katabatic winds.
Industry:Aviation
Anyone, except an air carrier, who engages in the carriage of persons or property in an aircraft for compensation or hire.
Industry:Aviation
Anything that has mass and takes up space. Matter may exist as a solid, liquid, or gas, and all matter has both physical and chemical properties.
Industry:Aviation
Approach control radar used to detect and display an aircraft’s position in the terminal area. ASR provides range and azimuth information but does not provide elevation data. Coverage of the ASR can extend up to 60 miles.
Industry:Aviation
Approach light system with sequenced flashing lights in ILS category-I configuration ALSF-II. Approach light system with sequenced flashing lights in ILS category-II configuration SSALF. Simplified short approach light system with sequenced flashing lights SSALR. Simplified short approach light system with runway alignment indicator lights MALSF. Medium intensity approach light system with sequenced flashing lights MALSR. Medium intensity approach light system with runway alignment indicator lights LDIN. Sequenced flashing lead-in lights RAIL. Runway alignment indicator lights ODALS. Omnidirectional approach lighting system
Runway lights/Runway edge lights
Touchdown zone lighting
Runway center line lighting
Threshold lights —
REIL (Runway End Identifier Lights)
VASI (Visual Approach Slope Indicator lights)
Boundary lights
Industry:Aviation
Approaches to parallel runways by IFR aircraft which, when established inbound toward the airport on the adjacent final approach courses, are radar-separated by at least two miles.
Industry:Aviation
Arc sine is usually written sin-1.
Industry:Aviation
