- Industria: Aviation
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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 ...
Flight controls of large, high-performance aircraft actuated by hydraulic cylinders. Hydraulic fluid under pressure is directed into the cylinders by valves actuated by the cockpit flight controls.
Industry:Aviation
Flight for the purpose of investigating the flight or operational characteristics of an aircraft or aircraft component, or evaluating an applicant for a pilot certificate or rating.
Industry:Aviation
Flight in which an airplane transitions from subsonic speed to a speed at or beyond the speed of sound. Transonic flight is considered to be between about 600 and 900 miles per hour, a speed of between Mach 0.8 and Mach 1.2. At this speed, some air passing over the aircraft is subsonic and other air is supersonic. Abrupt changes in the flight characteristics of an airplane take place in transonic flight.
Industry:Aviation
Flight in which the attitude of the aircraft is maintained and its navigation is done by visual reference to the horizon and to the ground over which the aircraft is flying.
Industry:Aviation
Flight of an aircraft in which all the air passing over the aircraft structure is moving at a speed slower than the speed of sound.
Industry:Aviation
Flight of more than one aircraft which, by prior arrangement between the pilots, operate as a single aircraft with regard to navigation and position reporting.
Industry:Aviation
Flight paths recommended for use to bypass areas heavily traversed by large turbine-powered aircraft.
Pilot compliance with recommended flyways and associated altitudes is strictly voluntary. VFR Flyway Planning Charts are published on the back of existing VFR Terminal Area Charts.
Industry:Aviation
Flight rules adopted by the Federal Aviation Administration to govern aircraft flight when the pilot has visual reference to the ground at all times. VFR operations specify the amount of ceiling (the distance between the surface of the earth and the base of the clouds) and the visibility (the horizontal distance the pilot can see) that the pilot must have in order to operate according to these rules.
When the weather conditions are not such that the pilot can operate according to VFR, he or she must use another set of rules, instrument flight rules (IFR).
Industry:Aviation
Flight toward a navaid without a wind correction being applied. This is done by adjusting the aircraft heading to maintain a relative bearing of zero degrees between the navaid and the nose of the aircraft.
Industry:Aviation
