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Federal Aviation Administration
Industria: Government
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Automated weather reporting system consisting of various sensors, a processor, a computer-generated voice subsystem, and a transmitter to broadcast weather data.
Industry:Aviation
A type of ammeter installed between the generator output and the main bus in an aircraft electrical system.
Industry:Aviation
Prescribes standardized methods for use in designing instrument flight procedures.
Industry:Aviation
The act of removing ice accumulation from an aircraft structure.
Industry:Aviation
To use more power than required for the purpose of achieving a faster rate of airspeed change.
Industry:Aviation
Volume of space above the station where a lack of adequate navigation signal directly above the VOR station causes the needle to deviate.
Industry:Aviation
Electronic navigation equipment that operates in the low- and medium-frequency bands. Used in conjunction with the ground-based nondirectional beacon (NDB), the instrument displays the number of degrees clockwise from the nose of the aircraft to the station being received.
Industry:Aviation
A differential global positioning system (DGPS) that improves the accuracy of the system by determining position error from the GPS satellites, then transmitting the error, or corrective factors, to the airborne GPS receiver.
Industry:Aviation
Areas where participating pilots can receive additional radar services. The purpose of the service is to provide separation between all IFR operations and participating VFR aircraft.
Industry:Aviation
A Greek letter expressed by the symbol Δ to indicate a change of values. As an example, ΔCG indicates a change (or movement) of the CG.
Industry:Aviation