Aviation Terminology #1 ( A to I )
A
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Apron: The area of an airport where aircraft are parked, unloaded or loaded, refueled, or boarded.
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Aileron: A primary flight control surface which control movement about the longitudinal axis of an aircraft
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Attitude Indicater: A flight instrument that informs the pilot of the aircraft orientation relative to Earth's horizon, and gives an immediate indication of the smallest orientation change.
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Airspeed Indicater: Is a flight instument that displays the speed at which the airplane is moving through the air.
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Affirmative: A proword meaning `Yes`, `okey` and `wilco`.
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Air Traffic Control (ATC): A service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through controlled.
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Approach facility: A terminal ATC facility that provides approach control service in a terminal area.
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Altimeter: A flight instrument that indicates altitude by sensing pressure changes.
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Airport Markings: A sign designed to assist in navigation and the flow of airport traffic.
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Actuator: A component of a machine that is responsible for moving and controlling a mechanism or system.
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Approach: Coming towards something.
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Align: Something is to bring something into place or in line with something else.
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Ascend: The act of climbing or moving upwards
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Arrival: The fact of a person or vehicle, etc. getting closer, arriving somewhere.
B
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Boom mike: A microphone attached to a pole that one does not have to hold.
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Break Squelch: A set threshold at which noise becomes audible.
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Burn-off: Process of using fuel by aircrafts.
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Block time: The time from the movement an aircraft begins taxiing until it parks after landing.
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Buffet boundary: : The speed boundaries within which airflow separates from the wing and the buffet is experienced.
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Base leg: Landing pattern is 90 degrees to the final approach to the runway.
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Course Deviation indicator: An avionics instrument used in aircraft navigation to determine an aircraft's lateral position in relation to a course to or from a radio navigation beacon.
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Callsign: Communication call signs assigned as unique identifiers to aircraft.
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Calibrated Airspeed: Indicated airspeed corrected for instrument and position error.
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Cruise: To maintain a constant speed.
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Commuterliners: The smallest narrow-body airliners, carry 20 passenger or less.
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Ceiling: An overhead interior surface that covers the upper limits of a room.
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Concours: Aplace where pathways or roads meet, such as in a hotel, a convention center, a railway station, an airport terminal, a hall, or other space.
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Customs: An authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country.
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Control tower: A building at an airport from which air traffic is watched and directed
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Cargo handler: A person employed to handle, move or transfer cargo.
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Clearence: Authorization for an aircraft to proceed under conditions specified by an air traffic control unit.
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Collision: An aviation accident in which two or more aircraft come into unplanned contact
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Climb restriction: : Is strict limitations of airport in order to prevent air traffic accidents.
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Cross-check: A generic term used by pilots and flight attendants meaning that one person has verified the task of another.
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Crosswind: Is a wind that blows sideways across an aircraft’s direction of travel.
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Departure: The fact of a person or vehicle, etc. leaving somewhere.
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Departure facility: A location that controls air traffic leaving from an airport.
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Descend: Any portion where an aircraft decreases altitude.
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Downwind leg: A flight path parallel to the landing runway in the direction opposite the landing direction.
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Deceleration: The decrease in speed over time.
E
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Elevator: A primary flight control surface that controls movement about the lateral axis of an aircraft.
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Equivalent Airspeed: Calibrated airspeed corrected for the compressibility of air at a non-trivial Mach number.
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Excessive: Level is something which is more than acceptable.
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Electrohydraulic Servo Valves: Is control the flow of fluid into the actuators.
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Emergency descent: A manoeuvre for descending as rapidly as possible to a lower altitude.
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Extention: Is the range or degree to which a flap can be opened.
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Fuselage: An aircraft's main body section.
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Flaps: A high-lift device used to reduce the stalling speed of an aircraft wing at a given weight.
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Flight service station: An air traffic facility that provides information and services to aircraft pilots before, during, and after flights.
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Feederliners: Vary in size, but none carry more than 100 passengers.
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Flight Information Services: A form of air traffic service which is available to any aircraft within a flight information region.
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Flight plan: Documents filed by a pilot or flight dispatcher with the local Air Navigation Service Provider.
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Fly-by-Wire control system: A system that relies on electrical signals.
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Fuel flow: Pounds of fuel consumed per hour.
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Fuel consumption: The amount of fuel an aircraft uses has a huge bearing on its running costs.
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Final approach leg: Is the last part of the landing pattern, and is a flight path that follows the direction of the runway, along the centerline.
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Ground Airspeed: The speed of an aircraft relative to the surface of the earth.
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Ground Controller: The person who controls air traffic on the taxiway and directs flights for take-off and landing.
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Gust: A sudden, strong increase in the speed of wind.
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Horizontal Stabilizer: Is a movable surface, typically located at the back of the aircraft, that helps the plane stay level.
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Headphones: A pair of small speakers worn close to a person`s ears.
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Handheld mike: A microphone that one holds by hand.
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Hail: Is a form of solid precipitation
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Holding Point: A specified location, identified by visual or other means, in the vicinity of which the position of an aircraft in flight is maintained in accordance with air traffic control clearances.
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Hydromechanical Control System: A high-pressure fluid control system.
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Hydraulic Circuit: Is a high pressure system using pumps and valves.
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High-speed Cruise: Type of cruise method which is used for saving fuel during the climb.
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High-speed descent: Type of descend method that is used for saving fuel and time during the landing.
I
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Instrument Panel: A control panel of flight instruments.
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Identify: To recognize someone or something and say or prove who or what that person or thing is.
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Indicated Airspeed: The airspeed read directly from the airspeed indicator (ASI) on an aircraft.
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IFR: One of two sets of regulations governing all aspects of civil aviation aircraft operations.
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IMC: An aviation flight category that describes weather conditions that require pilots to fly primarily by reference to instruments, and therefore under instrument flight rules (IFR)
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Inbound: Approaching towards a particular point.
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Interpret: To decide what the intended meaning of something is.
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Instrument scan: The process of reading flight position indicators.