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Air Traffic Flow Management (usually seen abbreviated as ATFM) is the regulation of air traffic in order to avoid exceeding airport or air traffic control capacity in handling traffic, and to ensure that available capacity is used efficiently.

 


Air traffic clearance - 14 CFR 1.1
Air traffic clearance means an authorization by air traffic control, for the purpose of preventing collision between known aircraft, ...

Air Traffic Control
ATC Facilities
The Air Traffic Control (ATC) system is run by the Federal Aviation Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Air Traffic Controller
The Air Traffic Controller is the person responsible for coordinating, directing, and guiding aircrafts through landing and takeoff.

Air Traffic Control Lesson #2
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Air Traffic Control (ATC)
A service operated by the appropriate authority to promote safe, orderly and expeditious flow in air traffic.
Cargo load factor ...

Air traffic tower personnel control airborne aircraft and specifically landings and takeoffs in the immediate vicinity of the airport (generally 2-5 nautical miles) and ground movements of aircraft and vehicles transiting to and from runways, ...

Air Traffic Control
The vast majority of flights are not handled by air traffic control (ATC). Surprised? You shouldn't be; just think about how you use your car on a daily basis.

Air Traffic Control (ATC)
A catch-all term for all the folks a pilot might be talking to in controlled airspace (or even outside it).

Air Traffic Control (ATC) - A service operated to promote the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic.

Air traffic control
A service provided for the control of aircraft flight movements in areas of controlled airspace and aircraft ground movements.
Alliance ...

Air Traffic Clearance: An authorization by air traffic control, for the purpose of preventing collision between known aircraft, for an aircraft to proceed under specified traffic conditions within controlled airspace.

air traffic management system - see TMS.
airborne - Supported only by aerodynamic forces; aloft or flying.
aircraft - A machine used for flying. Airplanes, helicopters, airships and jets are all aircraft.

Air Traffic Hub: Air traffic hubs are not airports; they are the cities and Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas requiring aviation services.

Air Traffic Control (ATC).
Standard aviation term
Aircraft (ac).
A craft that flies in the air; either fixed or rotory wing.

ATC (Air Traffic Control) The FAA service providing separation services to participating airborne traffic and clearances to land, take off or taxi at airports with a control tower.

Air traffic controllers may separate departing aircraft by visual means after considering aircraft performance, wake turbulence, closure rate, routes of flight and known weather conditions.

Air Traffic Service Communications (Communications related to air traffic services. This includes ATC, aeronautical and meteorological Information, position reporting and services related to safety and regularity of flight)
AUTHENTICATE ...

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER Ground-based personnel responsible for coordinating, directing, and guiding airplanes through their landing and takeoff procedures.

Air Traffic Plans and Publications
Environmental Issues
International Aviation
Technology
Weather ...

Air Traffic Control Center - A drafty, ill-kept, barn-like structure in which people congregate for dubious reasons.

Alternate Airport - The airport that no aircraft has sufficient fuel to proceed to if necessary.

Air Traffic Control
ATIS
Automatic Terminal Information Service. A recorded voice message that provides weather and airport services information.

Air Traffic Control will apply separation distances to IFR aircraft except to VFR following a medium or heavy aircraft or IFR on a visual approach and were the pilot reported the previous traffic in sight and follows and maintains own separation.

Air traffic facilities which provide pilot briefing, en route communications and VFR search and rescue services, assist lost aircraft and aircraft in emergency situations, relay ATC clearances, originate Notices to Airmen, ...

5. Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) (FAA). (Only those towers delegated approach control authority.).
RADAR ARRIVAL- An aircraft arriving at an airport served by a radar facility and in radar contact with the facility.
(See NONRADAR.) ...

ATC (Air Traffic Control)
Air Traffic Control is provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air.

ATCO Air Traffic Controller
ATPL Air Transport Pilot's Licence
C of A Certificate of Airworthiness (refers to the aircraft not the pilot!) ...

(See AIR TRAFFIC CLEARANCE.)
CLEARANCE LIMIT- The fix, point, or location to which an aircraft is cleared when issued an air traffic clearance.
(See ICAO term CLEARANCE LIMIT.) ...

When air traffic control (ATC) tells you “caution — wake turbulence” they are really telling you that some previous airplane has left a wake vortex in your path.

ATCC: Air Traffic Control Centre.
AVGAS: aviation gasoline.
BCAR: British Civil Airworthiness Requirements (UK).

ATC - Air traffic control.

AUTOGYRO - An aircraft with an unpowered rotary wing, which autorotates as the machine is propelled through the air by a conventional power plant.

ATC: Air Traffic Control
AUCTION: An award sale through which program members use their miles to bid against each other for a one-time only award that often involves attending special events or meeting famous people.

Know the Air Traffic Control Rules and procedures pertaining to that particular flight.
Pre-Flight Inspection: Every flight should be preceeded by a preflight inspection of the plane.
Cabin Inspection: ...

NATS - National Air Traffic Services. A division of the CAA providing UK air traffic control.
Nav - navigation.
Nav/Com - navigation and communication.

Mode-A A transponder which does not give the controllers altitude information Mode-C A transponder and encoding altimeter which together give air traffic controllers altitude information Mode-S A new "flavor" of transponder which features unique ...

Basically, it states that you must conduct your flight testing over sparsely populated areas having light air traffic. FAR 91.319 provides a listing of operating limitations.

A high-frequency system enabling air traffic control to alert a particular aircraft, by means of flashing light or aural signal in the cockpit, for receipt of a message without the crew having to maintain a listening watch.

supply SIGMET information and, as required, other meteorological information to associated air traffic services units;
disseminate SIGMET information;
prepare AIRMET information related to its area of responsibility; ...

It's called the Next Generation air traffic system (NextGen), and instead of radar as the primary sensor, it's based on satellite navigation systems like GPS.

ATC - Air Traffic Control. The people in control towers (at airports that have them) to regulate takeoffs, landings, and planes moving through their general area.
ATI and ATR - ARINC from factors.
ATM - Air traffic management.

ATC - Air Traffic Control
ATF Aerodrome Traffic Frequency - VHF frequency designated for use in the vicinity of certain specified uncontrolled airports
ATIS - Automated Terminal Information Service
ATS - Air Traffic Services ...

Before releasing the brakes and taxiing onto the runway, your instructor will explain how and where to look for other air traffic. Remember, landing aircraft have the right-of-way.

Transponder A device aboard an aircraft for transmitting data to an air traffic control radar system. Each time the transponder is queried by the radar, it responds with a numeric code and the aircraft's altitude.

PREFERENTIAL RUNWAY USE (PROGRAM) - A noise abatement action whereby the FAA Air Traffic Division, in conjunction with the FAA Airports Division, ...

Report on incidents that adversely affect the FAA air traffic service facilities in providing safe, orderly, and expeditious movement of air traffic. Usually prepared by FAA on FAA Form 8020-11.
Alleged violations ...

Transponder: A radio transmitter in the plane that responds to the radar signal from Air Traffic Control, permitting it to easily detect the airplane. The transponder it set to a "squalk code" to permit the aircraft to be identified.

The government agency responsible for air safety and operation of the air traffic control system. The FAA also administers a program which provides grants from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for airport development.
Flaps ...

IATA: International Air Traffic Association.
ICAN: International Commission for Air Navigation.

Minimum Connecting Time: The standard amount of time needed to make a connecting flight in a particular airport. This standard is determined by the air traffic conferences and varies according to the airport and the airline.

- The path of aircraft traffic around an airfield, at an established height and direction. At tower-controlled fields the pattern is supervised by radio (or, in non-radio or emergency conditions by red and green light signals) by air traffic ...

ATC - Air Traffic Control
AWACS - Airborne Warning and Control System (see AEW&C) - Aircraft (usually Boeing E-3) equipped with a powerful radar and on-board command and control center to direct the friendly forces ...

See also: Aircraft, Aviation, Flight, Air Traffic Control, Airport