Airborne Glossary
ADMINISTRATIVE PARACHUTE OPERATION (Routine Proficiency Jump). Airborne operations conducted without combat equipment or tactical assembly immediately following the jump.
Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS) is an ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) standard specified in ICAO Annex 10 Vol IV which provides pilots with a system independent of air traffic control to detect the presence of other ...
Airborne weather radar
Radar has been developed in the last century as an early detection device for enemy aircraft. Soon it became apparent that weather had its influence on the radar returns.
airborne - Supported only by aerodynamic forces; aloft or flying.
aircraft - A machine used for flying. Airplanes, helicopters, airships and jets are all aircraft.
AEW - Airborne Early Warning
A radar system installed in an aircraft that is used to detect the presence of aircraft, missiles, warships, etc entering a specified area.
Airborne Radar and Associated Airborne Beacon
Aeronautical Radionavigation
5460-5470 MHz ...
Airborne Warning And Control System
AZIMUTH
Two or more groups primarily separated in bearing.
Airborne time is the time from takeoff to touchdown.
Engine running time is used for maintenance schedules.
Estimate elapsed time (EET) is the estimated time to complete a leg of a flight.
AIRBORNE DELAY- Amount of delay to be encountered in airborne holding.
AIRBORNE GROCER
A device for barrage-jamming of Wurzburgs. Extremely vulnerable to being homed onto.
AIRCRAFT
means a device that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air ...
The airborne system utilising the VOR beacon transmissions usually consists of an antenna (probably a V - type dipole mounted horizontally on the fin or fuselage but could be the more expensive 'blade' or 'towel rail' types), ...
Once airborne, relax the backpressure on the control stick, lowering the nose by one or two degrees. The airspeed continues to increase.
Once airborne, the pilot activates the flight plan by calling air traffic control (ATC) and telling them what time the flight actually took off. This starts a timer in the ATC system.
Once airborne, you want to climb at VX until you have cleared the obstacles, for reasons discussed in section 7.5.4.
The idea of choosing VR to be equal to VX is only an approximation. There are exceptions: ...
Al- Airborne interception; radar device carried by military aircraft to aid location and interception of hostile aircraft.
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AEW - Airborne early warning
AFB - air force base, usually U.S. or Canadian.
AFCS - automatic flight control system, an advanced autopilot. Also IFCS, integrated flight control system.
When safely airborne, tower control hands off the aircraft to departure control, which oversees the flight as it climbs away from the airport and enters the en route airspace.
TRANSPONDER An airborne transmitter that responds to ground-based interrogation signals to provide air traffic controllers with more accurate and reliable position information than would be possible with 'passive' radar; ...
JA/AT- Joint Airborne Air-Transportability Training. Bilateral training with the army; typically and airdrop mission with paratroopers.
Flight Pack or Airborne Pack All of the radio equipment installed in the airplane, i.e., Receiver, Servos, Battery, Switch harness.
an arbitrary point, rather than to a point under which a VOR exists Squawk A 4-digit (actually 4-octal-digit -> 12-bit) number which is set into a transponder by the pilot to identify the aircraft to air traffic controllers Transponder an airborne ...
developed radar-based airborne collision avoidance system operating independently of ground-based equipment. TCAS-I generates traffic advisories only, TCAS-II provides advisories and collision avoidance instructions in the vertical plane.
TACAMO - TAke Charge And Move Out - Boeing E-6 airborne command post - US Navy only
TACAN - TACtical Aid to Navigation - a ground based military UHF navigation aid ...
Area Navigation (RNAV) - Navigation system that allows for operation on any desired course within an area serviced by ground based navigation signals, or self contained airborne system ...
We want to have full control of the aircraft as soon as airborne and throughout the whole speed range.
For a given thrust (engine horsepower, intake, exhaust and propeller) we want a high cruise speed, thus need low drag at high speed.
It is the airborne portion of the secondary surveillance RADAR system and one in which every pilot is familiar.
As the most basic and simplest to fly radio-controlled (RC) helicopters, co-axial models offer novices and experts a simple way of getting airborne; however, their design makes them somewhat limited in their overall maneuverability, ...
For a fun takeoff, fly toward some part of the Ambassador Bridge as soon as you're airborne, and buzz the roadway traffic. An observer (if you have tower capability) is on the bridge, close to the center of the span.
The XL2 can economically fill the demand for airborne surveillance in an emerging sector of the light aircraft market dictated by homeland security.
It is theoretically possible for the Fokker triplane to remain airborne on its 2 lower planes alone (of 9.9 square metres area). The stall speed would be about 64mph.
OBSTACLE FREE ZONE (OFZ) - The OFZ is a three dimensional section of airspace that supports the transition of ground-to-airborne-aircraft operations (and vice versa).
Electronic components emitting signals which provide vertical guidance by reference to airborne instruments during instrument approaches such as Instrument Landing System, or visual ground aids, such as Visual Approach Slope Indicator, ...
Navigational Aid. Any visual or electronic device, airborne or on the surface, which provides point-to-point guidance information or position data to aircraft in flight.
NM
Nautical Mile. International unit equal to 6076.115 feet (1852 meters).
Aircraft Operations: The airborne movement (landing or taking off) of aircraft. There are two types of operations - local and itinerant.
1. Local operations are performed by aircraft that: ...
" Burkill and his crew managed to keep the 777 airborne as they flew over houses, schools and offices - clearing Heathrow's perimeter fence by just five feet before crash-landing into a field 500 yards short of the runway.
Bright and early the next morning, we're in the air by 8:00am. This is an airborne shot 10 miles sw of HSA. I'm bummed. I want to stay the rest of the week at Mardi Gras! Gotta start making tracks homeward, though.
Weight on Wheels (WOW): Indication of whether the aircraft has weight on its wheels, meaning airborne or on the ground; weight on wheels can be detected by a sensor on the wheels, ...
FLIGHT WATCH or EFAS FSS priority handling of real-time weather information to airborne flights (rather than for preflight planning) on a single national radio frequency of 122.0 MHz (low altitude).
Despite its deficiencies, the Me 262 was clearly signalling the beginning of the end of piston-engined aircraft as efficient fighting machines. Once airborne, it accelerated to speeds well over 800 km/h (500 mph), ...
Take off The movement of aircraft from a position of rest to the moment they are airborne
TAS The speed of an aeroplane through the air in which it is flying
Thr Threshold ...
Parachute Troops: The parachute soldier was much in the news during the Second World War and with other types of airborne troops - carried in both aeroplanes and towed gliders - was considered to be of growing importance in the future.
To make an aircraft more aerodynamically efficient, the wheels on which an aircraft rolls when it is on the ground are retracted into a cavity in the belly of the plane after it is airborne.
you will be familiarized with the location and purpose of flight controls and instruments. Again using the checklist, you will proceed through engine start, taxi, and pretakeoff procedures. In a few short minutes, you will actually be airborne.
Autogyro - An aircraft equipped with a rotating wing, or rotor, to sustain itself in the air, and a propeller to move forward.
AUX Fuel - Auxiliary fuel tanks.
AWACS - Airborne Warning And Control System.
 See also: Aircraft, Flight, Pilot, Aviation, Landing
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