Alternate airport

Alternate Airport
Alternate Airports are airports that are marked along an aircraft's flight plan that can safely accommodate the landing of the aircraft, ...

Alternate airport - 14 CFR 1.1
Tags: 14 CFR 1.1, FAA, Regulatory
Alternate airport means an airport at which an aircraft may land if a landing at the intended airport becomes inadvisable.

Alternate airport. An airport designated in an IFR flight plan, providing a suitable destination if a landing at the intended airport becomes inadvisable.

Alternate Airport: An airport at which an aircraft may land if a landing at the intended airport becomes inadvisable.
Altimeter: A device to measure altitude, either barometric altitude or radar altitude
ALTINTVAL: Altitude integral input.

Alternate Airport
An alternate is not required if the first airport of intended landing has a standard instrument approach procedure.

[edit] Alternate airports
Part of flight planning often involves the identification of one or more airports which can be flown to in case of unexpected conditions (such as weather) at the destination airport.

Alternate Airport - The airport that no aircraft has sufficient fuel to proceed to if necessary.
Angle of Attack - Pick-up lines that pilots use.
Arctic Frost - Attitude shown by uncooperative stewardess (also see "Horizontally Opposed").

Every aircraft is required to carry, at minimum, enough fuel to reach its destination, or reach a pre-determined alternate airport and still be able to fly for an additional 45 minutes.

Go-Around: Balked approach, when the aircraft climbs away from the runway during the approach, to either start the approach again, or proceed to the alternate airport.
GPS: Global Positioning System (Navstar).

The training scenario we’re going to construct simulates being unexpectedly pushed down by weather and having to navigate our way to an alternate airport.

In the preflight planning phase aeronautical information must be gathered about intended route, the departure-, destination- and alternate airports.

go - around to climb away from a runway after making an approach, either to make a further attempt at landing or to divert to an alternate airport (formerly 'overshoot').
Goxio - VHF direction finding (France)
GP - glidepath ...

MINIMUMS- Weather condition requirements established for a particular operation or type of operation; e.g., IFR takeoff or landing, alternate airport for IFR flight plans, VFR flight, etc.
(See LANDING MINIMUMS.) ...

See also: Aircraft, Flight, Airport, Navigation, Aviation