Base Leg
Aircraft Landing
Base Leg - A flight path at right angles to the landing runway. The base leg normally extends from the downwind leg to the intersection of the extended runway centerline.
You're paralleling a right base leg for Runway 32 at Baltimore's Martin State Airport. Paralleling means you aren't in the airport traffic pattern proper, but a distance out.
Base: Base of operations or a hub for an airline. The base leg is also one of the many words describing the approach segments. See Final for a diagram.
Bleed air: Hot compressed air taken from turbine engines.
base leg - A flight path at right angles to the landing runway off its approach end that extends from the downwind leg to the intersection of the extended runway centerline.
Base fare/rate - the basic price of ticket before taxes and other surcharges are added (these are usually a substantial amount particularly on longer flights).
Base:The part of a landing when the airplane is at right angles to the runway. It will turn once and then be lined up for landing.
BASE VALUE
The most controversial of all aircraft values, the base value is, as ISTAT says, 'an open, unrestricted, stable market environment with a reasonable balance of supply and demand, ...
BASE or Base Leg The leg perpendicular to the final leg of the traffic pattern to the landing runway.
Base Load Antenna
A rigid, short antenna mounted to the model. Used to replace the longer receiver antenna.
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Base leg - A flight path at right angles to the approach of a runway end. It usually extends from the downwind leg to the intersection of the extended runway centerline. See Traffic Pattern.
The base turn in a following crosswind creates a problem with holding airspeed. This turn makes the existing crosswind into a tailwind and the pilot's peripheral vision will detect an increase in ground speed.
Fixed Base Operator (FBO)
FBOs are the nice folks who provide services like fuel, flight planning facilities, phones, access to rental cars, rest rooms, showers, snooze rooms for pilots, and bunches of other useful things.
Fixed Base Operation (FBO) or Flight Service Operation (FSO) - -the place that general aviation aircraft use to park, refuel, load and unload passengers. This is located on the airport but not at the main airline terminal.
Fixed-base operator (FBO) - A business located on the airport that provides services such as hangar space, fuel, flight training, repair, and maintenance to airport users.
Cloud Base. The height at the bottom of a towering cloud.
Cloud Height. The height of the cloud base above the ground at the point indicated.
Base/Base Leg- Flight path that is at a right angle to the direction of landing
Bearing - Horizontal direction to or from any point
Braking Action - Report of wheel gripping action on runways
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Base Fare/Rate
Price of a travel service before taxes and add-on charges.
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BASE (Number)
Reference number used to indicate such information as headings, altitude, fuels, etc.
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Fixed base operators (also known as fixed base of operation), or FBOs, are service providers at airports that are either a private enterprise or a department of the municipality that the airport serves.
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* 2004 base prices hadn't been announced at press time. Standard equipment may vary.
Sources: Aircraft Bluebook Price Digest, Jane's All The World's Aircraft and manufacturer's specs
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From the base key point, you have a lot of options. If you arrive with the ideal amount of energy, you can fly a nice base leg and then turn final.
FBO (Fixed Base Operator) A business operating an airport terminal for non-airline, general aviation aircraft.
FBO (Fixed Base Operator)
The small but important building near the ramp and runways of a small airport, from which airfield activity is coordinated ...
FBO (Fixed Base Operator) - An airport-based business that parks, services, fuels, and may repair aircraft; often rents aircraft and provides flight training.
FBO - fixed base operator, American term for commercial operators supplying fuel, maintenance, aircraft sales, rental, flight training, handling and other GA services at an airport.
FBO "Fixed Base Operator." A business that sells fuel, rents planes, offers flight instruction, etc.
FBO - Fixed-Base Operator, a commercial operator supplying fuel, maintenance, flight training, and other services at an airport.
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RTB- Return To Base
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Santa Claus- A very generous evaluator or instructor - you screw up bad and instead of hooking you like he should, he says..."Merry Christmas" ...
AAB: Army Air Base
AAC: Army Air Corps (Proper for USAAC)
AACS: Army Airways Communications System
AAF: Army Air Forces (Proper for USAAF)
AAFIB: Army Air Force in Britain
AAFld: Army Air Field
AAFSC: Army Air Forces Service Command ...
As the upper longerons are usually parallel to the propeller axis, they may be used as a base line. Align one side of the center section first, then the other side, and lastly the front.
Then the pilot should figure out where he currently is with respect to the traffic pattern (is he already on downwind, base, or final?).
Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: USAF Historical Research Center, 1988.
Johnsen, Frederick A. Darkly Dangerous: the Northrop P-61 Black Widow Night Fighter. Tacoma, Washington: Bomber Books, 1981.
Maurer, Maurer.
They have a soft copper alloy base that is tin or nickel plated. That, in itself, is not bad. It is the properties of that metal that make it bad.
P-40 identification at a base in the CBI theater warned pilots to look for "the cigar shape fuselage" with the fin on top" as opposed to the stab atop the fuselage and deeper rudder of the P-40....and the Oscar! ...
So you get your aircraft onto the downwind leg of its approach, then turn it onto the base leg. Now it is approaching the projected centreline of the runway at right angles. Only one turn remains, for the 'closing' heading.
Airlines typically have one facility for major maintenance work and aircraft modifications, called the maintenance base; larger airlines sometimes have more than one maintenance base. Smaller maintenance facilities are maintained at an airline?
The Avion III underwent a secret test at the Sartory Military Base on 12th October, 1897. The engines were too heavy and too weak to lift the machine off the ground. However, Adler falsely claimed that he had flown about 1,000 feet (300 m).
AFB - Air Force Base
AFRC - Air Force Reserve Command
AIS pod - The pods carried by aircraft at Red and Green Flag so that ground controllers and instructors can keep track of ACMs in real time
ALCM - Air Launched Cruise Missile ...
The second step is to establish what the base fuel pressure will be and if, as with forced induction or certain "dry nitrous" kits, pressure will be required to change with engine load. How does fuel pressure affect pump delivery?
Check the winds aloft, cloud base and visibility limits and set your escape options, just in case the weather turns bad.
Includes 45 degree or crosswind entry to the rectangle, with downwind, base and final legs as sides of the rectangle.
That part of an instrument approach procedure which commences at the specified final approach fix or point, or where such a fix or point is not specified, at the end of the last procedure turn, base turn or inbound turn of a racetrack procedure, ...
Ceilings. The height above the ground of the base of the lowest layer of clouds when over half of the sky is obscured.
CLSD
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DEPARTURE AREA. The general area encompasses all base camps, bivouacs, departure airfields, and air landing facilities (see Marshalling Area).
DELTA WING - When viewed in plan has the shape of an isosceles triangle; the apex leads, the wing trailing-edge forming the base of the triangle.
DERATED - An engine which is restricted to a cower output below its potential maximum.
The B-52B number 52-8711 entered operational service with 93rd Heavy Bombardment Wing at Castle Air Force Base, California, on 29 June 1955. The wing became operational on 12 March 1956.
The distance of the knot from the base of the kite is denoted by (K) and is shown as a yellow line below the bridle. This distance is also set on the trim input panel.
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