C of A - Certificate of Airworthiness issued by the CAA indicating that an aircraft meets the Authority's airworthiness standards.
C of A. Certificate of Airworthiness.
Col. With reference to a weather map, a region of weather between two areas of relatively high pressure and two areas of relatively low pressure.
C of A Certificate of Airworthiness (refers to the aircraft not the pilot!)
CAA Civil Aviation Authority
Camber The curvature of the surface of an aerofoil that causes lift ...
A characteristic of a system whereby any malfunction affecting the system safety will cause the system to revert to a state that is known to be within acceptable risk parameters.
Related Definitions from Aviation Glossary ...
The fundamental characteristic of a bombing airplane is its ability to carry great weight. Such machines are of comparatively large size and not particularly fast.
Rigidity. The characteristic of a gyroscope that prevents its axis of rotation tilting as the Earth rotates.
Rime ice. Rough, milky, opaque ice formed by the instantaneous freezing of small supercooled water droplets.
By not compensating for the effects of the wind in the first half of the S-turn, we've not been able to fly a symmetrical arc of a half-mile diameter nor a quarter-mile radius.
In the Robinson this is characteristic of a pilot who has not rolled the throttle into the override.
 See also: Flight, Aircraft, Pilot, Power, Aviation
  
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