CVR - cockpit voice recorder. A tape recorder installed on the flight decks of commercial transport aircraft and helicopters and some business aeroplanes to record crew conversation, RT transmissions and cockpit background noises (e.g.
CVR: Cockpit Voice Recorder.
°C, F, M, T: degrees Celsius, Fahrenheit, magnetic, true.
D&D Cell: Distress and Diversion Cell (at ATCC listening out on 121.5Mhz and 243Mhz).
CVR
Cockpit Voice Recorder
CYCLES
Pertaining to turbine engines. Cycle begins with starting, continues through full-power, and ends with shutdown.
A CVR committee usually consisting of members from the NTSB, FAA, operator of the aircraft, manufacturer of the airplane, manufacturer of the engines, and the pilots union, is formed to listen to the recording.
CVR - Cockpic Voice Recorder. Device that records crew conversations. Used in accident investigations.
CW - Continuous wave. A radio carrier broadcast that does not have modulation.
Cycles - Pertaining to turbine engines.
COCKPIT VOICE RECORDER (CVR) — A crash-resistant device featuring a very sensitive microphone to digitally record sounds heard in the cockpit of an airplane: pilot-to-pilot conversation and comments, warning horns and signals, slipstream, ...
Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR)
A device that records the sounds audible in the cockpit, as well as all radio transmissions made and received by the aircraft, and all intercom and public address announcements made in the aircraft.
Like a cockpit voice recorder (CVR), a flight data recorder is designed to withstand the forces of a crash so that its information may be used to reconstruct the circumstances leading up to the accident (in some cases, a digital flight data recorder, ...
Black Box: Popular name given to either the CVR or the FDR used to investigate an accident.
BRG: Bearing. Horizontal direction to/from a point, expressed in degrees (for example: 000 or 360 is North, 090 is East).
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