distress
A condition of being threatened by serious and/or imminent danger and of requiring immediate assistance
ditch
To land safely somewhere other than a runway ...
Distress Signal. Civil aircraft in danger and in need of immediate assistance have international signals laid down for use.
They are:
Radio-telegraphy: S.O.S.
A distress or an urgency condition.
En Route High Altitude Charts
Provide aeronautical information for en route instrument navigation (IFR) in the high altitude stratum.
Â- physical distress or a workload such that the flight crew cannot be relied upon to perform their tasks accurately or completely
Â- serious injury or death of a relatively small proportion of the occupants ...
Emotional Distress: Mental anguish.
Equipment Status: Operational status of a piece of equipment consisting of a status indicator and status words.
EMERGENCY- A distress or an urgency condition.
EMERGENCY LOCATOR TRANSMITTER- A radio transmitter attached to the aircraft structure which operates from its own power source on 121.5 MHz and 243.0 MHz.
D&D Cell: Distress and Diversion Cell (at ATCC listening out on 121.5Mhz and 243Mhz).
Dewpoint: The OAT at which the airmass reaches saturation point.
DME: Distance Measuring Equipment.
DETRESFA - distress phase of search and rescue operation.
DF - direction indicator. A gyro instrument which indicates the magnetic heading of an aircraft.
A distress or urgent condition.
Emphasis error. The result of giving too much attention to a particular instrument during the cross-check, instead of relying on a combination of instruments necessary for attitude and performance information.
Though the Mayday distress signal can be transmitted over any frequency aircraft have special frequencies that are specifically for distress calls. The frequency 121.
Mayday: The ultimate international radio distress call, indicating imminent danger to the life of the occupants onboard and requiring immediate assistance. Its slightly less prioritary equivalent is Pan Pan.
Mayday - international radio distress call (from the French, m'aidez help me). It signifies imminent danger to life requiring immediate assistance.
mb - millibar.
MCU - management control unit ...
ELT - Emergency Locator Transmitter, a type of distress beacon used in aircraft
EMPENNAGE - An aircraft's tail group, includes rudder and fin, and stabilizer and elevator. Old French: empenner, to feather an arrow, from Latin penna, feather.
The impact of a bird on the windscreen, or even if it is ingested in a turbine, is enough reason for a distress or even an emergency situation as the amount of energy, even with a small bird is very high due to the velocity of bird and aircraft, ...
"... under the opera's quaint superficies of popular humor, the profound melancholy, the lament, the cry of distress of poetry in chains...." ...
Marker Beacon - Electronic navigation facility transmitting a 75 MHz vertical fan shaped radiated pattern
Mayday - International radiotelephony distress signal
MEDEVAC - Medical Evacuation Flight
MEL - Minimum Equipment List
MHz - Megahertz ...
In parts of the world where there are relatively few lakes and rivers, they make good landmarks. In other parts of the world, there are so many lakes and rivers that it is distressingly easy to misidentify them.
testing, the chase aircraft have been manned by test pilots just like the experimental planes they accompany, providing a common language and bond between test pilot and observer. The experienced pilots in the chase aircraft could guide distressed ...
The Cubs suited me much better with the open door. One minute I was a fighter pilot shooting down enemy airplanes and the next I was Sky King rushing to the aid of a neighbor in distress. Many hours were "logged" in the Cubs over several summers.
 See also: Aircraft, Flight, Stress, Landing, Aviation
  
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