FSS (Flight Service Station) — FAA weather briefing and flight plan facility which once numbered 361 U.S. locations before most were consolidated into 61 AFSSs. Usually on an airport to handle walk-in traffic.
FSS SEE FLIGHT SERVICE STATION
FUSELAGE - An aircraft's main body structure housing the flight crew, passengers, and cargo and to which the wings, tail and, in most single-engined airplanes, engine are attached. French: fuselé, tapering.
FSS
Flight Service Station. Air traffic facilities which provide pilot briefing, en route communications and VFR search and rescue services, assist lost aircraft and aircraft in emergency situations, relay ATC clearances, originate Notices to Airmen, ...
FSS - Flight Service Station (USA).
FTO - flying training organisation.
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(See FLIGHT SERVICE STATION.)
FUEL DUMPING- Airborne release of usable fuel. This does not include the dropping of fuel tanks.
In Canada, some FSS monitor the frequency 126.7 MHz, which is also the common en route frequency for flight in Canada, as well as 121.5 MHz, the emergency frequency. However, Canadian Flight Services are gradually no longer monitoring 126.
The acronym, NOTAM, stands for Notice to Airmen and can be obtained from the FSS when getting a briefing.
The pilot does this again with the help of the local FSS and can be done from the ground or the air. A VFR flight plan that is nit opened is good for 2 hours and then it expires and the pilot must file a new one.
Flight Service Station (FSS)
A set of ground-based information centers that provide information to pilots about weather and other flight conditions. They are separate from ATC, and only deal with fairly slowly developing phenomena.
Communication: airport frequencies: approach, tower and ground, ATIS for local weather, VOLMET for area weather, Flight Service Stations (FSS/AIS) for enroute traffic and weather information as PIREPs ...
Flight Service Station imageFlight service stations (FSS) provide pilot weather briefings. They also handle en route communications and initiate search and rescue procedures for overdue aircraft operating under visual flight rules (VFR).
Flight Service Station (FSS)
An FAA facility that provides specialized flight-related services to pilots. It can provide weather briefings and en route advisories, among other things.
Freight
All air cargo excluding mail.
FLIGHT WATCH or EFAS FSS priority handling of real-time weather information to airborne flights (rather than for preflight planning) on a single national radio frequency of 122.0 MHz (low altitude).
FCOM is a FAA Acronym for: FSS Radio Voice Communications
Related Definitions from Aviation Glossary
GSA
GHA
Military Operations Area (MOA)
ATA - Air Transport Association
MRO ...
air traffic facility that provides information typically to general aviation or business aviation pilots, including: en route communications, broadcast aviation weather and NAS information, and the receipt and processing of IFR flight plans. The FSS ...
But there isn't a big road direct from where we are to where we want to be, so I air file a flight plan (which the FSS sort of complains about - they prefer you do it by telephone) and we take off for Houston.
Flight Plan - Information relating to the intended fight of an aircraft that is filed with ATC
FIC - Flight Information Centre
FIR - Flight Information Region
FM - Frequency Modulation
FMS - Flight Management System
FSS - Flight Service Station ...
FAI Federation Aeronautique International FBO Fixed-Base Operator - a firm on an airport which maintains, rents, sells, and/or fuels aircraft, and may also provide flight training FSDO Flight Standards District Office - an FAA field office FSS Flight ...
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