Kilometer
A measure of distance used in almost all other countries, at about 5/8 mile.
Kph - Kilometers-Per-Hour ...
Kilometer - A unit of measurement used on charts to further confuse pilots who already have trouble with knots.
Lazy 8 - 1. Well-known fly-in resort ranch. 2. The airport operator, his four mechanics, and three lineboys.
Available seat kilometers (ASKs)
The total number of seats offered multiplied by the distance flown, used as a measure of air transport passenger capacity.
Authorised Capital ...
85 kilometers. A knot is defined to be a nautical mile per hour. 6To practice these techniques on the ground, you can use the compass roses on the chart, in the same way that you would use the DG if you were in the airplane.
Cruising speed at altitude is 770 kilometers per hour, and in ground effect is 450 kilometers per hour. For comparison: wing span of the Boeing 747 is 64.4 meters, the airplane's length is 70.6 meters, and height is 19.4 meters.
Abbreviation Available tones-kilometers. The number of tones of cargo a airline can carry, multiplied by the number of miles they fly.
AVIATION WORKING GROUP ...
NM
Nautical Miles. One nautical mile = 1.15 statute miles = 6,076 feet = 1.85 kilometers
Pan-Pan
The international radio-telephony urgency signal. When repeated three times, indicates uncertainty or alert followed by the nature of the urgency ...
(2) Cannot reach an altitude greater than 150 kilometers (93.2 statue miles) above the earth's surface.
Related Definitions from Aviation Glossary ...
1 Nautical Mile per hour
1.852 Kilometers per hour
0.514 Meters per second
1.1507 Miles per hour (roughly) ...
K
Klick - Slang for kilometer
Knife fight - Common term for a close in dogfight between two aircraft ...
" Typically several hundred kilometers in diameter, and often possessing strong winds, polar lows tend to form beneath cold upper-level troughs or lows when frigid arctic air flows southward over a warm body of water.
average haul - The average distance one ton is carried. It is computed by dividing ton-miles or ton-kilometers by tons of freight originated.
bank angle - see: roll ...
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