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Even a competent attitude-instrument pilot will need to use his outside vision during a night flight, if only in the transition during takeoff and landing.
Night - Aviation Definition
The aviation definition of the term Night has a significant Regulatory impact on aviation and worldwide aircraft operations .
Night Lozenge
A night version of Germany's printed camouflage scheme in which the coloured polygons were overprinted in black.
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NIGHTTIME AVERAGE SOUND LEVEL (NL)- The average sound level during nighttime hours between 10:00 pm and 6:59 a.m. Sometimes symbolized Ln.
PER NIGHT: When a hotel program awards miles for each night's accommodation.
PER STAY: When a hotel program awards miles once per visit, whether or not the visit comprises more than one night.
Day-night average sound level (DNL) - A noise measure used to describe the average sound level over a 24-hour period, typically an average day over the course of a year.
NIGHT- The time between the end of evening civil twilight and the beginning of morning civil twilight, as published in the American Air Almanac, converted to local time.
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Night visual flight rules
NVMC
Night visual meteorological conditions (same usage as NVFR) ...
Night Vision Device
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Informative call indicating attack is terminated and maneuvering to the indicated direction.
For night flight, turn the light on and make sure it works. For daytime, give it a wiggle and make sure it is secure.
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For night flying a system of four flares is used, so arranged that the pilot in making a proper landing will pass flare A on his left; within 50 yd. further on, flare B; then 100 yd. further on, flare C, also on his left.
On the night of 16th May, 1943, Gibson led 18 Avro Lancasters, each carrying one bomb. It took five attempts to breach the Moehne Dam. Gibson then led the three remaining Lancasters to attack the Eder Dam.
An overnight stay (or possibly longer) at a location en-route to your final destination. This is usually done to break up a very long journey eg. London to Sydney with a stopover in Hong Kong.
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During night or early morning, over areas where seawater temperature is higher that the air temperature, storms (Cb) may develop if the lapse rate is potentially unstable.
On the night of May 19, 1918, the Gothas returned to England for the last and largest raid of the war. Bogohl 3 sortied 38 Gothas against London, but suffered heavy losses in the process.
NVG- Night Vision Goggles - a.k.a. NVD - night vision device
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NVQ - National Vocational Qualification. A Government-recognised qualification, the cost of training for which can be set against tax.
LAYOVER A night spent in the middle of the trip in a city other than home base for the aircraft and crew.
Day-Night Average Sound Level (DNL): A method for predicting, by a single number rating, cumulative aircraft noise that affects communities in airport environs.
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NVG - Night vision goggles. Used by ground troops and pilots to enhance vision at night ...
Leave the wing overnight to dry. Sand down the rough edges until smooth. Use progressively finer sandpaper until the surfaces are smooth. Once the frame of the wing is complete, skin it either with additional balsa wood or fabric.
If you are planning night VFR, stick to fields that you have visited in the daytime often enough to know the tricks for avoiding the local obstacles, if any.
If you are going to an unfamiliar field at night, follow the IFR procedures.
Black Widow: Northrop P-61 twin-engined Night Fighter
Blind approach: Approach to landing under very low visibility conditions with the aid of R/T
Bingo: Point of maximum fuel level for successful return flight to base.
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VFR flight at night is not permitted. Pilots who fly under VFR do so by looking out the window. Flight through clouds is permitted only under IFR, which requires an instrument rating and an appropriately-equipped aircraft.
Measured in furlongs-per-fortnight in student aircraft. Air Traffic Control Center - A drafty, ill-kept, barn-like structure in which people congregate for dubious reasons.
Mountains are totally invisible at night. (Make mountains at night a dark gray or something so they can be distinguished.)
Mountains of other-worldly colors, even in computers that support thousands of colors, are destroying all illusion of reality.
All-weather fighter - A radar-equipped jet fighter airplane which can operate at night or in the worst weather.
All-weather interceptor - A radar-equipped jet fighter airplane which can operate at night or in the worst weather.
For the next nine months I was working full time and flew freight all night full time as well. That only left about two or three hours for sleep.if I was lucky.
There was another important development following cargo deregulation - the rapid expansion of overnight delivery of documents and small packages.
Visibility is the ability to see and identify prominent objects by day and night as determined by atmospheric conditions. I can be reports in numerous measurements such as hundreds of feet, statue miles, or meters.
guarding aircraft at all times while they are on the ground and parking them in secure areas overnight;
searching aircraft cabins, cockpits and cargo holds prior to their first flight of the day; ...
Land and Sea Breezes: Offshore and onshore winds which occur up to about 1,000ft at night and in the daytime respectively. They are caused by the more rapid heating and cooling of the air over land than over water.
2 Dim the Screens at Night. As beautiful as the PFD and MFD screens are, even with their automatic dimming, they can be too bright at night. You can dim the MFD by turning off the topography display at night, but the PFD will remain bright.
After completion of Phase 1, you are then allowed to carry passengers and fly at night or IFR if so equipped. Phase 2 limitations do add some restrictions that merit discussion. First of all, you may not carry passengers or property for hire.
Other economy measures involved using current production turboprop engines and nacelles from Vickers Viscounts, and making the twin booms out of sections of Gloster Meteor fuselage, since a nightfighter version of that jet was being built under ...
At around this time you will be introduced to night flight. You will fly at least three hours at night and perform a minimum of 10 takeoffs and landings in the dark.
Big and heavy container are mostly a nightmare if you just need to mix 4 or 6 oz - try to refill in more handy container - 1 gal size is a lot easier to handle and you waste less.
RON: Remain Overnight. Aircraft remaining overnight at the airport, either at the gate, remote parking stand or hangar. Airlines take advantage of RONs to perform maintenance, cleaning, etc. on the aircraft.
RVR: Runway Visual Range.
If the guest fails to appear for the night's stay, the hotel will charge the traveler for the room.
No Show Billing: A penalty incurred if a hotel reservation is not cancelled, generally by 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM the day of arrival.
Surfaces which can be readily and clearly observed by flight crew during day and night operations, and which are suitable for judging whether or not critical surfaces are contaminated.
Crash - To bed down for the night. What every pilot hopes to do once he has found a suitable landing site (also see "Suitable Landing Site").
Cuban 8 - A family of political refugees in Miami.
Dead Reckoning - You reckon correctly, or you are.
land breeze - A coastal breeze blowing from land to sea, usually at night when the sea surface is warmer than the adjacent land.
landing - To carry out the process of bringing a flight vehicle down to the earth or another surface.
CFIT accidents occur 64% of the time in daytime and 36% at night
51% of CFIT accidents occur in Instrument Meteorological Conditions, 48% in Visual Meteorological Conditions and 1% unknown.
Navigation Light Identifying lights on an aircraft can be used to identify the presence of an aircraft and its direction of movement, especially at night.
According to the National Weather Service snow and sleet could be expected on Monday night, as well as a combination of snow and sleet on Tuesday.
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Booking two overlapping round trips with opposite origin and destination points, where both bookings meet restrictions required to obtain a discount fare (such as a Saturday-night stayover); ...
VISIBILITY- The ability, as determined by atmospheric conditions and expressed in units of distance, to see and identify prominent unlighted objects by day and prominent lighted objects by night.
VFR (Visual Flight Rules) Regulations governing a flight for which no IFR flight plan is in effect. There are minimum visibility and cloud clearance limits for operating under VFR, but it may be day or night.
Airspeed - 1. The speed of an airplane through the air. 2.True airspeed plus 20% when talking with other pilots. Deduct 25% when listening to a Navy aviator. 3. Measured in furlongs-per-fortnight in student aircraft.
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During the summer and during the daytime the tropopause is higher than during the winter and at night respectively. The tropopause is not continuous; it is often ragged as it slopes from the Equator towards the poles.
No more than two door bundles per door may be exited from the first three aircraft on the first pass only for standard trail formations. Separation between lines will be 30 minutes for day and 1 hour for night drops.
to be seen to be discounting tickets themselves and therefore use these wholesale agents on their behalf. These tickets are normally restrictive as a number of rules will apply, such as a minimum and maximum stay, the inclusion of a Saturday-night ...
GPS is accurate with four or more properly oriented satellites. Accuracy is degraded with improperly placed satellites or fewer than four satellites visible. GPS-INS is the most accurate of modes listed, with day/night and all weather capability.
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