Runway
A runway is the area of an airport where an aircraft can land or takeoff. Their length is determined by the size of the airport and the type of aircraft expected to land there.
Runway Datum Point (RDP)
The RDP is used in conjunction with the FPAP and a vector normal to the WGS-84 ellipsoid at the RDP to define the geodesic plane of a final approach flight path to the runway for touchdown and rollout.
runway length
Operating at mountain airstrips presents us with various passenger loads and different density altitude conditions for nearly each takeoff.
Runway contamination
At some point in time runways will be contaminated with rain, snow or slush.
Runway End Identifier Lights (REIL) - Two synchronized flashing lights, one on each side of the runway threshold, which identify the approach end of the runway.
Runway Incursion Avoidance
Flying Handbook Menu Introduction to Flight Training > Flight Safety Practices > Runway Incursion Avoidance ...
I Need A Price Check On Runway 6, Please
User fees have the potential to significantly change the way we fly
By Harry Daniels, CPA, CFP ...
Landing to the east, you can think of the strip as Runway 11, bearing about 115 degrees. For a quick familiarization glimpse of that approach, put the aircraft at N19290, E18893, altitude 2000, and heading 115.
RUNWAY PROTECTION ZONE (RPZ) - The RPZ (formerly referred to as the runway clear zone) is trapezoidal in shape and centered about the extended runway centerline. It begins 200 feet beyond the end of the area usable for takeoff or landing.
RUNWAY - A designated area or path where the aircraft takes off and lands.
TAXI - Aircraft path or movement from the gate to the runway for takeoff, or from the runway to the bay area of the airport, where aircraft are packed.
runway - A defined rectangular area on a land airport prepared for the landing and takeoff run of aircraft along its length.
runway capacity - The maximum number of operations that can be handled on a particular runway.
Runway Incursion
Any occurrence at an airport involving an aircraft, vehicle, person, or object on the ground that creates a collision hazard or results in loss of separation with an aircraft taking off, intending to take off, ...
Runway End Identification Light (REIL.): An airport lighting facility consisting of a single flashing high intensity white light installed at each approach end comer of a runway and directed toward the approach zone, ...
Runway: A prepared track on an aerodrome to facilitate the landing and taking-off of heavily loaded aeroplanes. Runways may be either concrete or metal lattice-work. The former type is more permanent.
S ...
Single Runway
Most airports feature only a single runway. That's fine, until the wind blows hard from a direction across the runway. That's because airplanes have limitations as to how much crosswind in which they can safely take off or land.
Runway Safety
FAA Home » Airports » Resources » Acronym Glossary
Glossary of Airport Acronyms ...
Runway direction is rounded off to the nearest 10 degrees and reduced to a two-figure group by deleting the final 0.
Relative position
Relative position, with reference to a pilot sitting in the cockpit, is often expressed using the clock code.
Runway End Safety Area
Revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs)
The number of paying passengers on an aircraft multiplied by the number of kilometres flown, used as a measure of air passenger travel services.
Runway - 1. Place where exotic flight attendant starts her act (also see "Airstrip"). 2. Ramp extending from the stage into the audience area at all good burlesque houses in Vegas.
S-turn - Course flown by student pilot from point A to point B.
RUNWAY XX
Runways are numbered after magnetic compass points, minus the 1`s column (where North is 0, and 360, degrees).
RUSC
RVSM User Support Cell ...
RUNWAY HEADING- The magnetic direction that corresponds with the runway centerline extended, not the painted runway number.
A runway is considered contaminated whenever standing water, ice, snow, slush, frost in any form, heavy rubber, or other substances are present.
Rwy Runway
SATCO Senior Air Traffic Controller
Solo Flight and Flight time recorded when unaccompanied by a supervising pilot ...
(See RUNWAY CONDITION READING.)
BRAKING ACTION ADVISORIES- When tower controllers have received runway braking action reports which include the terms "poor" or "nil, ...
Main runway used for landing is 18R
Transition level 50
Lowest usable flight level is 50. See Transition altitude.
RVR: runway visual range.
SAFETYCOM: Frequency for use in certain circumstances by aircraft operating in the vicinity of UK aerodromes and landing sites that do not have a frequency assigned for communication. Introduced on 11 November 2004.
If the runway is covered with mud, tall grass, sand, or snow, there can be troublesome amounts of friction against the wheels.
RVR - runway visual range, a horizontal measurement of visibility along a runway.
rwy - runway.
Rx - receiver.
Precision Runway Monitor - A system that allows simultaneous, independent IFR approaches.
The painted runway numbers can be used to help guide your descent. While on final, look at the runway numbers. If they appear to move toward and below you, you're approach is too high.
Line up with the runway and push the throttle full open, not too slowly but not too quickly either.
html IFF Identify Friend or Foe -- see transponder ILS Instrument Landing System - a system which allows appropriately equipped aircraft to find a runway and land, ...
V1: decision speed, up to which it should be possible to abort a take-off and stop safely within the remaining runway length. After reaching V1 the take-off must be continued.
VA: design manoeuvring speed.
Category IIIa (CAT IIIa) - An ILS facility providing operation with no decision height to and along the surface of the runway with external visual reference during the final phase of landing and with an RVR of not less than 7000 feet.
"Category II operations", with respect to the operation of aircraft, means a straight-in ILS approach to the runway of an airport under a Category II ILS instrument approach procedure issued by the Administrator or other appropriate authority.
If the helicopter touches down, the skids are level, and the helicopter will usually just skip off the runway and then climb out. Usually the helicopter won't touch down because more vertical lift remains available during the entire maneuver.
The others are V1 - the speed beyond which a safe stop on a runway is no longer possible; and V2 - the minimum speed needed to keep a plane flying should an engine fail after the aircraft surpasses V1.
This is very tricky to do correctly, and must be timed perfectly-if the pilot turns too soon, the plane will be blown off the runway, but if he turns too late, ...
Also used as state of a runway. if the runway is Black, then its not useable due to a crash or mishap etc.
Black-out - In a high Gravity turn, an aviators blood is sucked out of the brain, into the lower body. Can cause unconsciousness.
Hydroplane - An airplane designed to land on a wet runway, 20,000 feet long.
IFR - A method of flying by needle and ripcord.
Lean Mixture - Non-alcoholic beer.
Now it is approaching the projected centreline of the runway at right angles. Only one turn remains, for the 'closing' heading.
A lovely combination to watch on a sunny evening because the tug uses all the runway and the glider has to be air bourne first. This requires trust and lots of concentration from all pilots.
Final - Final approach course, aligned with landing runway
Fix - Geographical position determined by visual reference or by reference to one or more radio navaids
Flight Level - An altitude above 18,000 feet expressed in 3 digits.
On landing, slow the plane down as much as possible as you approach the runway. It takes practice to bring it almost, but not quite down to its "Stall Speed," which is the speed at which it stops flying.
A localizer has a direction associated with it - toward the runway. Sometimes as part of an instrument approach a pilot has to fly the wrong way on the localizer path, which is called flying the back course.
More than a few bad approaches to short runways have been saved by this trick to lose altitude quickly.
TRAFFIC PATTERN A standard rectangular flight pattern around the landing runway at an airport. Includes 45-degree or crosswind entry to the rectangle, with downwind, base and final legs as sides of the rectangle.
Approach: 1)A documented series of turns and altitude changes intended to align a landing airplane with the runway when weather conditions prevent this from being done visually. Various types of approaches offer different degrees of accuracy.
Equipment determining glideslope, localizer (bearing), and distance (marker beacon) to a runway; ILS provides precision aiding for landing; ILS is usually part of a VOR station.
The localizer guides the aircraft toward the centerline of the runway, while the glideslope acts as a ramp to a designated touchdown area on the runway. The pilot uses a CDI to "see" both the localizer and the glideslope.
The ideal descent path to a runway. It can be electronically defined by radio signals transmitted from the ground. An aircraft carrying a special radio receiver can detect this electronic glidepath and follow it down to the runway.
Gateway City ...
Third, there is the "two-way" field, which has two sufficiently long runways at right angles to each other.
Facility providing operation down to 200 feet decision height and runway visual range not less than 2600 feet.
CAT II
Facility providing operation down to 100 feet decision height and runway visual range not less than 1200 feet.
What causes the lift that gets the airplane off the runway? How does a pilot control the movement of the airplane? Why are the engines on an airliner different from the engines on a fighter plane?
This creates the ability for the helicopter to take off and land vertically without the need for runways.
Piper Cub has endured and grown over the years, not only on account of nostalgia, but because these aircraft are just plain fun and easy to fly and provide good grass field capability (most classic aircraft were developed in a time when paved runways ...
With respect to the operation of aircraft, means a straight-in ILS approach to the runway of an airport under a Category II ILS instrument approach procedure issued by the administrator or other appropriate authority.
Civil aircraft ...
Localizer. The component of an ILS that provides course guidance to the runway.
MINIT
Minutes in Trail. A specified interval between aircraft expressed in time.
increased landing speeds, requiring a longer runway;
reduced braking effectiveness;
reduced structural strength margins; ...
ILS - Instrument Landing System. A radar-based system allowing ILS-equipped aircraft to find a runway and land when clouds may be as low as 200 feet (or lower for special circumstances).
 See also: Aircraft, Flight, Aviation, Landing, Airport
|
