Traffic alert and collision avoidance system

Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System - TCAS
Traffic Alert Collision Avoidance System (TCAS)
Traffic data system ...

Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS)
Installed in commercial jets to search for and alert pilots to the presence of other aircraft.

TCAS (Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System) A cockpit system to detect other transponder-equipped aircraft, alert pilots, and command/coordinate evasive action between aircraft.

Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System - An airborne collision-avoidance system, with a display in the cockpit that alerts pilots to other aircraft traffic in the area.

TCAS
Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System
TCH
Threshold Crossing Height ...

(FAA) standard for transponder minimal operational performance, Technical Standards Order (TSO) C74c, contained errors which affect both air traffic control radar beacon system (ATCRBS) "radar" and Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) ...

RESOLUTION ADVISORY-A display indication given to the pilot by the traffic alert and collision avoidance systems (TCAS II) recommending a maneuver to increase vertical separation relative to an intruding aircraft.

Threshold - Beginning position of a runway usable for landing
TACAN - Tactical Air Navigation
TCA - Terminal Control Area
TCAS - Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (jokingly referred to as the "fishfinder")
TCU - Terminal Control Unit ...

ATC uses the altitude data to help separate different aircraft from each other. Other airplanes with traffic alert and collision avoidance systems (TCAS) can see and use the altitude data.

See also: Collision, Navigation, Aircraft, Flight, Radar