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  • Chapter 3. Airspace › Section 5. Other Airspace Areas › 3-5-7. Special Air Traffic Rules (SATR) and Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA)

    Special Air Traffic Rules (SATR) and Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA) a. Background. The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) prescribes special air traffic rules for aircraft operating within the boundaries of certain designated airspace. These areas are listed ... part 93 and can be found throughout the NAS. Procedures, nature of operations, configuration, size, and density of traffic vary among the identified areas. b. SFRAs. Airspace of defined dimensions, above land areas or territorial waters, within which the flight…

  • Appendix B: Acronyms, Abbreviations, and NOTAM Contractions

    TERPS—terminal instrument procedures TFAC—to facility TFC—traffic TFR—temporary flight restriction TGL—touch-and-go landings TH—threshold THN—thin THR—threshold THRU—through THU—Thursday TIL—until TIMS—telecommunications information management system TIPS—terminal information processing system ... TKOF—takeoff TL—taxilane TM—traffic management TM&O—telecommunications management and operations TMA—Traffic Management Advisor TMC—Traffic Management Coordinator TMC/MC—Traffic Management Coordinator/Military Coordinator TMCC—terminal information processing system; Traffic Management Computer Complex TMF—Traffic Management Facility…

  • Pilot/Controller Glossary › A

    pilot’s opinion, would place the aircraft in jeopardy. (See ATC INSTRUCTIONS.) (See ICAO term AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL CLEARANCE.) AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL- A service operated by appropriate authority to promote the safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic ... ICAO term AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SERVICE.) AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL CLEARANCE [ICAO]- Authorization for an aircraft to proceed under conditions specified by an air traffic control unit. Note 1: For convenience, the term air traffic control clearance is frequently abbreviated…

  • Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 1. Services Available to Pilots › 4-1-15. Radar Traffic Information Service

    Purpose of the Service 1. The issuance of traffic information as observed on a radar display is based on the principle of assisting and advising a pilot that a particular radar target’s position and track indicates it may intersect ... that pilot’s intended flight path that it warrants attention. This is to alert the pilot to the traffic, to be on the lookout for it, and thereby be in a better position to take appropriate action should the need…

  • Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 1. Services Available to Pilots › 4-1-3. Flight Service Stations

    Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control Section 1. Services Available to Pilots 4-1-1. Air Route Traffic Control Centers Centers are established primarily to provide air traffic service to aircraft operating on IFR flight plans within controlled airspace, and principally ... Control Towers Towers have been established to provide for a safe, orderly and expeditious flow of traffic on and in the vicinity of an airport. When the responsibility has been so delegated, towers also provide for the separation…

  • Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 5. Surveillance Systems › 4-6-9. Contingency Actions: Weather Encounters and Aircraft System Failures that Occur…

    Guidance on Severe Turbulence and Mountain Wave Activity (MWA) for detailed guidance. Vector aircraft to avoid merging target with traffic at adjacent flight levels, traffic permitting Advise pilot of conflicting traffic Issue FL change or re-route, traffic permitting Issue ... PIREP to other aircraft If pilot requests, vector aircraft to avoid merging target with traffic at adjacent RVSM flight levels, traffic permitting Issue PIREP to other aircraft Paragraph 4-6-6 explains “traffic permitting.” NOTEMWA encounters do not necessarily result…