CP.V.E.R1
Risk managementSelection of runway or takeoff path based on aircraft performance and limitations, available distance, and wind.
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- Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 3. Airport Operations › 4-3-4. Visual Indicators at Airports Without an Operating Control Tower
should use extreme caution when making runway selection by use of a tetrahedron in very light or calm wind conditions as the tetrahedron may not be aligned with the designated calm-wind runway. At airports with control towers, the tetrahedron…
- Chapter 1. Air Navigation › Section 1. Navigation Aids › 1-1-18. Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)
changes from the approach scaling to the missed approach scaling, at approximately the departure end of the runway or when the pilot selects missed approach guidance rather than ramping as GPS does. Second, when the first leg of the missed ... select the final approach segment of an instrument approach. Most receivers use menus where the pilot selects the airport, the runway, the specific approach procedure and finally the IAF, there is also a channel number selection method. The pilot enters…
- Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 2. Departure Procedures › 5-2-9. Instrument Departure Procedures (DP) - Obstacle Departure Procedures (ODP), Stan…
obstacle(s) cannot be visually acquired during departure, the takeoff should be delayed or another runway selected for the IFR departure. (a) Takeoff obstacles will be published as low, close-in and/or takeoff minimums obstacle notes. (1) Low, close…
- Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 4. Arrival Procedures › 5-4-6. Approach Clearance
loaded in the RNAV system with the RDFSH IAF selected. Pilots are not to select vectors or vectors to final option when loading the ILS runway 27 approach. h. The following applies to aircraft on radar vectors and/or cleared “direct…
- Glossary › Pilot’s Operating Handbook/Airplane Flight Manual
intensity runway lights, or the visual contrast of other objects. RVR. See runway visual range. RVV. See runway visibility value. SA. See selective availability. St. Elmo’s Fire. A corona discharge which lights up the aircraft surface areas where maximum…
- Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 4. Arrival Procedures › 5-4-16. Simultaneous Close Parallel PRM Approaches and Simultaneous Offset Instrument A…
offset course MAP/DA and the SAP) and the extended Angle runway centerline. The size of the angle is dependent on the aircraft approach categories (Cat egory D or only selected categories/speeds) that are authorized to use the offset course approach…