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  • Pilot/Controller Glossary › A

    TRAFFIC ORGANIZATION (ATO) - The FAA line of business responsible for providing safe and efficient air navigation services in the national airspace system. AIR TRAFFIC SERVICE (ATS) ROUTES - The term “ATS Route” is a generic term that includes “VOR Federal airways ... AIRBORNE- An aircraft is considered airborne when all parts of the aircraft are off the ground. AIRBORNE DELAY- Amount of delay to be encountered in airborne holding. AIRBORNE REROUTE (ABRR)- A capability within the Traffic Flow Management System used…

  • Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 4. Arrival Procedures › 5-4-5. Instrument Approach Procedure (IAP) Charts

    have a manufacturer supplied electronic database which must include the waypoints, altitudes, and vertical data for the procedure to be flown. The system must be able to retrieve the procedure by name from the aircraft navigation database, not just ... RNAV (GPS) charts. (a) Some RNAV (GPS) charts will also contain an ILS line of minima to make use of the ILS precision final in conjunction with the RNAV GPS capabilities for the portions of the procedure prior…

  • Pilot/Controller Glossary › M

    MANPADS use against airborne aircraft is real and requires familiarity with the subject. Terrorists choose MANPADS because the weapons are low cost, highly mobile, require minimal set-up time, and are easy to use and maintain. Although the weapons have ... SYSTEMS.) MAP- (See MISSED APPROACH POINT.) MARKER BEACON- An electronic navigation facility transmitting a 75 MHz vertical fan or boneshaped radiation pattern. Marker beacons are identified by their modulation frequency and keying code, and when received by compatible airborne equipment…

  • Chapter 9: Navigation Systems › Flight Management Systems (FMS) › Function of FMS

    between” for the crew and the navigation systems. Function of FMS At startup, the crew programs the aircraft location, departure runway, DP (if applicable), WPs defining the route, approach procedure, approach to be used, and routing to alternate. This ... more sophisticated aircraft, the FMS provides inputs to the HSI, RMI, glass flight deck navigation displays, head-up display (HUD), autopilot, and autothrottle systems…

  • Chapter 11: Communication & Navigation › Collision Avoidance Systems › Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS)

    vertical evasive maneuvers, some stand-alone TCAS displays are electronic vertical speed indicators. Most aircraft use some version of an electronic HSI on a navigational screen or page to display TCAS information. [Figure 11-132] A multifunction display may depict ... EFIS or other previously installed or selected display(s) is also required. TCAS may be referred to as airborne collision avoidance system (ACAS), which is the international name for the same system. TCAS II with the latest revisions is known…