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  • Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 3. Airport Operations › 4-3-8. Braking Action Reports and Advisories

    controllers receive runway braking action reports which include the terms medium, poor, or nil, or whenever weather conditions are conducive to deteriorating or rapidly changing runway braking conditions, the tower will include on the ATIS broadcast the statement, “BRAKING ACTION…

  • Pilot/Controller Glossary › B

    controllers receive runway braking action reports which include the terms “medium,” “poor,” or “nil,” or whenever weather conditions are conducive to deteriorating or rapidly changing runway braking conditions, the tower will include on the ATIS broadcast the statement, “Braking Action…

  • Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 3. Airport Operations › 4-3-9. Runway Condition Reports

    weather conditions are conducive to deteriorating or rapidly changing runway braking conditions, the tower will include on the ATIS broadcast the statement, “BRAKING ACTION ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT.” d. During the time that braking action advisories are in effect…

  • Chapter 1: Risk Management and Single-Pilot Resource Management › Aeronautical Decision-Making

    deteriorating weather, the pilot departed for the flight home at 5:00 p.m. He did not consider how fatigue and lack of extensive night flying experience could affect the flight. ⦁ Fuel exhaustion—with the aircraft fuel supply almost exhausted ... pilot no longer had the option of diverting to avoid rapidly developing thunderstorms. He was forced to land at the nearest airfield available. On numerous occasions during the flight, the pilot could have made decisions which may have prevented this…