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An electronic navigation system used by military aircraft, providing both distance and direction information.
Industry:Aviation
The maximum altitude under standard atmospheric conditions at which a turbocharged engine can produce its rated horsepower.
Industry:Aviation
A standard instrument approach procedure in which only horizontal guidance is provided.
Industry:Aviation
A differential global positioning system (DGPS) that improves the accuracy of the system by determining position error from the GPS satellites, then transmitting the error, or corrective factors, to the airborne GPS receiver.
Industry:Aviation
Measurement north or south of the equator in degrees, minutes, and seconds. Lines of latitude are also referred to as parallels.
Industry:Aviation
Per 14 CFR section 23.51: “the calibrated airspeed on the ground at which, as a result of engine failure or other reasons, the pilot assumed to have made a decision to continue or discontinue the takeoff.”
Industry:Aviation
The angle of attack at which a wing stalls regardless of airspeed, flight attitude, or weight.
Industry:Aviation
A preplanned instrument flight rule (IFR) departure procedure printed for pilot use in textual or graphic form to provide obstruction clearance via the least onerous route from the terminal area to the appropriate en route structure. ODPs are recommended for obstruction clearance and may be flown without ATC clearance unless an alternate departure procedure (SID or radar vector) has been specifically assigned by ATC.
Industry:Aviation
The angle between the desired track and the heading of the aircraft necessary to keep the aircraft tracking over the desired track.
Industry:Aviation
