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Department of the Government of Canada responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of transportation in Canada. It is part of the Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities (TIC) portfolio. Transport Canada is based in Ottawa, Ontario
A strike-force aircraft simulating a hostile aircraft during an air defence exercise while in the strike-route portion of the mission, i.e. initial point or H-hour control line (IP/HHCL) to ground target bomb release line or end exercise point (BRL/EEP).
Industry:Aviation
On the H-hour control line, the point at which the faker route portion of the exercise begins.
Industry:Aviation
The area surrounding a non-directional beacon (NDB) within which bearings can be obtained with an accuracy sufficient for the nature of the operation concerned.
Industry:Aviation
An area of defined lateral dimensions above which special rules concerning minimum en route altitudes apply.
Industry:Aviation
(1) A predetermined racetrack pattern flown as part of a holding procedure.
(2) U.S.: Expression for: holding procedure
Industry:Aviation
Relative to the standard meridians of the time zones, the period of time that begins at sunset and ends at the time specified by the Institute of National Measurement Standards of the National Research Council of Canada.
Note: Evening civil twilight ends in the evening when the centre of the sun's disc is 6 degrees below the horizon.
Industry:Aviation
Rules applicable to flights within an air defence identification zone (ADIZ) conducted under VFR.
Industry:Aviation
U.S. and Canada: The movement of a helicopter or vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (VTOL) above the surface of an aerodrome and in ground effect at airspeeds less than approximately 20 kt.
Note: One of the two terms encompassed by ICAO's term air-taxiing.
Industry:Aviation
A part of the apron designated for the touchdown and parking of helicopters that have taxied from a final approach and take-off area (FATO), runway or another part of the aerodrome.
Industry:Aviation
Electronic countermeasures (ECM) consisting of the deliberate radiation, reradiation, alteration, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic energy in a manner intended to mislead an enemy in the interpretation or use of information received by his or her electronic systems. There are two categories of electronic deception:
(a) manipulative deception;
(b) imitative deception.
Industry:Aviation
