- Industry: Government
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The foundation for all instrument flight, this instrument reflects the airplane’s attitude in relation to the horizon.
Industry:Aviation
The empty weight that consists of the airframe, engine(s), unusable fuel, and undrainable oil plus standard and optional equipment as specified in the equipment list. Some manufacturers used this term prior to GAMA standardization.
Industry:Aviation
Telephone recording of area and/or route meteorological briefings, airspace procedures, and special aviation-oriented announcements.
Industry:Aviation
An imaginary vertical plane or line from which all measurements of arm are taken. The datum is established by the manufacturer. Once the datum has been selected, all moment arms and the location of CG range are measured from this point.
Industry:Aviation
An inner ear organ that detects linear acceleration and gravity orientation.
Industry:Aviation
A design feature incorporated into some wings to improve aileron control effectiveness at high angles of attack during an approach to a stall.
Industry:Aviation
Controlling the aircraft by reference to the instruments rather than by outside visual cues.
Industry:Aviation
A component of the total aerodynamic force on an airfoil and acts perpendicular to the relative wind.
Industry:Aviation
Restriction to flight imposed in order to:
1. Protect persons and property in the air or on the surface from an existing or imminent flight associated hazard;
2. Provide a safe environment for the operation of disaster relief aircraft;
3. Prevent an unsafe congestion of sightseeing aircraft above an incident;
4. Protect the President, Vice President, or other public figures; and,
5. Provide a safe environment for space agency operations.
Pilots are expected to check appropriate NOTAMs during flight planning when conducting flight in an area where a temporary flight restriction is in effect.
Industry:Aviation
Navigation of an airplane solely by means of computations based on airspeed, course, heading, wind direction and speed, groundspeed, and elapsed time.
Industry:Aviation
