Airport

Airport

A station, usually consisting of buildings, airfields and runways, used to provide a place for aircraft to take off and land as well as to house commercial services for passengers and on-board staff.

Industry: Aviation

Add a new term

Contributors in Airport

Become a Contributors

Airport

Sea clutter

Aviation; Air traffic control

Radar echoes caused by waves of the sea.

Radio direction-finding station

Aviation; Air traffic control

A radio station intended to determine only the direction of other stations by means of transmissions from the latter.

Radar environment

Aviation; Air traffic control

An area in which radar service may be provided.

The flight of a military aircraft maintaining a constant altitude above ground level (AGL) above the terrain or the highest obstacle. The altitude of the aircraft will constantly change with varying ...

Special-use airspace (SUA)

Aviation; Air traffic control

Airspace classified as: (a) Class F advisory (CYA), Class F restricted (CYR) or Class F danger (CYD), which can be controlled airspace, uncontrolled airspace or a combination of both; (b) military ...

Radar flight following

Aviation; Air traffic control

The observation of the progress of radar-identified aircraft, the primary navigation of which is being provided by the pilot, wherein the controller retains and correlates the aircraft identity with ...

Transponder airspace

Aviation; Air traffic control

A controlled airspace of defined dimensions within which a functioning transponder incorporating an automatic pressure-altitude reporting device is required.