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

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Vented fuel

Aviation; Air traffic control

ICAO: Usable fuel that is intentionally or unintentionally released while the aircraft is airborne.

Under way

Aviation; Air traffic control

The state of being on the surface of the water but not moored or fastened to any fixed object on the land or in the water.

Uncontrolled airspace

Aviation; Air traffic control

Class G and specified Class F airspace within which ATC service is not provided.

Visual glide slope indicators (VGSI)

Aerodrome facilities, including mechanical and electro-optical devices, providing vertical visual approach slope guidance to aircraft during the approach to landing. Lighting facilities provide this ...

Weather information

Aviation; Air traffic control

Information supplied to operators and flight crew members that phenomena, meteorological reports, aerodrome forecasts, forecasts for takeoff, landing forecasts, SIGMET and air reports that are ...

Wind cone

Aviation; Air traffic control

(1) An indicator that is in the form of a truncated cone made of fabric and that is not less than 12 ft long and, at the larger end, not less than 3 ft in diameter, so constructed as to give a clear ...