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.

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Minimum en route IFR altitude

Aviation; Air traffic control

U.S.: Expression for: minimum en route altitude (MEA)

MSL altitude

Aviation; Air traffic control

The altitude expressed in feet measured from mean sea level.

CANPASS

Aviation; Air traffic control

The expression used to denote a Canada Customs programme for the telephone clearance of travellers on a Canadian- or U.S.-registered private aircraft, company aircraft, or small charter aircraft ...

U.S.: An unscheduled weather advisory issued by centre Weather Service Unit meteorologists for ATC use to alert pilots of existing or anticipated adverse weather conditions within the next 2 hours. A ...

Convective SIGMET

Aviation; Air traffic control

U.S.: A weather advisory concerning convective weather significant to the safety of all aircraft. Convective SIGMETs are issued for tornadoes, lines of thunderstorms, embedded thunderstorms of any ...

Simultaneous Operations on parallel or near-parallel instrument runways (SOIR)

Aviation; Air traffic control

A term used by ICAO to refer to operations in which aircraft conduct simultaneous approaches and/or departures from parallel or near-parallel instrument runways. Note: Although the term ...

North American route (NAR)

Aviation; Air traffic control

A special routing system consisting of routes located within the high level airspace established to facilitate control of the flow of international air traffic between the North Atlantic (NAT) and ...