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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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Flight itinerary (FI)

Aviation; Air traffic control

Specified information, submitted in accordance with the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs), regarding the intended flight of an aircraft.

Expanded frontal width

Aviation; Air traffic control

Either the lateral distance between the outermost aircraft in a moving altitude reservation when such distance has been stated in an approval request (APREQ) and has been approved, or the approved ...

Flight line

Aviation; Air traffic control

(1) Other expression for: apron (2) The predetermined directional line of flight within a flying display area.

Minimum equipment list (MEL)

Aviation; Air traffic control

A document approved by the Minister pursuant to CAR 605.07(3) that authorises an operator to operate an aircraft with aircraft equipment that is inoperative under the conditions specified therein and ...

Master minimum equipment list (MMEL)

Aviation; Air traffic control

A document established by the Minister pursuant to CAR 605.07(1) that enumerates the aircraft equipment that is allowed to be unserviceable for a specified type of aircraft under the conditions ...

Itinerant aircraft

Aviation; Air traffic control

An aircraft that (a) is proceeding to or arriving from another location; or (b) leaves the aerodrome traffic circuit but will be returning to land.

Directed bright light

Aviation; Air traffic control

A lighting system, other than laser light, designed to project a bright light into space.

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