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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Estimating

Aviation; Air traffic control

Canada: An expression used within ATS when communicating a pilot estimate.

Low level tactical training route

A route used by the U.S. Department of defence and Canadian DND units for the purpose of conducting low-altitude navigation and tactical training in both instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) ...

Flight path

Aviation; Air traffic control

A trajectory along which an aircraft is flying or intended to be flown.

Estimate

Aviation; Air traffic control

Canada: The time, in UTC, at which an IFR aircraft is calculated, by either the controller, the pilot or through automated means, to arrive over a significant point.

Exercise route

Aviation; Air traffic control

The route of flight to be flown by strike-force aircraft from departure to point of recovery.

Handoff

Aviation; Air traffic control

The process of transferring the radar identification of an aircraft target and radio communications for that aircraft to another controller to ensure the uninterrupted provision of radar service.

Final leg

Aviation; Air traffic control

A flight path extending from the end of the base leg in the direction of landing to and along the extended centreline of the runway (or landing path) to the threshold of the landing runway (or ...