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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SSR code

Aviation; Air traffic control

A four-digit octal number received from the aircraft transponder when it is interrogated by a secondary surveillance radar (SSR).

Survival ELT

Aviation; Air traffic control

An ELT that is removable from an aircraft, stowed so as to facilitate its ready use in an emergency and activated by survivors. Automatic activation may apply.

Northern Domestic Airspace (NDA)

As geographically delineated in the Designated Airspace Handbook (DAH), a subdivision of Canadian Domestic Airspace (CDA) commencing at the North Pole and extending southward to the northern limit of ...

Southern Domestic Airspace (SDA)

Aviation; Air traffic control

As geographically delineated in the Designated Airspace Handbook (DAH), all airspace within the Canadian Domestic Airspace (CDA) commencing at the Canada-United States border and extending northward ...

Go around

Aviation; Air traffic control

An expression used in radiocommunications to instruct a pilot to abandon an approach or landing.

Have numbers

Aviation; Air traffic control

An expression used by pilots to indicate that they have received runway, wind and altimeter information only.

Transport Canada Aeronautical Information Manual (TC AIM)

Aviation; Air traffic control

A primary Transport Canada publication of aeronautical information intended to serve as a pre-flight reference source for pilots and that contains information essential to aircraft operations in ...