1 :1 |
One-to-one relationship |
|
1 :M |
One-to-Many relationship |
|
1 PPS |
One Pulse Per Second |
|
16PF |
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire |
|
2D |
Two-Dimensional |
|
2H |
Second Half |
|
3D |
Three Dimensional |
|
3D |
Palair Macedonian |
|
4-MASt |
4-MAST group |
|
4D |
Four-Dimensional |
|
4D FMS |
4D Flight Management System |
|
4D-NAV |
4D Navigation |
|
4DTN |
4D Trajectory Negotiation |
|
5-SRSWG |
5-States Route Structure Working Group |
|
5-ST-RSG |
5-States Route Structure Group |
|
5-STRSSG |
5-States Route Structure Steering Group |
|
5LNC |
Five Letter Name Code |
|
8.33 CP |
8.33 Contact Person |
|
8.33 PMC |
8.33 Programme Management Cell |
|
8.33 State |
A State initially implementing 8.33 kHz channel spacing |
|
a |
Aeroplane |
|
A |
Ampere |
|
A SMGCS |
Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems |
|
A&E |
Architecture and Engineering |
|
A&F |
IFALPA Administration & Finance Committee |
|
A&P |
Airframe & Powerplant |
|
A-VASIS |
Advanced Visual Approach Slope Indicator System |
|
A-VDGS |
Advanced-Visual Docking Guidance System |
|
A/A |
Air-to-Air |
|
A/A |
Air/Air |
|
A/C |
Aircraft |
|
A/C |
Aircraft Commander |
|
A/D |
Analog-to-Digital |
|
A/D Converter |
Analogue-to Digital Converter |
|
A/G |
Air/Ground |
|
A/G |
Air-Ground |
|
A/H |
Altitude/Height |
|
A/I |
Accident/Incident |
|
A/l |
Anti-ice |
|
A/N |
Arrival Notice |
|
A/P |
Autopilot |
|
A/S |
Alongside |
|
A/T |
autothrottle |
|
A01 |
Automated Observation Without Precipitation Discriminator |
|
A02 |
Automated Observation With Precipitation Discriminator |
|
aa |
AMERICAN AIRLINE |
|
AA |
Always Afloat |
|
AAA |
Aesean Airline Association |
|
AAA |
Airport Airspace Analysis |
|
AAA |
Asian Airliners Association |
|
AAA |
Amended meteorological message |
|
AAAA |
Always Accessible Always Afloat |
|
AAATS |
Australian Advanced Air Traffic Services |
|
aac |
Airline Administrative Communication |
|
AAC |
Aeronautical Administration Communication |
|
AAC |
Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center |
|
AACC |
Airport Associations Co-coordinating Council |
|
aacc |
Airport Associations Co-ordinating Council |
|
AACE |
Airfield Approach Control Element |
|
AACI |
Airports Association Council International |
|
AACO |
Arab Air Carriers Organization |
|
AACO |
Arab Air Carriers Organisation |
|
AAD |
Assigned Altitude Deviation |
|
AADC |
Airport Average Daily Capacity |
|
AAF |
ATM Added Functions |
|
AAF-1 |
Director of Airway Facilities |
|
AAFCE |
Allied Air Forces Central Europe |
|
AAFG |
ATM Added Functionality Sub-Group |
|
AAG |
AIS Automation Group |
|
AAGDI |
Automated Air Ground Data Interchange |
|
AAH |
Autonomous Aircraft Hybrid |
|
AAIB |
Air Accidents Investigation Branch |
|
AAIB |
Air Accident Investigation Branch |
|
AAIM |
Aircraft Autonomous Integrity Monitoring |
|
AAL |
Above Aerodrome Level |
|
AAL |
Alaska Region |
|
AALPBH |
Association of Airline Pilots in Bosnia & Herzegovina |
|
AAM |
Airbus Asset Management |
|
AAM |
Office of Aerospace Medicine |
|
AAME |
Association of Aviation Medical Examiners |
|
AAMS |
Aircraft Arrival Management System |
|
AAOSA |
Always Afloat or Safe Aground |
|
AAP |
Advanced Automation Program |
|
AAP |
IFALPA Accident Analysis & Prevention Committee |
|
AAPA |
Association of Asia Pacific Airlines |
|
AARA |
Amsterdam-Antwerp-Rotterdam Area |
|
AAS |
advanced automation system (FAA) |
|
AASA |
Air Lines Association of Southern Africa |
|
AASC |
Airport Authorities Steering Committee |
|
AASR |
Aging Aircraft Safety Rule |
|
AAT |
Associate Administrator for Air Traffic |
|
aatf |
Airworthiness Assurance Task Force |
|
AATT |
Advanced Aviation Transportation Technology |
|
ABAFT |
Toward the rear of the ship |
|
ABAS |
Aircraft-based Augmentation System |
|
ABDIS |
Automated Data Interchange System Service |
|
ABET |
Airspace Behavioural Engineering Technology |
|
ABET |
Airspace Behavioral Engineering Technology |
|
ABM |
Abeam |
|
ABOARD |
On or within the ship |
|
ABOVE DECK |
On the deck |
|
ABT |
About |
|
ABV |
Above |
|
AC |
Air Canada |
|
AC |
Altocumulus |
|
AC |
Advisory Circular |
|
ACA |
Austrian Cockpit Association |
|
ACAA |
Air Carrier Association of America |
|
ACAC |
Arab Civil Aviation Council |
|
ACAIS |
Air Carrier Activity Information System |
|
ACAMS |
Aircraft Condition Analysis and Management System |
|
ACARS |
Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System |
|
ACAS |
Airborne Collision and Avoidance System |
|
ACAS |
Aircraft Collision Avoidance System |
|
ACAS |
Airborne Collision Avoidance System |
|
ACC-PC |
ACC Planning Controller |
|
ACC-TC |
ACC Tactical Controller |
|
ACCC |
Australian Competition Consumer Commission |
|
ACCID |
Notification of an aircraft accident |
|
ACCS |
Air Command and Control System |
|
ACCT |
Accounting Records |
|
ACCUM |
Accumulate |
|
ACD |
Automatic Call Distributor |
|
ACDAC |
Asociacion Colombiana de Aviadores Civiles |
|
ACDMD |
Air Collaborative Decision Making Demonstrator |
|
ACDO |
Air Carrier District Office |
|
ACE |
Allied Command Europe's |
|
ACE |
Central Region |
|
ACEP |
Airport Capacity Enhancement Plan |
|
ACF |
Area Control Facility |
|
ACFO |
Aircraft Certification Field Office |
|
ACFS |
Advanced Concepts Flight Simulator |
|
ACFT |
Aircraft |
|
ACG |
Advanced Concept Group |
|
ACG |
ATN/CNS Consultancy Group |
|
ACH |
ATC Flight Plan Change |
|
ACH |
Air traffic control Flight Plan Change |
|
ACI |
Airports Council International |
|
ACI-NA |
Airports Council International-North America |
|
ACID |
Aircraft Identification |
|
ACIPLA |
Asociacian Civil de Pilotos de Lineas Aereas |
|
ACK |
Acknowledge (telecommunications; Cf. NAK) |
|
ACL |
Altimeter Check Location |
|
ACL |
Air Traffic Control Clearance |
|
ACLT |
Actual Landing Time Calculated |
|
ACM |
Acceptable Means of Compliance |
|
ACM |
Airspace Control Measures |
|
ACMS |
Aircraft Condition Monitoring System |
|
ACN |
Airspace Co-ordination Notification |
|
ACN |
Aircraft Classification Number |
|
ACNZ |
Airways Corporation of New Zealand Ltd |
|
aco |
Airspace Co-ordination Order |
|
ACOD |
Area Conflict Detection |
|
ACP |
Accept Message |
|
ACPO |
Aircraft Position Operator |
|
ACPT |
Accept |
|
ACR |
Air Carrier |
|
ACR |
Atlantic Co-ordinated Route |
|
ACR |
FAA Office of Civil Rights |
|
ACRP |
Airport Cooperative Research Program |
|
ACRPWG |
Aircraft Crash Recovery Procedures Working Group |
|
ACS |
airspace control system |
|
ACSA |
Allied Communications Security Agency |
|
ACSE |
Application Control Service Element |
|
ACSEP |
Aircraft Certification Systems Evaluation Program |
|
ACT |
William J. Hughes Technical Center |
|
ACT |
Active |
|
ACTF |
Aeronautical Charting Task Force |
|
ACU |
Antenna Control Unit |
|
ACYC |
Anticyclonic |
|
AD |
airworthiness directives (FAA) |
|
AD |
Aerodrome |
|
ADA |
Advisory Area |
|
ADA |
Air Defense Area |
|
ADAP |
Airport Development Aid Program |
|
ADC |
Air Data Computer |
|
ADC |
Air Defense Command |
|
ADCCP |
Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures |
|
ADCOM |
Address Commission |
|
ADDA |
Administrative Data |
|
ADDENDUM |
Additional chartering terms at the end of a charter party |
|
ADDS |
Aviation Digital Data Service |
|
ADEP |
Aerodrome of Departure |
|
ADES |
Aerodrome of Destination |
|
ADF |
Automatic Direction Finder |
|
ADF |
Automatic Direction Finding |
|
ADI |
Automatic De-Ice and Inhibitor |
|
ADI |
Attitude Director lndicator |
|
ADIC |
ATS Interfacility Data Communications |
|
ADIN |
AUTODIN Service |
|
ADIRS |
Air Data Inertial Reference System |
|
ADIS |
Automatic dependent surveillance and Data Link Interim System |
|
adisp |
Automated Data Interchange Systems Panel |
|
ADIZ |
Air Defence Identification Zone |
|
ADIZ |
Air Defense Identification Zone |
|
ADL |
Aeronautical Data-Link |
|
ADLP |
Aircraft Data Link Processor |
|
ADLY |
Arrival Delay |
|
ADM |
Aeronautical Decision Making |
|
ADMA |
Aviation Distributors and Manufactureres Association |
|
ADO |
IFALPA Aircraft Design & Operation Committee |
|
ADP |
Automated Data Processing |
|
ADREP |
Aircraft Accident/Incident Data Reporting System |
|
ADS |
automatic dependent surveillance |
|
ADS-B |
Automatic Data Surveillance Broadcast |
|
ADS-B |
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast |
|
ADS-C |
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Contract |
|
ADS-C |
Automatic Data Surveillance Contract |
|
ADS-P |
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Panel |
|
ADS-R |
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Report |
|
ADSEL |
Address Selective SSR System |
|
ADSIA |
Allied Data Systems Interoperability Agency |
|
ADSIM |
Airfield Delay Simulation Model |
|
ADSP |
ADS Processor |
|
ADSP |
Automatic Dependent Surveillance Panel |
|
ADSU |
ADS Unit |
|
ADSY |
Administrative Equipment Systems |
|
ADT |
Air Data Tester |
|
ADTI |
Additional Technical Information |
|
ADTN |
Administrative Data Transmission Network |
|
ADTN2000 |
Administrative Data Transmission Network 2000 |
|
ADUG |
Airport Database User Group |
|
ADV |
Advise |
|
ADVCTN |
Advection |
|
ADVO |
Administrative Voice |
|
ADVON |
Advanced Echelon |
|
ADVY |
Advisory |
|
ADZ |
Advise |
|
ADZD |
Advised |
|
ADZY |
Advisory |
|
AE |
Application Entity |
|
AEA |
Eastern Region |
|
AEA |
Association of European Airlines |
|
AECB |
Atomic Energy Control Board |
|
AECG |
ACAS Evaluation and Co-ordination Group |
|
AED |
Automated external defibrillator |
|
AEDT |
Aviation Environmental Design Tool |
|
AEE |
FAA Office of Environment and Energy |
|
AEEC |
Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (ARINC) |
|
AEFMP |
Algeria, Spain, France, Maroc, Portugal Project |
|
AEG-TFK |
AEG-Telefunken |
|
AEGIS |
Airborne Early Warning Ground Environment Integrated Segment |
|
AEM |
Airports & Environment Management |
|
AENA |
Spanish Airport and Air navigation Administration |
|
AEP |
FAA Office of Aviation Policy Planning and Environment |
|
AERA |
Automated Enroute ATC |
|
AERA |
Automated En Route Air |
|
AEREA |
Association of European Research Establishments in Aeronautics |
|
AEROSAT |
Aeronautical Satellite Council |
|
AES |
Airborne Earth Station |
|
AEV |
Annual Equivalent Value |
|
AEW |
Airborne Early Warning |
|
AEWPD |
Adapted EATM Work Programme Document |
|
AEX |
Automated Execution |
|
AF |
Air France |
|
AF |
Air Force |
|
AFA |
Association of Flight Attendants |
|
AFAS |
Aircraft in the Future ATM System |
|
AFAST |
Active Final Approach Spacing Tool |
|
AFB |
Air Force Base (USAF) |
|
AFC |
Airport Facilities Control |
|
AFC |
Air Traffic Control Frequency Change |
|
AFCAC |
African Civil Aviation Commission |
|
AFCNF |
Air Force Central NOTAM Facility |
|
AFCS |
Automatic Flight Control System |
|
AFD |
Associated Flight Details |
|
AFD |
Airport Facility Directory |
|
AFDK |
After Dark |
|
AFDS |
Autopilot Flight Director System |
|
AFDSS |
Air Fix Data Sub Set |
|
AFER |
Aircraft Fuel Expense Reconciliation System |
|
AFFREIGHTMENT |
The hiring of a ship in whole or part |
|
AFFSC (E) |
Air Forces Flight Safety Committee (Europe) |
|
AFG |
Advisory Financial Group |
|
AFI |
Africa-Indian Ocean Region |
|
AFIL |
Air Filed Flight Plan |
|
AFIS |
Aerodrome Flight Information Service |
|
AFIS |
Automated Flight Inspection System |
|
AFIS |
Airport Flight Information Service |
|
AFISO |
Aerodrome Flight Information Service Officer |
|
AFIZ |
Aerodrome Flight information Zone |
|
AFL |
Assigned Flight Level |
|
AFL |
Actual Flight Level |
|
AFM |
Aeroplane Flight Manual |
|
AFM |
Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing |
|
AFMS |
Automatic Flight Management System |
|
AFMT |
Airway Facilities Management Team |
|
AFN |
air traffic services facilities notification |
|
AFO |
Airport Field Office |
|
afp |
Area Forecast Panel |
|
AFRAA |
African Airlines Association |
|
AFRES |
Air Force Reserve Station |
|
AFS |
Automatic Flight System |
|
AFS |
Aeronautical Fixed Service |
|
AFSFO |
AFS Field Office |
|
AFSFU |
AFS Field Unit |
|
AFSOU |
AFS Field Office Unit |
|
AFSPS |
Arrival First Sea Pilot Station |
|
AFSS |
Automated Flight Service Station |
|
AFT |
At or towards the stern or rear of a ship |
|
AFTIL |
Airway Facilities Tower Integration Laboratory |
|
AFTN |
Automated Fixed Telecommunications Network |
|
AFZ |
Resource Management |
|
AGA |
Aerodromes, Air Routes and Ground Aids |
|
AGAS |
European Action Group for ATM Safety |
|
AGATE |
Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (NASA) |
|
AGC |
FAA Office of the Chief Counsel |
|
AGE |
IFALPA Aerodrome & Ground Environment Committee |
|
AGHME |
Aircraft Geometric Height Measurement Element |
|
AGI |
FAA Office of Government and Industry Affairs |
|
AGL |
Above Ground Level |
|
AGROUND |
Touching or fast to the bottom |
|
AGW |
All Going Well |
|
AHL |
Australian Hold Ladders |
|
AHR |
FAA Office of Human Resources |
|
AHRS |
Attitude Heading Reference System |
|
AI |
Application Interface |
|
AIC |
Aeronautical Information Circular |
|
AICS |
Aircraft Inventory and Charter System |
|
AID |
Airport Information Desk |
|
AIDC |
Air traffic control Inter-Facility Ground Data Communications |
|
AIDS |
Airborne Integrated Data Systems |
|
AIDS TO NAVIGATION |
Artificial objects to supplement natural landmarks indicating safe and unsafe waters |
|
AIFSS |
Automated International Flight Service Station |
|
AIG |
Accident Investigation & Prevention |
|
AIG |
Airbus Industries Group |
|
AILS |
Automatic Instrument Landing System |
|
AIM |
Aeronautical Information Management |
|
AIM-FANS |
Airbus Interoperable Modular FANS |
|
AIMS |
Aircraft Integrated Monitoring System |
|
AIMS |
Aircraft Information Management System |
|
AIMS |
Airplane Information Management System |
|
AIP |
Aeronautical Information Publication |
|
AIPA |
Aeronautical Information Production Application |
|
AIPN |
Appointing authority |
|
AIR |
Aircraft Certification Service |
|
AIR 4653 |
Aerospace Information Report 4653 |
|
AIRAC |
Aeronautical Information Regulation and Control |
|
AIRc |
Aeronautical Information and Control |
|
AIRCOM |
Air Communications |
|
AIRCOM |
Aircraft Communications |
|
AIREP |
Air-Report |
|
AIREP |
Plain language form of Air Report |
|
AIRMET |
Air Meteorological Information Report which may affect the safety of low-level aircraft operations |
|
AIRMET |
Airmen's Meteorological Information |
|
AIRNAV |
Airports and Navigation Aids Database System |
|
AIRNET |
Airport Network Simulation Model |
|
AIRPAC |
Advisor for the Intelligent Resolution of Predicted Aircraft |
|
AIRPROX |
The code word used in air traffic incident report to designate aircraft proximity |
|
AIRS |
Advanced Infrared Sounder |
|
Airspace |
and Traffic Management |
|
AIRSTRM |
Assuring the Implementation of Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radio-active Materials |
|
AIS-TF |
AIS Training Task Force |
|
AISAP |
AIS Automation Specialist Panel |
|
AISAS |
Aeronautical Information Services Automated System |
|
AISC |
Aeronautical Industry Service Communication |
|
AISG |
AIS Automation Group |
|
AISPOP |
AIS Planning and Operations Subgroup |
|
AISS |
Aeronautical Information Server System |
|
AISU |
Aeronautical Information Service Unit |
|
AIT |
Automated Information Transfer |
|
AITS |
Automated Inventory Tracking System |
|
AITSC |
Administrative IT Steering Committee |
|
AIXM |
Aeronautical Information Exchange Model |
|
AJA |
Acquisition & Business Services, Air Traffic Organization |
|
AJC |
Communications Services, Air Traffic Organization |
|
AJE |
En Route & Oceanic Service, Air Traffic Organization |
|
AJF |
Finance Services, Air Traffic Organization |
|
AJO |
Chief Operating Officer, Air Traffic Organization |
|
AJP |
Operations Planning Services, Air Traffic Organization |
|
AJR |
System Operations Services, Air Traffic Organization |
|
AJS |
Safety Services, Air Traffic Organization |
|
AJT |
Terminal Service, Air Traffic Organization |
|
AJW |
Technical Operation Services, Air Traffic Organization |
|
AKARD |
Available Knowledge And required system Research and Development |
|
AL |
Allegheny |
|
AL |
Approach Lights |
|
al |
Aircraft Label |
|
ALA |
Alighting Area |
|
ALB |
Alternative Label |
|
ALCC |
Airlift Central Co-ordination Centre |
|
ALCE |
Airlift Control Element |
|
ALCM |
Air Launched Cruise Missile |
|
ALD |
Airlift Division |
|
ALERFA |
alert phase |
|
Alert |
Alert phase |
|
ALF |
Aloft |
|
ALIM |
Altitude Limit |
|
ALLA |
Allied Long-Lines Agency |
|
ALMC |
Airlift Movement Cell |
|
ALO |
Air Force Liaison Officer |
|
ALO |
Aviation Logistics Organization |
|
ALOFT |
Above the deck of the ship |
|
ALP |
Airport Layout Plan |
|
ALPA |
As the Air Line Pilots Association |
|
ALPA |
Japan Air Line Pilots Association of Japan |
|
ALPA |
Airlines Pilots Association |
|
ALPA |
Asociacion de Pilotos de Lineas Aereas |
|
ALPA-A |
Air Line Pilots Association of Armenia |
|
ALPA-E |
Air Line Pilots Association of Ethiopia |
|
ALPA-FYROM |
Air Line Pilots Association of The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
|
ALPA-Int |
Air Line Pilots Association - International |
|
ALPA-K |
Air Line Pilots Association of Korea |
|
ALPA-M |
Airline Pilots Association - Malta |
|
ALPA-S |
Air Line Pilots Association - Singapore |
|
ALPA-SA |
Air Line Pilots Association - South Africa |
|
ALPA-SL |
Air Line Pilots Association of Slovenia |
|
ALPAP |
Air Line Pilots Association of the Philippines |
|
alpl |
Association Luxembourgeoise des Pilotes de Ligne |
|
ALQDS |
All Quadrants |
|
ALR |
Alerting message |
|
ALR |
IFALPA's Airport Liaison Representative Program |
|
ALRS |
Approach Lighting System |
|
ALRS |
Alerting Service |
|
ALRT |
Alert |
|
ALS |
approach lighting system |
|
ALSEC |
All Sectors |
|
ALSF |
Approach Lighting System With Sequenced Flashing Lights |
|
ALSF-2 |
High Intensity Approach Lighting Systerm with Sequenced Flashing Lights. |
|
ALSF1 |
ALS with Sequenced Flashers I |
|
ALSF2 |
ALS with Sequenced Flashers II |
|
ALSIP |
Approach Lighting System Improvement Plan |
|
ALSTG |
Altimeter Setting |
|
ALT |
Alternate |
|
ALT |
Airborne Link Terminal |
|
ALT |
Altitude |
|
ALT HOLD |
Altitude Hold Mode |
|
ALTM |
Altimeter |
|
ALTN |
Alternate |
|
ALTNLY |
Alternately |
|
ALTRV |
Altitude Reservation |
|
AM |
AeroMexico |
|
AMA |
Area Minimum Altitude |
|
AMASS |
Airport Movement Area Safety System |
|
AMC |
Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center |
|
AMC |
Air Traffic Control Microphone Check |
|
AMCP |
Aeronautical Mobile Communications Panel |
|
AMDA |
Airlines Medical Directors Association |
|
AMIC |
Area Manager in Charge |
|
AMIDSHIPS |
In or toward the centre of the ship |
|
AMIS |
Aircraft Management Information System |
|
AMOC |
Alternative Methods of Compliance |
|
AMOS |
Automated Meteorological Observation Station |
|
AMOSA |
Association of Aviation Maintenance Organisations of Southern Africa |
|
AMPL |
Association Marocaine de Pilots de Ligne |
|
AMS |
Acquisition Management System |
|
AMSL |
Above Mean Sea Level |
|
AMSS |
Aeronautical Mobile Satellite Service |
|
AMSS |
Aeronautical Mobile Satellite System |
|
AMSSP |
Aeronautical Mobile Satellite Service Panel |
|
AMT |
Aviation Maintenance Technician |
|
AMVER |
Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue system |
|
ANA |
All Nippon Airways |
|
ANC |
Air Navigation Commission |
|
ANC |
Alternate Network Connectivity |
|
ANCA |
Airport Noise and Capacity Act |
|
ANConf |
Air Navigation Conference |
|
AND |
Associate Administrator for NAS Development |
|
ANE |
New England Region |
|
ANG |
Air National Guard |
|
ANGB |
Air National Guard Base |
|
ANM |
Northwest Mountain Region |
|
ANM |
ATFM Notification Message |
|
ANMS |
Automated Network Monitoring System |
|
ANOVA |
Analysis of Variance (statistics) |
|
ANP |
Air Navigation Plan |
|
ANPAC |
Associazione Nazionale Piloti Aviazione Commerciale |
|
anpp |
Air Navigation Plan Publication |
|
ANS |
Answer |
|
ans |
Air Navigation Service |
|
ANS/CR |
Air Navigation Services of the Czech Republic |
|
ANSA |
International Advisory Group Air Navigation Services |
|
ANSEP |
Air Navigation Services Economics Panel |
|
ANSI |
American National Standards Institute, Inc. |
|
ANSIR |
Advanced Navigation System Inertial Reference |
|
ANSO |
Air Navigation Services Offices |
|
ANSP |
Air Navigation Service Provider |
|
ANSPs |
Air Navigation Service Providers |
|
ANT |
Airspace and Navigation Team |
|
ANT |
Air Navigation Team |
|
ANTHAM |
Antwerp-Hamburg Range |
|
AO |
Aircraft Operator |
|
ao |
Airlines Operator |
|
AO |
Authorizing Official |
|
AOA |
Airport Operations Area |
|
AOA |
Aircraft Operating Agency |
|
aoa |
Aircrew Officers Association |
|
AOAS |
Advanced Oceanic Automation System |
|
AOB |
Air Order of Battle |
|
AOC |
Aerodrome Obstacle Chart |
|
AOC |
Aeronautical Operation Control |
|
AOC |
Aircraft Operating Company |
|
AOC |
Aircraft Operations Centre |
|
AOC |
Aeronautical Operational Communications |
|
AOC |
Airline Operation Control |
|
AOC |
Airline Operational Control |
|
AOCC |
aircraft operator control centre |
|
AOCC |
Atlantic Operations Control Center |
|
AOCI |
Airport Operators Council International |
|
AOCP |
Airborne Operational Computer Programme |
|
AOCS |
Attitude and Orbit Control System |
|
AOCU |
aircraft operator control unit |
|
AODR |
Authorizing Official Designated Representative |
|
AoF |
Allocation of Functions |
|
AOG |
Aircraft On Ground |
|
AOI |
Area of Operational Interest; TERPS Office (USAF) |
|
AOIS |
Aeronautical Operational Information System |
|
AOM |
Aircraft Operations Manual |
|
AOM |
Aircraft Operating Manual |
|
AOP |
Aeronautical OSI Profile |
|
AOP |
NAS Operations |
|
AOPA |
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association |
|
AOPA |
Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations |
|
AOPG |
Aerodrome Operations Group |
|
AOPG |
Aerodrome Operations Planning Group |
|
AOPTF |
Aerodrome Operations Task Force |
|
AOR |
Area of Responsibility. The assigned area to any given unit. |
|
AOR-E |
Atlantic Ocean Region East |
|
AOR-W |
Atlantic Ocean Region West |
|
AORTF |
ATM Added Functionality Operational Requirements Task Force |
|
AOS |
FAA Operational Support Service |
|
AOS |
Airport Operations Strategy Drafting Group |
|
AOT |
Airport Operations Team |
|
AOU |
Aircraft Operator Unit |
|
AOV |
Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service |
|
AOWIR |
Aircraft Operator What-If Re-routing |
|
AOWP |
Airport Operations Work Plan |
|
AP |
Airport Protection |
|
AP |
Autopilot |
|
ap |
Airport Patrol |
|
AP |
Airport Plaza |
|
AP |
Airport |
|
APA |
Allied Pilots Association |
|
APA(CV) |
Air Line Pilots Association (Cape Verde) |
|
APANPIRG |
Asia/Pacific Air Navigation Planning and Implementation Regional Group |
|
APAPI |
Abbreviated Precision Approach Path Indicator |
|
APATSI |
Airport/air traffic system interface |
|
APATSI |
Airport / Air Traffic Systems Interface |
|
APB |
Acquisition Program Baselines |
|
APB |
APATSI Project Board |
|
APC |
Aeronautical Passenger Communication |
|
APDSG |
Airspace Planning & Development Sub-Group |
|
APEC |
Aircraft Performance Evaluation & Certification |
|
APG |
Asosiasi Pilot Garuda |
|
APGSL |
Air Line Pilots Guild of Sri Lanka |
|
API |
Advanced Passenger Information |
|
API |
FAA Office of International Aviation |
|
APIRG |
African Planning and Implementation Regional Planning Group |
|
APLRIM |
Association des Pilotes de Lignes de Mauritanie |
|
APM |
approach path monitor |
|
APM |
Accident Prevention Manual |
|
APMS |
Automated Performance Measurement System |
|
apn |
apron |
|
APP |
Approach Control |
|
APPA |
Asociacion Profesional de Pilotos Aviadores de Costa Rica |
|
APPLA |
Associacao Pilotos Portugueses Linha Aerea |
|
APPR |
Approach |
|
APR |
April River Airport, April River, Papua New Guinea |
|
APRT |
Airport |
|
APS |
Arrival Pilot Station |
|
APS |
Airport Planning Standard |
|
APU |
Auxiliary Power Unit |
|
APV |
Approach with Vertical Guidance |
|
AQAFO |
Aeronautical Quality Assurance Field Office |
|
AQM |
Aircom Quality Performance |
|
AQP |
Advanced Qualification Program |
|
AQS |
FAA Office of Quality, Integration and Executive Services |
|
ar |
Administrative Recommendation |
|
ARA |
Administrator for Research and Acquisition |
|
ARAC |
Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (FAA) |
|
ARAG |
Amsterdam Rotterdam Antwerp Gent Range |
|
ARASCNAC |
Air traffic services Routes for Aircraft with Self-contained Navigational Capabilities |
|
ARC |
Area Chart |
|
ARCP |
Aerodrome Reference Code Panel |
|
ARCTR |
Aeronautical Center |
|
AREA |
Automated En Route Air Traffic Control |
|
ARF |
Airport Reservation Function |
|
ARFF |
Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting |
|
ARINC |
Aeronautical Radio Incorporated |
|
ARINC 306 |
Guidance For Designers Of Aircraft-Electronic Installations |
|
ARINC 307 |
Aircraft Integrated Data System Wire Bundle Provisions |
|
ARINC 404A |
Air Transport Equipment Cases And Racking |
|
ARINC 406A |
Airborne Electronic Equipment |
|
ARINC 408A |
Air Transport Indicator Cases And Mounting |
|
ARINC 413A |
Guidance For Aircraft Power Utilisation And Transient Protection |
|
ARINC 414 |
General Guidance For Equipment And Installation Engineers |
|
ARINC 415 |
Operation/Technical Guidelines On Failure Warning and Functional Test |
|
ARINC 419 |
Digital Data System Compendium |
|
ARINC 421 |
Guidance For Standard Subdivision of ATA Spec 100 Numbering System for Avionics |
|
ARINC 422 |
Guidance For Modification Status Indicators & Avionics Service Bulletins |
|
ARINC 424 |
Navigation System Data Base |
|
ARINC 429 |
Mark 33 Digital Information Transfer System |
|
ARINC 528 |
Airborne Tape Recorder |
|
ARINC 533A |
Airborne HF SSB/AM System |
|
ARINC 541 |
Airborne Magnetic Flight Data Recorder |
|
ARINC 542 |
Airborne Oscillograph Flight Data Recorder |
|
ARINC 542A |
Digital Flight Data Recorder |
|
ARINC 551 |
Airborne Glide Slope Receiver - Mark 2 |
|
ARINC 557 |
Airborne Voice Recorder |
|
ARINC 559A |
Mark 2 Airborne HF SSB/AM System |
|
ARINC 561 |
Air Transport Inertial Navigation System - INS |
|
ARINC 566 |
Airborne VHF Communications Transceiver And Mark 1 VHF SATCOM System |
|
ARINC 566A |
Mark 3 VHF Communications Transceiver |
|
ARINC 569 |
Heading and Altitude Sensor |
|
ARINC 569 |
Airborne Distance Measuring Equipment |
|
ARINC 571 |
Inertial Reference System |
|
ARINC 572 |
Mark 2 Air Traffic Control Transponder |
|
ARINC 573 |
Aircraft Integrated Data System Mark |
|
ARINC 574 |
Passenger Announcement, Entertainment & Service Multiplex System |
|
ARINC 575 |
Mark 3 Subsonic Air Data System |
|
ARINC 576 |
Mark 4 Subsonic Air Data System |
|
ARINC 577 |
Audible Warning System |
|
ARINC 578 |
Airborne ILS Receiver |
|
ARINC 579 |
Airborne VOR Receiver |
|
ARINC 585 |
Electronic Chronometer System |
|
ARINC 591 |
Quick Access Recorder For Aids System |
|
ARINC 592 |
Airborne Passenger Tape Record |
|
ARINC 594 |
Ground Proximity Warning System |
|
ARINC 595 |
Barometric Altitude Rate Computer |
|
ARINC 596 |
Mark 2 Airborne SELCAL System |
|
ARINC 597 |
Aircraft Communications Addressing And Reporting System |
|
ARINC 597A |
Enhanced ACARS Avionics |
|
ARINC 59MA |
Airborne Announcement Tape Reproducer |
|
ARINC 600 |
Air Transport Avionics Equipment Interfaces |
|
ARINC 601 |
Control/Display Interfaces |
|
ARINC 602 |
Test Equipment Guidance |
|
ARINC 602A |
Test Equipment Guidance |
|
ARINC 603 |
Airborne Computer Data Loader |
|
ARINC 604 |
Guidance For Design And Use Of built-In Test Equipment |
|
ARINC 605 |
Users Guide For ARINC 616 Avionics Subset Of ATLAS Language |
|
ARINC 606 |
Guidance For Electrostatic Sensitive Device Utilisation & Protection, Sup. 1 |
|
ARINC 608 |
Standard Modular Avionics Repair And Test System |
|
ARINC 609 |
Design Guidance For Aircraft Electrical Power Systems |
|
ARINC 610 |
Guidance For Design and Integration of Aircraft Avionics Equipment In Simulators, Supplement 1 |
|
ARINC 740 |
Multiple-Input Cockpit Printer |
|
ARINC 7411P2 |
Aviation Satellite Communication System: Part 2 - Satellite Design |
|
ARINC 741P1 |
Aviation Satellite Communication System:Part I- Aircraft Installation Provisions |
|
ARINC 741P4 |
Aviation Satellite Communications System:Part 4 - Specification and Description Language |
|
ARINC 742 |
Design Guidance For Windshear Warning and Guidance Equipment |
|
ARINC 743 |
Airborne Global Positioning System Receiver |
|
ARINC 743A |
GPS/GLONASS Sensor |
|
ARINC 744 |
Full Format Printer |
|
ARINC 745 |
Automatic Dependent Surveillance, Supplement 1 |
|
ARINC 746 |
Cabin Communications System, Supplement |
|
ARINC 747 |
Flight Data Recorder |
|
ARINC 748 |
Communications Management Unit |
|
ARINC 750 |
VHF Data Radio |
|
ARINC 751 |
Gate-Aircraft Terminal Environment Link - Aircraft Side |
|
ARINC 752 |
TFTS Airborne Radio Sub-System |
|
ARINC 753 |
HF Data Link System |
|
ARINC 757 |
Cockpit Voice Recorder |
|
ARINC539A |
Airborne 400 Hz AC Tape Reproducer |
|
ARITRM |
Assessment of the Radiological Impact from the Transport of Radioactive Materials |
|
ARLNO |
Airline Office |
|
ARLO |
Air Liaison Officer |
|
ARM |
FAA Office of Rulemaking |
|
ARM |
Airspace Risk Model |
|
ARM |
Air Request Message |
|
ARMATS |
State Closed Joint-Stock Company of Armenian Air Traffic Services |
|
ARN |
ATS Routes and Associated Navigation Means |
|
ARN-1 (Table) |
Basic ATS Route Network in the Lower and Upper Airspace |
|
ARN-2 (Table) |
Radio Navigation Aids Associated with the Basic ATS Route Network Terminal Area and Instrument Approach Procedures |
|
ARN-V2 |
ATS Route Network - Version 2 |
|
ARN-V3 |
ATS Route Network - Version 3 |
|
ARNG |
Arrange |
|
ARO |
Air Traffic Services Reporting Office |
|
ARO |
Airport Reservation Office |
|
ARO |
Air Traffic Service Reporting Office |
|
ARP |
Aerospace Recommended Practice |
|
ARP |
Aerodrome Reference Point |
|
ARPA |
Advanced Research Projects Agency (made early internet) |
|
arpa |
Advanced Research Project Agency's |
|
ARPL |
ADEXP Format Repetitive Flight Plans Message |
|
ARQ |
Automatic error Correction |
|
ARQ |
Automatic Request Repeat |
|
ARQ |
Automatic Response to Query |
|
ARR |
Arrive |
|
ARR |
Arrival |
|
ARR SP |
Arrival Sequence Planner |
|
ARS |
Aeronautical Radio Navigation Service |
|
ARSA |
Airport Service Radar Area |
|
ARSA |
Airport Radar Serve Area |
|
ARSC |
Air Rescue Sub Centre |
|
ARSR |
Air Route Surveillance Radar |
|
ARST |
Arresting specify aircraft arresting |
|
ART |
Analysis and Replay Tool |
|
ARTAS |
Air Traffic Management Surveillance Tracker and |
|
ARTAS TF |
ARTAS Task Force |
|
ARTCC |
Air Route Traffic Control Centre |
|
ARTCC |
Air Route Traffic Control Center |
|
Artemis |
An ESA experimental telecommunications |
|
ARTES-9 |
Advanced Research in Telecommunication |
|
ARTS |
Automated Radar Terminal System |
|
ARTS |
Area Radar Training Squadron |
|
ARU |
Airspace Reservation Unit |
|
AS |
Airspeed |
|
as |
Airspace Systems |
|
AS |
Altostratus |
|
ASA |
Airservices Australia |
|
ASAS |
Aviation Safety Analysis System |
|
ASBA |
American Shipbrokers Association |
|
ASC |
AUTODIN Switching Center |
|
ASC |
Aviation Safety Council |
|
ASCII |
American Standard Code for Interface and Interchange |
|
ASCP |
Aviation System Capacity Plan |
|
ASD |
Aircraft Situation Display |
|
ASD |
Air Situation Display |
|
ASDA |
Accelerate-Stop Distance Available |
|
ASDE |
Area Surveillance Detection Equipment |
|
ASDE-X |
Airport Surface Detection Equipment - X (frequency) band |
|
ASE |
Altimetry System Error |
|
ASECNA |
Agence pour la Securité de la Navigation en Afrique et à Madagascar |
|
ASH |
FAA Office of Security & Hazardous Materials |
|
ASI |
Air Speed Indicator |
|
ASI |
Aviation Safety Inspector |
|
ASIAS |
Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing |
|
ASIP |
Aviation VHF-Very High Frequency- Packet Communication Simple Interface Protocol |
|
ASLAR |
Aircraft Surge Launch And Recovery |
|
ASM |
Air Space Management |
|
ASM |
Available Seat Mile |
|
AsMA |
Aerospace Medical Association |
|
ASN |
Advance Shipment Notice |
|
ASO |
Southern Region |
|
ASP |
AIRCOM Service Processor |
|
ASP |
Arrival Sequencing Program |
|
ASPA |
Asociacian Sindical de Pilots Aviadores de Mexico |
|
ASPENN RPG |
Aeronautical Fixed Service Planning Study EUR/NAM/NAT Regional Planning Group |
|
ASPH |
Asphalt |
|
ASPLAB |
Asociacion Sindical de Pilotos del Lloyd Aereo (Bolivia) |
|
ASPM |
Aviation System Performance Metrics |
|
ASPP |
Aeronautical Fixed Service Systems Planning for Data Interchange Panel |
|
ASPW |
Any Safe Port in the World |
|
ASQP |
Airline Service Quality Performance |
|
ASR |
Airport Surveillance Radar |
|
ASR-WSP |
Airport Surveillance Radar-Weather System Processor |
|
ASRS |
Aviation Safety Reporting System |
|
AST |
FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation |
|
ASTA |
Airport Surface Traffic Automation |
|
ASTERIX |
All-purpose Structured Eurocontrol Radar Information Exchange |
|
ASTOR |
Aircraft Simulation for Traffic Operations Research |
|
ASV |
Airline Schedule Vendor |
|
ASW |
Southwest Region |
|
ASW |
Air Situation Window |
|
ASYNC |
Asynchronous |
|
AT |
Air Transport |
|
AT |
Air Traffic |
|
AT |
at an altitude |
|
AT&T |
American Telephone and Telegraph (U.S. company, also known as "Ma Bell") |
|
At&t Asdc |
At&t Agency Service Delivery Center |
|
At&t Csa |
At&t Customer Support Associate |
|
ATA |
Actual Time of Arrival |
|
ATA |
Airport Traffic Area |
|
ATA |
Area Transportation Authority |
|
ATAC |
Airspace Traffic Data Capture |
|
ATAF |
Allied Tactical Air Force (NATO) |
|
ATAFF |
Air Traffic Arbitrated Free Flight |
|
ATAFG |
African Air Traffic Analysis and Forecasting Group |
|
ATAG |
Air Transport Action Group |
|
ATAR |
Automatic Air Reporting |
|
ATARS |
Automatic Traffic Avoidance and Resolution System |
|
ATAS |
Airspace and Traffic Advisory Service |
|
atas |
Air Traffic Advisory Service |
|
ATC |
Air traffic control |
|
ATC-HMI |
Air Traffic Control Human Machine Interface |
|
ATCA |
Air Traffic Control Association, Inc. |
|
ATCA |
Air Traffic Controllers Association |
|
ATCAP |
Air-Traffic Control Automation Panel |
|
ATCAS |
ATC Automated System |
|
ATCBI |
Maintenance of Air Traffic Control Beacon Indicator |
|
ATCC |
Air Traffic Control Centre |
|
ATCCC |
Air Traffic Control Command Center |
|
ATCCC |
Air Traffic Control Command Centre |
|
ATCEUC |
Air Traffic Controllers European Unions Coordination |
|
ATCgram |
Illustration in graph form of the main functional |
|
ATCI |
Airport ATC and Information systems |
|
ATCO |
Air Traffic Controllers Organization |
|
ATCO |
Air Traffic Control Officer |
|
ATCO |
Air Taxi Commercial Operator |
|
ATCOTS |
Air Traffic Control Optimum Training Solutions |
|
ATCRB |
Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon |
|
ATCRBS |
Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System |
|
ATCRU |
Air Traffic Control Radar Unit |
|
ATCS |
Air Traffic Control Specialist |
|
ATCS |
Advanced Train Control Systems |
|
ATCS |
Air Traffic Control Service |
|
ATCSCC |
Air Traffic Control Systems Command Center |
|
ATCSCC |
Air Traffic Control System Command Center |
|
ATCSQ |
ATC Safety Questionnaire |
|
ATCT |
Airport Traffic Control Tower |
|
ATCU |
Air Traffic Control Unit |
|
ATD |
Actual Time of Departure |
|
ATDNSHINC |
Any Time Day/Night Sundays and Holidays Included |
|
ATDS |
Airborne Tactical Data Systems (USN) |
|
ATE |
Automatic Test Engineer |
|
ATFC |
Air Traffic Flow Controller |
|
ATFM |
air traffic flow management |
|
ATFMC |
Air Traffic Flow Management Communications |
|
ATFMO |
Air Traffic Flow Management Organisation |
|
ATFMP |
Air Traffic Flow Management Position |
|
ATFMS |
Air Traffic Flow Management System |
|
ATFMU |
Air Traffic Flow Management Unit |
|
ATFR |
Air Traffic Flow Regulator |
|
ATG |
Air Traffic Generator |
|
ATHR |
Autothrust System |
|
ATHWARTSHIPS |
At right angles to the centreline of the ship |
|
ATI |
Automatic Tracking Initiation |
|
ATIC |
Administrative and Technical Inspection Committee |
|
ATIF |
ATN Trials Infrastructure |
|
ATILO |
Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation |
|
ATIS |
Aerodrome Terminal Information Service |
|
ATIS |
Automatic Terminal Information Service |
|
ATIS-B |
Automatic Terminal Information Service - Broadcast |
|
ATISR |
ATIS Recorder |
|
ATK |
Air Traffic Controller Acknowledgement |
|
ATLA |
Air Transport Licensing Authority |
|
ATLAS |
Air Traffic Land and Air Study |
|
ATLC |
Atlantic |
|
ATM |
Air Transportation Management |
|
atm |
Air Transport Management |
|
ATMAC |
Air Traffic Management Advisory Committee |
|
ATMAS |
Air Traffic Management Automated System |
|
ATMCP |
Air Traffic Management Operational Concept Panel |
|
ATMG |
Airspace and Traffic Management Group |
|
ATMRPP |
ATM Requirements and Performance Panel |
|
ATN |
Aeronautical Telecommunications Network |
|
ATNP |
Aeronautical Telecommunications Network Panel |
|
ATO |
Air Traffic Organization |
|
ATODN |
AUTODIN Terminal |
|
ATOMS |
Air Traffic Operations Management System |
|
ATOP |
Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures |
|
ATOS |
Air Transportation Oversight System |
|
ATOVN |
AUOTVON |
|
atpl |
Air Transport Pilot Licence |
|
ATR |
Air Traffic Requirements |
|
ATREP |
Air Traffic Representative |
|
ATS |
Automatic Throttle System |
|
ATS |
Air Traffic Services |
|
ATSAP |
Air Traffic Safety Action Program |
|
ATSB |
Air Transportation Stabilisation Board Australian Transport Safety Bureau |
|
ATSC |
Air Traffic Service Communications |
|
ATSCCP |
ATS Contingency Command Post |
|
ATSS |
Airway Transportation Systems Specialist |
|
ATSU |
Air Traffic Services Unit |
|
ATTCS |
Automatic Takeoff Thrust Control Systems |
|
ATTIS |
AT&T Information Systems |
|
ATUTC |
Actual Times Used to Count |
|
ATV |
Associazione Tecnici di Volo Aviazione Civile |
|
ATZ |
Aerodrome Traffic Zone |
|
AUG |
August |
|
AUS-ALPA |
Australian Air Line Pilots Association |
|
AUSEP |
Australian RNAV Separation Standards |
|
AUTOB |
Automatic Weather Reporting System |
|
AUTOCAD |
Automatic Computer Aided Design |
|
AUTODIN |
DoD Automatic Digital Network |
|
AutoNav |
Auto-Navigation |
|
AUTOVON |
DoD Automatic Voice Network |
|
AUTOVON |
Automatic Voice Network |
|
AUW |
All Up Weight |
|
AUX |
Auxilliary |
|
AV |
Avianca (Aerovias del Continente Americano) Colombian Airline |
|
AVAIL |
Available |
|
AVBL |
available |
|
AVENUE |
ATM Validation Environment for Use towards |
|
AVG |
Average Voltage Gain |
|
AVGAS |
Aviation Gasoline |
|
AVHRR |
Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer |
|
AVI |
Audio/Video Interleaved Format |
|
AVLC |
Aviation VHR Link Control |
|
AVMED |
Aviation Medicine |
|
AVOL |
aerodrome visibility operational level |
|
AVON |
AUTOVON Service |
|
AVPAC |
Aviation Very High Frequency Packet Communication |
|
AVPAC |
aviation VHF packet communications |
|
AVS |
FAA Office of Aviation Safety |
|
AVSEC |
Aviation Security |
|
AVSI |
Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute |
|
AW/P |
Active Way Point |
|
AWACS |
Airborne Warning And Control System |
|
AWAS |
Automated Weather Advisory Station |
|
AWB |
Air Waybill |
|
AWIPS |
Advanced weather Interactive Processing System (NOAA) |
|
AWIR |
Automatically generated What-If Re-routing |
|
AWIS |
Airport Weather Information |
|
AWO |
All Weather Operations |
|
AWOG |
All Weather Operations Group |
|
AWOP |
All Weather Operations Panel (ICAO) |
|
awos |
Automatic Weather Observing System |
|
AWOS |
Automated Weather Observing System |
|
AWP |
Arrival Waypoint |
|
AWPA |
Australian Women Pilots' Association |
|
AWPG |
Aviation Weather Products Generator |
|
AWS |
Air Weather Station |
|
AWSS |
Automated Weather Sensor System |
|
AWSS |
Automated Weather Sensors System |
|
AWTA |
Advise at What Time Table |
|
AWTT |
Aviation Weather Technology Transfer |
|
AWX |
All Weather Fighter |
|
AWY |
Airway |
|
AXX |
One of the 9 Regional Offices |
|
AY |
Finnair, Oyj - Finland |
|
az |
Aerodrome zone |
|
AZM |
Azimuth |
|
B |
Below |
|
B |
Blue |
|
b&d |
Bearing and Distance |
|
B&H |
Bosnia & Herzegovina |
|
B-RNAV |
Basic Area Navigation |
|
B/C |
Benefit/Cost |
|
B/CRS |
Back Course |
|
B/L |
Bill of Lading |
|
BA |
Braking Action |
|
BA |
Budget Analyst |
|
ba |
Barometric Altitude |
|
BA FAIR |
Braking action Fair |
|
BA NIL |
Braking Action Nil |
|
BA POOR |
Braking Action Poor |
|
BAA |
British Airport Authority |
|
BAD |
Budget Analysis Database |
|
BADA |
Base of Aircraft Data ; Aircraft performance Data |
|
BAF |
Belgian Air Force |
|
BAF |
Bunker Adjustment Factor |
|
Bahamas ALPA |
Bahamas Airline Pilots Association |
|
BALPA |
British Air Line Pilots Association |
|
BANS |
BRITE Alphanumeric System |
|
BAPA |
Bangladesh Airline Pilots Association |
|
BAREBOAT CHTR. |
Bareboat Charter |
|
BARS |
Behaviour Anchored Rating Scales |
|
BART |
Billing Analysis Reporting Tool |
|
BARTCC |
Berlin Air Route Traffic Control Centre |
|
BASE |
Cloud base |
|
Base AM |
Base Arrival Manager |
|
Base AMD |
Base Arrival Manager Display |
|
BASIC |
Basic Contract Observing Station |
|
BASIS |
British Airways Safety Information System |
|
BASOP |
Military Base Operations |
|
BBB |
Before Breaking Bulk |
|
BCA |
Benefit/Cost Analysis |
|
BCC |
Battery Charge Controller |
|
BCR |
Benefit/Cost Ratio |
|
BDAT |
Digitized Beacon Data |
|
BDI |
Both Dates Inclusive |
|
BEAM |
the greatest width of a ship |
|
BeCA |
Belgium Cockpit Association |
|
BELOW |
Beneath the deck |
|
BENDS |
Both Ends (shipping) |
|
BERMS |
Beacon Environmental Remote Monitoring Subsystem |
|
Bi |
Both inclusive |
|
BIM |
Building Information Model |
|
BIMCO |
The Baltic and International Maritime Council |
|
BIP |
Backup Interface Processor |
|
BIT(E) |
Built-ln-Test (Equipment) |
|
BKN |
Broken Sky (METAR Code) |
|
BL |
Blowing (METAR descriptor) |
|
BL |
Bale |
|
BM |
Beam |
|
bm |
Beam, Maximum |
|
BN |
Booking Note |
|
BOB |
Bunker On Board |
|
BOC |
Bell Operating Company |
|
BOD |
Beneficial Occupancy Date |
|
BOFFER |
Best Offer |
|
BORG |
Basic Operational Requirements Group |
|
BOW |
The forward part of a ship |
|
BPB |
Business Plan Builder |
|
bps |
bits per second |
|
BR |
Eva Airways Corporation |
|
BRA |
Bearing, Range and Altitude |
|
BRF |
Brief |
|
BRG |
Bearing |
|
BRI |
Basic Rate Interface |
|
BRITE |
Bright Radar Indicator Tower Equipment |
|
BRK |
Break |
|
BRKG |
Braking |
|
BRKHIC |
Breaks in Higher Overcast |
|
BRL |
Building Restriction Line |
|
BRM |
Barometer |
|
BRNAV |
Basic Air NAVair Traffic Control Unit |
|
BROB |
Bunkers Remaining on Board |
|
BROKERAGE |
Percentage of freight payable to broker |
|
BRT |
Brightness |
|
bs |
Bootstrap Service |
|
BSC |
Binary Synchronous Communication |
|
BSP |
Aircraft Parameter Downlink |
|
BSS |
Best Signal Selection |
|
BSS |
Basis |
|
BSS 1/1 |
Basis 1 Port to 1 Port |
|
BSU |
Beam Steering Unit |
|
bt |
berth terms |
|
BTC |
Basic Training Course |
|
BTEC |
Business and Technician Education Council |
|
BTH (R) |
Beyond the Horizon (Radar) |
|
BTL |
Between layers |
|
BTN |
Between |
|
BTWN |
Between |
|
BUEC |
Back-up Emergency Communications |
|
BUECE |
Back-up Emergency Communications Equipment |
|
BUL-ALPA |
Bulgarian Air Line Pilots Association |
|
BULKHEAD |
A vertical partition separating compartments |
|
BUNKERS |
Name given for vessels Fuel and Diesel Oil supplies |
|
BVR |
Beyond Visual Range |
|
BW |
Bandwidth |
|
BWAD |
Brackish Water Arrival Draft |
|
BWP |
Budget and Work Programme Planning |
|
BY |
Belarus |
|
BYD |
Beyond |
|
C |
Close |
|
C |
Centigrade |
|
c |
Celcius |
|
C&A |
Certification and Accreditation |
|
C-ATSU |
Controlling ATS Unit |
|
C-ATSU |
Current Air Traffic Services Unit |
|
C.O. |
Certificate of Origin |
|
C/A Code |
Course / Acquisition Code |
|
C/d |
Capacity demand ratio |
|
C/M |
Carrier-to Multi-Path Ratio |
|
C/N |
Carrier-To-Noise Ratio |
|
C/N0 |
Carrier-to-Noise-Density Ratio |
|
C/S |
Call Sign |
|
C/S/S/N |
Capacity/Safety/Security/Noise |
|
C102 (TSO) |
Helicopter Radar Approach, Issued 04/02/84 |
|
C87a |
Low Range Radar Altimeters, Issued 01/01 |
|
C91a |
Emergency Locator Transmitter, Issued 04/85 |
|
CA |
Conflict Alert |
|
CAA |
Civil Aviation Authority |
|
CAA NZ |
Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand |
|
CAA PNG |
Civil Aviation Authority of Papua New Guinea |
|
CAA SI |
Civil Aviation Authority of Solomon Islands |
|
CAAC |
Civil Aviation Administration of China |
|
CAAC |
Civil Aviation Authority of China |
|
CAAF |
Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji |
|
CAAFI |
Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative |
|
CAAS |
Certification of Aeroplane Automatic Systems |
|
CAASA |
Commercial Aviation Association of Southern Africa |
|
CAB |
Civil Aeronautics Board |
|
CACRC |
Commercial Aircraft Composite Repair Committee |
|
CAEE |
Committee of Aircraft Engine Emissions |
|
CAEG |
Computer-aided Engineering Graphics |
|
CAeM |
Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology (WMO) |
|
CAEP |
Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection |
|
CAF |
Currency Adjustment Factor |
|
CAI |
Contractor-Acceptance Inspection |
|
CAIRS |
Cable Assignment Information Retrieval System |
|
CAL |
Computer Aided Learning |
|
CALLSGN |
Callsign |
|
CALM |
Computer Assisted Landing Management System |
|
CALPA |
China Airline Pilots Association |
|
CALS |
Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistic Support |
|
CAM |
Conflict Alert Message |
|
CAMA |
Civil Aviation Medical Association |
|
CAMI |
Civil Aeromedical Institute |
|
CAMI |
Civil Aerospace Medical Institute |
|
CAMOS |
Central ARTAS Maintenance & Operational Support |
|
CAMPS |
Computer Aided Message Processing System |
|
CAMUS |
Czech Automated Multi radar System |
|
CAN |
Committee on Aircraft Noise |
|
CAN Proj. |
Croatian Air Navigation Project |
|
CANAC |
Computer Assisted National ATC Centre |
|
CANDI |
Civil Aviation Network Data Interchange |
|
CANSO |
Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation |
|
CAO |
Computer Assisted Operations |
|
CAOFA |
Co-ordination of Air Operations in the Forward Area |
|
CAP |
Study Group on Continuing Airworthiness Problems |
|
CAP |
Civil Air Patrol |
|
CAP |
Combat Air Patrol |
|
CAPA |
Cayman Airline Pilots Association |
|
CAPAN |
Capacity Analyser |
|
CAPC |
Civil Aviation Planning Committee |
|
CAPE |
Computer Assisted Planning Experiment |
|
CAPP |
Client Applications Section |
|
CAPS |
Computer Automated Profiling Systems |
|
CAPSIN |
CAA Packet Switched Integrated Network |
|
CAR |
Civil Aviation Regulations |
|
CAR |
Caribbean Region |
|
CARAT |
Computer-Aided Route Allocation Tool |
|
CARAT |
Center for Aviation Research and Aerospace Technology |
|
CARATS |
Collaborative Actions for Renovation of Air Traffic Systems |
|
CARD |
Conflict and Risk Display |
|
CARS |
Civilian Air Routes System |
|
CARSR |
Common Air Route Surveillance Radar |
|
CART |
Classification And Regression Tree (method In Statistical Analysis) |
|
CARTS |
Common Automated Radar Terminal System |
|
CAS |
Close Air Support |
|
CAS |
Calibrated Air Speed |
|
CAS |
Cost Accounting System |
|
CASA |
Civil Aviation Safety Authority |
|
CASA |
Controller Automated Spacing Aid |
|
CASA |
Computer Assisted Slot Allocation |
|
CASE |
computer-automated software engineering |
|
CASFO |
Civil Aviation Security Office |
|
CASI |
CFMU Aircraft Situation Image |
|
CASOR |
Civil Area Services Operations Room |
|
CASS |
Continuing Analysis and Surveillance System |
|
CASS |
Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar |
|
CASST |
Commercial Aviation Safety Strategic Team |
|
CAST |
Certification Authority Software Team |
|
CASTA |
Controller Associate for Strategic and Technical Advice |
|
CASTLE |
Consolidated Automated System for Time and Labor Entry |
|
CAT |
Clear Air Turbulence |
|
CAT |
Category (e.g. CAT-5 cable) |
|
CAT |
Computer Aided Testing |
|
CAT x |
Category x Precision Approach |
|
CATCAS |
Copenhagen Air Traffic Control Automated System |
|
CATCO |
Chief ATC Operations |
|
CATSA |
Croatian air Traffic Services Authority |
|
CATSIM |
CAA Air Traffic Simulator |
|
CATTS |
Computerized Air Traffic Training System |
|
CATX |
Categorical Exclusion |
|
CAUTRA |
Automated Computer System for Air Traffic |
|
CAVOK |
Clouds and Visibility OK |
|
CAVOK |
Ceiling And Visibility OK (Kav-okay) |
|
CAVU |
Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited |
|
CAWU |
Civil Aviations Workers Union |
|
CBFT |
Cubic Feet |
|
CBI |
Computer Based Instruction |
|
CBM |
Cubic Metres |
|
CBT |
Computer Based Training |
|
CC |
Construction coordinator |
|
CC&O |
Customer Cost & Obligation |
|
CCAA |
Chinese Civil Aviation Association |
|
CCC |
Communications Command Center |
|
CCCC |
Staff Communications |
|
CCCH |
Central Computer Complex Host |
|
CCIF |
Comit? Consultatif International Des Communications T?l?phoniques ? Grande Distance (French For International Telephone Consultative Committee |
|
CCIR |
International Radio Consultative Committee (French Acronym) |
|
CCITT |
Comite Consultatif International de Telegraphique et Telephonique (International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee) [now ITU-T] |
|
CCQ |
Cross Cockpit Qualification |
|
CCS |
Cabin Communications System |
|
CCS7-NI |
Communication Channel Signal-7 Network Interconnect |
|
CCSD |
command communications service designator; control communications service designator |
|
CCU |
Central Control Unit |
|
cd |
Candela |
|
CD-ROM |
Compact Disk - Read Only Memory |
|
CDA |
Continuous Descent Approach |
|
CDA |
Continuous Descent Arrival |
|
CDB |
Corporate Database |
|
CDC |
Computer Display Channel |
|
CDD |
Corporate Data Dictionary |
|
CDFA |
Constant Descent Final Approach |
|
CDI |
Course Deviation Indicator |
|
CDL |
Configuration Deviation List |
|
CDM |
Collaborative Decision Making |
|
CDN |
Coordination |
|
CDPS |
Central Data Processing System |
|
CDR |
Coded Departure Routes |
|
CDR |
Conditional Route |
|
CDR |
Cost Detail Report |
|
CDRA |
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement |
|
CDRL |
Contracts Data Requirements List |
|
CDS |
Controller Display Support |
|
CDS |
Central Dispatch System |
|
CDS |
Cabin Distribution System |
|
CDT |
Command Delivery Time |
|
CDT |
Controlled Departure Time |
|
CDTI |
Cockpit display of traffic information |
|
CDTS |
Console Detailed Technical Specification |
|
CDU |
Control Display Unit |
|
CDU |
Control and Display Unit |
|
CDV |
Compressed Digital Video |
|
CE |
European Commission |
|
CEAC |
Committee of European Airspace Co-ordination |
|
CEAS |
Class E Airspace |
|
CEATS |
Central European Air Traffic Services |
|
CEATS LSG |
Central European Air Traffic Services Legal Sub Group |
|
CEATS UAC |
Central European Air Traffic Services Upper Airspace Control Centre |
|
CEC |
Commission of the European Communities ; |
|
CED |
Categorical Exclusion Determination |
|
CEECs |
Central and Eastern Europe Countries |
|
CEF |
Capacity Enhancement Function |
|
CEFA |
Co-operation for Environmentally Friendly Aviation |
|
CEFA |
Committee for Environmentally Friendly Aviation |
|
CEI |
Cabin Equipment Interfaces |
|
CENA |
Centred Études de la Navigation Aérienne |
|
CENRAP |
Center Radar ARTS Presentation |
|
CENTX |
Central Telephone Exchange |
|
CEP |
Circular Error Probable |
|
CEQ |
Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.) |
|
CER |
Cancel Emergency Mode Request |
|
CES |
Central and Eastern European States |
|
CESA |
Class E Surface Area |
|
CESAR |
Course Evaluation Sheets Analysis and Reporting |
|
CESC |
Chief Executive Standing Conference |
|
CEU |
Central Executive Unit |
|
CEU-E |
Central executive unit with Responsibility for Eastern Europe |
|
CEU-W |
Central executive unit with Responsibility for Western Europe |
|
CEW |
Civil Engineering Works |
|
CF |
Change frequency to |
|
CFAR |
Constant False Alarm Rate |
|
CFB |
Central Flight plan Bank |
|
CFC |
Central Flow Control |
|
CFCF |
Central Flow Control Facility |
|
CFCS |
Central Flow Control Service |
|
CFD |
Change to Flight Data Message |
|
CFDIU |
Central Fault Display Interface Unit |
|
CFDS |
Centralised Fault Display System |
|
CFDS |
Central Flight Data Suite |
|
CFE |
Customer-Furnished Equipment |
|
CFEP |
Communications Front End Processor |
|
CFI |
Certified Flight Instructor |
|
CFII |
Certified Flight Instructor Instrument |
|
CFIT |
Controlled Flight into Terrain |
|
CFL |
Cleared Flight Level |
|
CFMU |
Central Flow Management Unit |
|
CFP |
Cold Front Passage |
|
CFR |
Cost and Freight |
|
CFR |
Crash Fire Resque |
|
CFR |
Code of Federal Regulations |
|
CFWP |
Central Flow Weather Processor |
|
CFWU |
Central Flow Weather Unit |
|
CG |
centre of gravity |
|
CG |
Center of Gravity (DXS) |
|
CGAS |
Coast Guard Air Station |
|
CGL |
Circling Guidance Light |
|
CGL |
Circling Guidance Lights |
|
CGS |
Centimeter-gram-second |
|
CHART |
A map used by navigators |
|
CHI |
Computer-Human Interface |
|
CHOPT |
Charterers Option |
|
CHTRS |
Charterers |
|
CI |
China Airlines - Taiwan |
|
CIDIN |
Common ICAO Data Interchange Network |
|
CIE |
International Commission on Illumination |
|
CIF |
Cost, Insurance, Freight |
|
CIMO |
Committee for Instruments and Methods of Observation |
|
CIO |
Chief Information Officer |
|
CIP |
Carriage and Insurance Paid to |
|
cIP |
Convergence and Implementation Programme |
|
CIP |
Capital Investment Plan |
|
CIR |
Cockpit Image Recorders |
|
CIRM |
International Radio Maritime Committee |
|
CISO |
Chief Information Security Officer |
|
CIT |
Compressor Inlet Temperature |
|
CIWS |
CORRIDOR INTEGRATED WEATHER SYSTEM |
|
CKD |
Completely Knocked Down |
|
Cl |
Cost Index |
|
CLB |
Climb Detent of the Thrust Levers |
|
CLBR |
Calibration |
|
CLC |
Course Line Computer |
|
CLD |
Cloud |
|
CLEEN |
Continuous Lower Energy Emissions and Noise |
|
CLG |
Calling Line |
|
CLKWS |
Clockwise |
|
clnp |
Connection Less Network Protocol |
|
clns |
Connection-Less Network Service |
|
CLOP |
Criminal Liability of Pilots |
|
CLR |
Clear |
|
CLRS |
Clear and Smooth |
|
CLSD |
Closed |
|
CLT |
Calculated Landing Time |
|
CLTP |
Connection Less Transport Protocol |
|
CLW |
Communications List Window |
|
CLX |
OCM Clearance Message |
|
CM |
Configuration Management |
|
cm |
Centimeter |
|
CMA |
Context Management Application |
|
CMA |
Central Monitoring Agency |
|
CMAP |
Center Mapping Automation Program |
|
CMB |
climbing |
|
CMB |
Combined |
|
CMC |
Constant Mach Blimb |
|
CMC |
Central Maintenance Computer |
|
CMCSG |
Civil and Military Co-ordination Sub-Group |
|
CMFO |
Certificate Management Field Office |
|
CMG |
Crisis Management Group |
|
CMIC |
Civil-Military Interface Standing Committee |
|
CMIC |
Civil/Military Interface Committee |
|
CMIP |
Contract Management and Inspection Procedures |
|
CMIP |
Common Management Information Protocol (ATM) |
|
CMIS |
Common Management Information System |
|
CMIS |
Certificate Management Information System |
|
CMMC |
Common Maintenance Monitoring and Control |
|
CMO |
Certificate Management Office |
|
CMOS |
Complementary Metal Oxid Semiconductor |
|
CMPL |
complete |
|
CMS |
Common Modular Simulator |
|
CMSA |
Carrier Sense Multiple Access |
|
CMSND |
Commisissioned |
|
CMT |
Critical Milestone Test |
|
CMTP |
Common Medium Term Plan |
|
CMU |
Communications Management Unit |
|
CMU |
Certificate Management Unit |
|
CMV |
Coverage Measurement Volume |
|
CN |
Change Notice |
|
CNACC |
Common National Area Control Centre |
|
CNATCC |
Common National Air Traffic Control Centre |
|
CNCL |
Cancel |
|
CNDN |
Canadian |
|
Cnee |
Consignee |
|
CNG |
Common Network Group |
|
CNL |
Cancel |
|
CNMPS |
Canadian Minimum Navigation Performance Specification Airspace |
|
CNS |
Communications Navigations and Surveillance |
|
CNS |
Communication, Navigation and Surveillance Systems, Inc. |
|
CNS/ATM |
Communication, Navigation and Surveillance / Air Traffic Management |
|
CNS/ATM-1 |
Communication, Navigation and Surveillance / Air Traffic Management Package 1 |
|
CNSP |
Consolidated NOTAM System Processor |
|
CNTRLN |
Centerline |
|
CNVTV |
Convective |
|
CO |
Continetnal |
|
COA |
Contract Of Affreightment |
|
COACP |
Contract Of Affreightment Charter Party |
|
Cob |
Closing of Business |
|
COBALT |
Common Objective Alignment Team |
|
COBLDN |
Closing of Business London |
|
COBT |
Calculated Off Block Time |
|
COC |
Combat Operations Centre |
|
COCESNA |
Central American Corporation For Air Navigation Service |
|
COCESNA |
Central American Corporation for Air Navigation Services |
|
COCOS |
Computer Controlled SSR Code Assignment |
|
COD |
Cash On Delivery |
|
CODA |
Central Office of Delay Analysis |
|
COE |
Center of Excellence |
|
COGSA |
U.S. Carriage of Goods by Sea Act |
|
COM |
Cockpit Operating Manual |
|
COMCO |
Command Communications Outlet |
|
CON |
Continuous |
|
CONOPS |
Concept of Operations |
|
CONS |
consumption |
|
CONUS |
Continental United States (48 Contiguous States and DC) |
|
COOP |
Continuity of Operations |
|
COP |
Custom of Port |
|
COS |
Chief of Staff |
|
COSAAC |
Common Simulator to Assess ATMF Concepts |
|
COSCAP |
Cooperative Development of Operational Safety and Airworthiness Activities |
|
COSP |
Connection-Oriented Session Protocol |
|
COSU |
Core Systems Unit |
|
COSYNUS |
AIRBUS Training Database |
|
COT |
At the Coast |
|
COTP |
Connection-Oriented Transport Protocol |
|
COTR |
Contracting Officer Technical Representative |
|
COTS |
Commercial Off the Shelf Software |
|
COV |
Cover |
|
CP |
Control Panel |
|
CP |
Circular Polarisation |
|
CP |
charter-party |
|
CP |
conflict probe |
|
CPA |
Chairman's program assessment; closest point of approach |
|
CPAR |
Cockpit Personnel Association of Russia |
|
CPC |
Control and Processing Centre |
|
CPC |
Constant Pitch Climb |
|
CPC |
Certified Professional Controller |
|
CPC |
Circulo de Pilotos de Chile |
|
cpcs |
Certified Professional Controllers |
|
CPCS |
Cabin Pressure Control System |
|
CPCS |
Consolidated Production Control System |
|
cpd |
Charterers Pay Dues |
|
CPD |
Continuous Professional Development |
|
CPD |
Coupled |
|
CPDLC |
Controller Pilot Datalink Communications |
|
CPDLC |
Controller Pilot Data Link Communications |
|
CPE |
Customer Premise Equipment |
|
CPF |
Central Processing Facility |
|
CPI |
Californian Psychological Inventory |
|
CPIC |
Capital Planning and Investment Control |
|
CPL |
Customer Priority Listing |
|
CPL |
Commercial Pilot Licence |
|
CPL |
Commercial Pilots License |
|
CPMIS |
Consolidated Personnel Management Information System |
|
CPR |
Conflict Prediction and Resolution |
|
CPS |
Central Processing System |
|
CPS |
Central Print Service |
|
CPS |
characters per second |
|
CPT |
Carriage Paid To |
|
CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
|
CPU |
Core Processing Unit |
|
CQD |
Customary Quick Despatch |
|
CR |
Current Rate |
|
CR |
Course to a VOR Radial |
|
CR(A)OC |
Central Region (Air) Operations Centre |
|
CRA |
Conflict Resolution Advisory |
|
CRAF |
Central Reservation Airspace Facility |
|
CRAF |
Civil Reserve Air Fleet |
|
CRAFS |
Civilian Request for Airspace and Flight Data System |
|
CRAM |
Conditional Route Availability Message |
|
CRATF |
Communications Requirements Analysis Task Force |
|
CRC |
Control and Reporting Centre |
|
CRC |
Coordinating Research Council (USA) |
|
CRC |
Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check) |
|
CRCO |
Central Route Charges Office |
|
CRD |
Conflict Risk Display |
|
CRDA |
Converging Runway Display Aid |
|
CRE |
Class Rating Examiner |
|
CREME |
Creating the EATCHIP Management Environment |
|
CRF |
Central Repair Facility |
|
CRI |
Class Rating Instructor |
|
CRITTER |
Civil Rotorcraft IFR Terminal-Area Technology Enhancement Research |
|
CRM |
Cockpit Resource Management |
|
CRM |
Crew Research Management |
|
CRM |
Crew Resource Management |
|
CRM |
Collision Risk Methodology |
|
CRMCS |
Central RADNET Monitoring and Control System |
|
CRN |
Crane |
|
crna |
Centre Régional de la Navigation Aérienne |
|
CRO-ALPA |
Croatian Air Line Pilots Association |
|
CROB |
Cargo Remaining on Board |
|
crp |
Co-ordinated Research Programme |
|
CRS |
Course |
|
CRT |
Choice Reaction Time |
|
CRT |
Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV) |
|
CRT |
Cargo Retention Clauses |
|
CRZ |
Cruise |
|
CSC |
Central Service Center |
|
CSD |
Constant Speed Drive |
|
CSER |
Contractor Site Engineering Report |
|
CSI |
Criticality Safety Index |
|
CSIS |
Centralized Storm Information System |
|
CSM |
Consultant Services Meeting |
|
CSMC |
Cyber Security Management Center |
|
CSR |
Communications Service Request |
|
CSS |
Central Site System |
|
CST |
Centistoke |
|
CSTA |
Chief Scientist and Technical Advisor |
|
CSTWRK |
Cost Work |
|
CTA |
Control Area (Air Traffic) |
|
CTA |
Controlled-Time of Arrival |
|
CTA/FIR |
Control Area/Flight Information Region |
|
CTAF |
Common Traffic Advisory Frequency |
|
CTAM |
Climb to and Maintain |
|
CTAS |
Center-TRACON Automation System |
|
CTC |
Centralized Train Central |
|
CTMA |
Center Traffic Management Advisor |
|
CTO |
Calculated Time Over |
|
CTOL |
Conventional Takeoff & Landing |
|
CTR |
Container Fitted |
|
CTR |
Center |
|
CTRL |
Control |
|
CTSKLS |
Catskills |
|
CTU |
Cabin Telecommunications Unit |
|
CU |
Control Unit |
|
CUF |
Cumuliform |
|
CUG |
Closed User Group |
|
CUI |
Committee on Unlawful Interference |
|
CUP |
Computer Utility Program |
|
CUPS |
Consolidated Uniform Payroll System |
|
CUR |
Controller |
|
CUR |
Current Sector |
|
CUST |
Customs |
|
CV |
Curriculum Vitae |
|
CVFR |
Controlled Visual Flight Rules |
|
CVO |
Code Validity Overlap |
|
CVR |
Cockpit Voice Recorder |
|
CVSM |
Conventional Vertical Separation Minimum |
|
CVSRF |
Crew-Vehicle Simulation Research Facility |
|
CVTS |
Compressed Video Transmission Service |
|
CW |
Clockwise |
|
CW |
Carrier Wave |
|
CW |
Continuous Wave |
|
CWAR |
Continuous Wave Acquisition Radar |
|
CWBS |
Contract Work Breakdown Structure |
|
CWDPS |
Central Weather Data Processing System |
|
CWIR |
CFMU Generated What-If Re-routing |
|
CWO |
Contract Weather Observer |
|
CWP |
Controller Working Position |
|
CWS |
Collision Warning System |
|
CWS |
Control Wheel Steering |
|
CWSU |
Central Weather Service Unit |
|
CWY |
Clearway |
|
CX |
Cathay Pacific Airways |
|
CY |
Cyprus Airways Ltd |
|
CYG |
Cyclonic |
|
CYGLGN |
Cyclogenesis |
|
CYPRO |
Cyprus Project for ATC Improvements |
|
CYTA |
Cyprus Telecommunications Authority |
|
CZ |
Czech Republic |
|
CZ-ALPA |
Czech Air Line Pilots Association |
|
CZM |
Conventional Zero Meridian |
|
CZW |
Conflict Zoom Window |
|
D |
Danger Area |
|
D |
Derated |
|
D&D |
Distress and Diversion |
|
D-ATIS |
Digital - Automatic Terminal Information Service |
|
D-ATSU |
A Downstream Air Traffic Services Unit |
|
D-GPS |
Differential Global Positioning System |
|
D-OTIS |
Data Link Operational Terminal Information Service |
|
D-TO Nl |
Derated Takeoff Engine Fan Speed |
|
D.O.T |
Department of Transport |
|
D/A |
Digital-to-Analog |
|
D/D |
Drift Down |
|
D/L |
Data Link |
|
DA |
Disbursement Account |
|
DA |
Decision Altitude |
|
DA |
Descent Advisor |
|
DA/H |
decision altitude/height |
|
DAA |
Dynamic Airspace Allocation |
|
DAAIS |
Danger Area Activity Information Service |
|
DAARWIN |
Distributed ATM Architecture based on |
|
DABBS |
DITCO Automated Bulletin Board System |
|
DABRK |
Daybreak |
|
DABS |
Discrete Address Beacon System |
|
dac |
Direction Aviation Civile |
|
DAC |
Dynamic Air Traffic Control Test |
|
DACS |
Digital Aeronautical Chart Supplement |
|
DACT |
Dissimilar Air Combat Training |
|
DADC |
Digital Air Data Computer |
|
DADS |
Digital Aeronautical Database System |
|
DAF |
Deliver At Frontier |
|
DAF |
Demand Adjustment Factors |
|
DAFIF |
Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File |
|
DAFIS |
Departmental Accounting and Financial Information System |
|
DAI |
Direct Access Intercom |
|
DAIR |
Direct Altitude and Identity Readout |
|
DAISY |
Distributed Airport Information System |
|
DALPA |
Danish Air Line Pilots Association |
|
DALR |
Digital Audio Legal Recorder |
|
DAMFORDET |
Damages for Detention |
|
DANT |
Danish NEAN Project Team |
|
DAP |
download of aircraft parameter |
|
DAPs |
Days all Purposes |
|
DAR |
Designated Agency Representative |
|
DARC |
Direct Access Radar Channel |
|
DARP(S) |
Dynamic Airborne Route Planning (System) |
|
DASI |
Digital Altimeter Setting Indicator |
|
DASR |
Digital Airport Surveillance Radar |
|
DATAC |
Digital Autonomous Terminal Access Communication |
|
DATALINK |
Digitized Information Transfer (air/ground) |
|
DBCRC |
Defense Base Closure & Realignment Commission |
|
DBE |
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise |
|
DBMS |
Data Base Management System |
|
DBRITE |
Digital Bright Radar Indicator Tower Equipment |
|
DBS |
Direct Broadcast Satellite |
|
DCA |
Defensive Counter Air |
|
DCAA |
Dual Call, Automatic Answer Device |
|
DCAA |
Danish Civil Aviation Administration |
|
DCC |
Direct Channel Complex |
|
DCCU |
Data Communications Control Unit |
|
DCD |
Double Channel Duplex |
|
DCE |
Data Circuit-terminating Equipment |
|
DCE |
Data Communication Equipment |
|
DCPC |
Direct Controller-Pilot Communications |
|
DCS |
Double Channel Simplex |
|
DDA |
Dedicated Digital Access |
|
DDB |
Dynamic Database Browser |
|
ddC |
Data Display Console |
|
DDD |
Detailed Design Document |
|
DDE |
Dynamic Data Exchange (in software parlance) |
|
DDL |
Data Description Language |
|
DDM |
Data Display Monitoring |
|
DDM |
Difference in Depth of Modulation |
|
DDP |
Distributed Data Processing |
|
DDP |
Delivered Duty Paid |
|
DDS |
Digital Data Service |
|
DDU |
Display Drive Unit |
|
DDU |
Delivery Duty Unpaid |
|
DE |
Germany |
|
DE-TO Nl |
Derated Takeoff Engine Fan Speed |
|
DE-TO PR |
Derated Takeoff Engine Pressure Ratio |
|
DEA |
Data Exchange Agreement |
|
DEA |
Drug Enforcement Agency |
|
Debrief |
Debriefing |
|
DEC |
December |
|
DEC |
Digital Equipment Corporation |
|
DECR |
Decrement |
|
DED |
Directorate of European Air Traffic Control Harmonisation and Integration Programme Development |
|
DED |
Director EATCHIP Development |
|
DEDS |
Data Entry and Display System |
|
DEE |
Data Entry Equipment |
|
DEEC |
Director of the Eurocontrol Experimental Centre |
|
DEFAMM |
Demonstration Facilities for Airport Movement Management |
|
DEG |
Data Environment Generator |
|
DEG |
Degree |
|
DEGS |
Degrees |
|
DEI |
Directorate EATCHIP Implementation |
|
DEIS |
Draft Environmental Impact Statement (US) |
|
DEL |
Delete |
|
DEM |
German mark |
|
DEM |
Demurrage |
|
DEM |
Digital Elevation Model |
|
DEMETER |
Distance Measuring Equipment Tracer |
|
demo |
Demonstration of Ecosystem Management Options |
|
DEMO |
Demonstration |
|
Dep |
Depart |
|
DEP PROC |
Departure Procedure |
|
DEP TC |
Departure Tactical Controller |
|
DEP-VKL |
Departure Controller |
|
DEPA |
Departure Airfield |
|
DEPCOS |
Departure Coordination System |
|
DEQ |
Delivered Ex Quay (shipping) |
|
DER |
Departure End of the Runway |
|
DERA |
Defense Evaluation and Research Agency |
|
DERD-X |
Display of Extracted Radar Data - Extention |
|
DES |
Delivered Ex Ship |
|
DES |
Descent |
|
DES |
Descend |
|
DESC |
Descending |
|
DESP |
Despatch |
|
DEST |
Destination |
|
DET |
Detention |
|
DETF |
Data Exchange Trest Facility |
|
DETR |
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions |
|
DETRESFA |
distress phase (lCAO) |
|
DEV |
Deviation |
|
DEVD |
CFMU – Development Division |
|
DEWiZ |
Distance Early Warning Identification Zone |
|
DF |
Direction Finder (Finding) |
|
DF |
Direction Finding or Finder |
|
DFAX |
Digital Facsimile |
|
DFDAU |
Digital Flight Data Acquisition Unit |
|
DFDR |
Digital Flight Data Recorder |
|
DFGS/C |
Digital Flight Guidance System/Computer |
|
DFI |
Direction Finding Indicator |
|
DFIS |
Data Link Flight Information Service |
|
DFL |
Dynamic Flight Leg |
|
DFL |
Daily Flight Log |
|
DFL |
Division Flight Level |
|
DFM |
Departure Flow Management |
|
DFRT |
Deadfreight |
|
DFS |
Detailed Functional Specification |
|
DFTI |
Distance-from-Touchdown Indicator |
|
DFW |
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport |
|
DG |
Directional Gyroscope |
|
DG |
double-glass |
|
DGAC |
Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile |
|
DGB |
Dangerous Goods Board |
|
DGCA |
Director-Generals of Civil Aviation |
|
DGELG |
Dangerous Goods European Advisory Group |
|
DGNSS |
Differential Global Navigation Satellite System |
|
DGP |
ICAO Dangerous Goods Panel |
|
DGPS |
Differential GPS |
|
dgrs |
Dangerous Goods Regulations |
|
DGVII |
Directorate General VII |
|
DH |
Decision Height |
|
DHDATSBE |
Despatch Half Demurrage on All Time Saved Both Ends |
|
DHDWTSBE |
Despatch Half Demurrage on Working Time Saved Both Ends |
|
DHS |
Department of Human Services |
|
DIA |
Denver International Airport |
|
DID |
direct inward dial |
|
DIP |
Drop and Insert Point |
|
DIR |
Directory |
|
DIR/INTC |
Direct Intercept |
|
DIRF |
Direction Finding |
|
DIS |
Distance |
|
DISCH |
Discharge |
|
DISCR |
Discrepancy |
|
DIST |
Distance |
|
DISU |
Drug Investigation Support Unit |
|
DITCO |
Defense Information Technology Contracting Office (formerly DECCO) |
|
DITS |
Digital Information Transfer System |
|
DK |
Deck |
|
Dl |
Delta |
|
DL |
Downlink Message |
|
DLAP |
Data Link Applications Processor |
|
DLAP |
Down Linked Aircraft Parameters |
|
DLASD |
Data Link Application and System Document |
|
DLH |
Deutsche Lufthansa |
|
DLOSP |
Dropping Last Outwards Sea Pilot |
|
DLP |
Data Link Processor |
|
DLR |
German Aerospace Research Establishment |
|
DLRS |
Digital Legal Recording System |
|
DLSG |
Data Link Sub Group |
|
DMA |
direct memory access (computer term) |
|
DMA |
Divergence Monitoring and Alert |
|
DMAN |
Departure Manager |
|
DMAS |
Director Maastricht Control Centre |
|
DMC |
Detachment of Military Coordinators |
|
DME |
Distance Measuring Equipment |
|
DME/P |
Precise DME |
|
DME/P |
Precision Distance Measuring Equipment |
|
DML |
Data Manipulation Language |
|
DMN |
Data Multiplexing Network |
|
DMR |
Data Modification Request |
|
DMRS |
Database Management Reporting System |
|
DMS |
Database Management System |
|
DMSH |
Diminish |
|
DMSTN |
Demonstration |
|
DMU |
Data Management Unit |
|
DNAs |
ECAC Directors of Air Navigation |
|
DNG |
Danger |
|
DNIC |
Data Network Identification Code |
|
DNL |
Day-Night Equivalent Sound Level |
|
DNRCAOSLONL |
Discountless and Non-Returnable Cargo and/or Ship Lost or Not Lost |
|
DNS |
Digital Network Signalling |
|
DNSLP |
Downslope |
|
DNSTRM |
Downstream |
|
DNTKFX |
DownTrack Fix |
|
DO |
Diesel Oil |
|
DOC |
Document |
|
DOD |
United States Department of Defense |
|
dod |
Department of Defence |
|
DoD MIL |
Department of Defence - military |
|
DODAR |
Diagnosis, Options, Decision, Assessment and Revision |
|
DOF |
Date of Flight |
|
dof |
Digital Obstacle File |
|
DOI |
Department Of Industry |
|
DOI |
United States Department of Interior |
|
DOLSP |
Dropping Off Last Sea Pilot |
|
Dom |
Domestic |
|
DOP |
Dropping Outward Pilot |
|
DOP |
Daily Operations Plan |
|
DORA |
Directorate Operational Research and Analysis |
|
DOS |
Disk Operating System |
|
DOS |
United States Department of State |
|
DOT |
Department of Transport |
|
DOTCC |
Department of Transportation Computer Center |
|
DOVE |
DSR Oceanic VSCS En Route Implementation Working Group |
|
DP |
Dewpoint Temperatue |
|
DP |
Departure procedures |
|
DP&P |
Data Processing And Peripherals |
|
DPA |
Distinguishing Path Attribute |
|
DPC |
Defence Planning Committee |
|
DPDG |
Diplomatic and Protocol Drafting Group |
|
DPE |
Designated Pilot Examiner |
|
DPE |
Digital Plot Extractor |
|
DPI |
Dots per inch. |
|
DPL |
Displayed Flight Plan |
|
DPNG |
Deepening |
|
DPSK |
Differential Phase Shift Keying |
|
DPTH |
Depth |
|
DR |
Dead Reckoning Navigation |
|
DR |
Drifting (METAR descriptor) |
|
DR |
Disaster Recovery |
|
DR |
Dead Reckoning |
|
DRA |
Defense Research Agency(UK) |
|
DRAM |
Dynamic Random Access Memory (dee-ram) (computing) |
|
DRAUGHT |
Depth to which a ship is immersed in water |
|
DRC |
Dynamic Route Change |
|
DRCP |
Data Reduction Computer Program |
|
DRDF |
Digital Readout Direction Finder |
|
DRF |
Departure Flow Regulation |
|
DRFT |
Drift |
|
DRK |
Derrick |
|
DRP |
Disaster Recovery Plan |
|
DRU |
Data Retrival Unit |
|
DSB |
Double Side Band |
|
DSCN |
Direct Speech Circuit Networks |
|
DSCS |
Digital Satellite Compression Service |
|
DSG |
Data Services Group |
|
DSP |
Departure Sequencing Program |
|
DSPY |
Display |
|
DSR |
Display System Replacement |
|
DSS |
Decision Support System |
|
DSUA |
Dynamic Special - Use Airspace |
|
DTED |
Digital Terrain Elevation Data (dee-ted) |
|
DTG |
Distance-to-go |
|
DTM |
Digital Terrain Model |
|
DTS |
Dedicated Transmission Service |
|
DTU |
Data Terminating Unit |
|
DTW |
Dual Tandem Wheels |
|
DUAT |
Direct User Access Terminal |
|
DUATS |
Direct User Access Terminal System |
|
DVD |
Dual View Display |
|
DVOF |
Digital Vertical Obstruction File |
|
DVOR |
Doppler Very High Frequency Omni Directional Range |
|
DVRS |
Digital Voice Recorder System |
|
DW |
Dual wheels |
|
DWAT |
Deadweight |
|
DYSIM |
Dynamic Simulator |
|
DZ |
Algeria |
|
DZ |
Drizzle |
|
E |
East |
|
E M |
signalling |
|
E-MSAW |
En Route Automated Minimum Safe Altitude Warning |
|
E/D |
End-Of-Descent |
|
E/O |
Engine-Out |
|
ea |
Europe Airsports |
|
EAA |
European Aviation Agency |
|
EAC |
East Assistant Controller |
|
EACAC |
Evolutionary AIR Ground Cooperative ATM Concept |
|
EACG |
European ATFM Consultation Group |
|
EAD |
Earliest Arrival Date |
|
EAD |
Emergency Airworthiness Directive |
|
EAD SGR |
EAD Sub-Group |
|
EADCOS |
EAD Co-ordination Group |
|
EADI |
Electronic Attitude Director Indicator |
|
EADTF |
European AIS Database Task Force |
|
EAM |
Eurocontrol Airspace Model |
|
EAMG |
European ATFM Management Group |
|
EAMG SSG |
EAMG Systems Sub-Group |
|
EAN |
European ATSO Network |
|
EANPG |
Regional European Air Navigation Planning Group |
|
EAP |
EATCHIP Alignment Process |
|
EAPTU |
Air Line Pilots Trade Union |
|
EARC |
Elimination of Ambiguity in Radiotelephony Call Signs |
|
EARS |
En Route Analysis and Reporting System |
|
EARTS |
Enroute Automated Radar Tracking System |
|
EARTS |
En Route Automated Radar Tracking System |
|
EAS |
Equivalent Airspeed |
|
EASA |
European Aviation Safety Agency |
|
EAsA |
European Aviation Safety Authority |
|
EASG |
EASIE ATM Support Group |
|
EASS |
European Aviation Safety Seminar |
|
EAT |
Expected Approach Time |
|
EATCHIP |
European Air Traffic Control Harmonisation and Integration Programme |
|
EATCHIP LO |
EATCHIP Liaison Officer |
|
EATCHIP OCD |
Operational Concept Document |
|
EATF |
EATMS Architecture Task Force |
|
EATM |
European Air Traffic Management Programme |
|
EATMP |
The European Air Traffic Management Programme |
|
EATMS |
European Air Traffic Management System |
|
EATN |
Experimental Aeronautical Telecommunication Network |
|
EAWDG |
Architecture Workshop Drafting Group |
|
EB |
Eastbound |
|
EBAA |
European Business Aviation Association |
|
EBC |
Event Based Currency |
|
EBCDIC |
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (pronounced Eb-see-dik) (cf. BCD) |
|
EBP |
Emergency Bypass Processor |
|
EBU |
Engine Build Unit |
|
EBUS |
Enhanced Backup Surveillance |
|
ec |
Executive Controller |
|
EC |
Engineering Center |
|
EC |
East Coast |
|
ECA |
Executive Controller Assistant |
|
ECA |
European Cockpit Association |
|
ECAC |
European Civil Aviation Conference |
|
ECAC area |
European Civil Aviation Conference Area |
|
ECAM |
Electronic Centralised Aircraft Monitoring |
|
ECAM |
Electronic Centralized Aircraft Monitor |
|
ECAR |
European Civil Aviation Requirement |
|
ECASS |
European Committee on Aircrew Scheduling and Safety |
|
ECG |
En Route Communications Gateway |
|
ECMT |
European Conference of Ministers of Transport |
|
ECOM |
En Route Communications |
|
ECON |
Economy |
|
eCPIC |
Electronic Capital Planning Investment Control |
|
ECS |
Environmental Control System (Subsystem) |
|
ECVFP |
Expanded Charted Visual Flight Procedures |
|
EDD |
Electronic Data Display |
|
EDDA |
Environmental Due Diligence Audit |
|
EdF |
Electricité de France |
|
EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange |
|
EDS |
Enterprise Database System |
|
EEC |
Electronic Engine Control |
|
EEC |
Eurocontrol Experimental Centre |
|
EEE |
Etudes, Essais and Experimentation |
|
EEG |
Electro-EncephaloGram |
|
EEI |
Essential Elements of Information |
|
EEO |
Equal Employment Opportunity |
|
EES |
European Eastern States |
|
EET |
Estimated Elapsed Time |
|
EFAS |
En Route Flight Advisory Service |
|
EFB |
Electronic Flight Bag |
|
EFC |
Expected Further Clearance |
|
EFC |
Expect Further Clearance |
|
EFDFMG |
EUROCONTROL Flow Data and Flow Management Group |
|
EFDP |
European flight data processing(Eurocontrol) |
|
Eff |
Effective from |
|
EFIS |
Electronic Flight Instrument System |
|
EFIS |
Electronic Flight Information System |
|
EFL |
Entry Flight Level |
|
EFL |
Estimated Flight Level |
|
EFMS |
Experimental Flight Management System |
|
EFP |
EspaÑa-France-Portugal Plan |
|
EFPD |
Extended Flight Plan Description |
|
efpm |
Extended Flight Plan Message |
|
EFPS |
External Front Processing System |
|
efqm |
European Foundation for Quality Management's |
|
EFR |
Extended Flight Rules |
|
EFS |
Extended Flight Store |
|
efs |
Electronic Flight Strip |
|
EFSTS |
Electronic Flight Strip Transfer System |
|
EFTA |
European Free Trade Association (Geneva) |
|
EG |
Egypt |
|
EGA |
Enhanced Graphics Adapter |
|
EGALPA |
Egyptian Air Line Pilots Association |
|
EGATCM |
Eurocontrol Guild of Air Traffic Controllers - Maastricht |
|
EGATS |
Eurocontrol Guild of Air Traffic Services |
|
EGERIA |
Engineering Group for European Integration ATC |
|
EGIP |
European Gateway for INO Provision |
|
EGNOS |
European Global Navigation Overlay Service |
|
EGNOS-EM |
European Global Navigation Overlay Service |
|
EGNOSS |
European Geostationary Navigation System Overlay |
|
EGPWS |
Enhanced Ground-Proximity Warning System |
|
EGT |
Exhaust Gas Temperature |
|
EGU |
European Gliding Union |
|
EHA |
European Helicopter Association |
|
EHD |
Danger Area |
|
EHEST |
European Helicopter Safety Team |
|
EHF |
Extremely High Frequency |
|
EHF |
Extremely High Frequencies |
|
EHQ |
Eurocontrol Headquarters |
|
EHR |
Restricted Area |
|
EHSAT |
European Helicopter Safety Analysis Team |
|
EHSI |
Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator |
|
EHT |
Extemely High Tension |
|
EI |
Air Lingus |
|
EIA |
Extended Interaction Amplifier |
|
EIAF |
Expanded Inward Access Features |
|
EIB |
European Investment Bank |
|
EICAS |
Engine Indicating Crew Alerting System |
|
EIF |
Extended Interface Function |
|
EIIC |
Electronics Installation and Implementation Centre |
|
EIM |
Enosis Iptamenon Michanikon |
|
EIPA |
European Institute of Public Administration |
|
EIRP |
EffectiveIsotropic Radiated Power |
|
EIS |
Environmental Information Sampling |
|
EIS |
Environmental Impact Statement (US) |
|
EIU |
Even If Used |
|
EIU |
Electronic Interface Unit |
|
EL |
Electro-Luminescent |
|
EL/KYB |
EL Keyboard |
|
elba |
Emergency Locator Beacon Aircraft |
|
ELBA |
Emergency Location Beacon-Aircraft |
|
ELD |
Electrical Load Database |
|
ELINT |
Electronic Intelligence Satellite |
|
ELM |
Extended Length Message |
|
ELMS |
Electronic Learning Management System |
|
ELNGT |
Elongate |
|
ELR |
Extra Long Range |
|
ELS |
Emergency Landing Strip |
|
ELT |
Emergency Locator Transmitter |
|
ELVENT |
Electric Ventilation |
|
ELWRT |
Electrowriter |
|
EMARSSH |
Europe, Middle East, Asia Route Structure of the Himalayas |
|
EMAS |
Engineered Materials Arresting System |
|
EMP |
Electromagnetic Pulse |
|
EMPS |
En Route Maintenance Processor System |
|
EMS |
Environmental Management Systems |
|
ENAV |
En Route Navigational Aids |
|
ENG |
Engine |
|
EOF |
Emergency Operating Facility |
|
EOPF |
Electronic Official Personnel File |
|
EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency (US) |
|
EPAC |
Eurocontrol Programme Appraisal Committee |
|
EPB |
EATCHIP Project Board |
|
EPC |
Enhanced Planning and Coordination function |
|
EPCM |
Enhanced Planning Control Message |
|
EPCU |
Electrical Power Control Unit |
|
EPD |
EATCHIP Planning Division |
|
EPG |
EASIE Policy Group |
|
EPHOS |
European Handbook for Open Systems |
|
EPI |
Element Performance Inspections |
|
EPIC |
Extended PCM Interface Controller |
|
EPMB |
EASIE Programme Management Board |
|
EPR |
Engine Pressure Ratio |
|
EPROM |
Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory |
|
EPROM |
Erasable-Programmable Read-Only-Memory |
|
EPRT |
External Processing Response Time |
|
EPS |
Engineered Performance Standards |
|
EPS |
Exercise Preparation Suite |
|
EPSS |
Enhanced Packet Switched Service |
|
EPSU |
European Public Service Union |
|
EQPT |
Equipment |
|
EQUATOR |
Environment for Qualitative Temporal Reasoning |
|
ER |
En-Route |
|
ER TC |
En-Route Tactical Controller |
|
ER-PC |
En-Route Planner Controller |
|
ERA |
European Regions Airlines Association |
|
ERA |
European Regional Airlines Organisation |
|
ERABIS |
Route Invoicing System |
|
ERAD |
En Route Broadband Radar |
|
ERAM |
En Route Automation Modernization |
|
ERATO |
En Route Air Traffic Organiser |
|
ERCG |
External Relations Coordination Group |
|
ERCS |
EXM Resistant Communications System |
|
ERD |
End Routing Domain |
|
ERDF |
European Regional Development Fund |
|
ERFA |
Conference on the Economics of Route Air |
|
ERIDS |
En Route Information Display System |
|
ERIP |
EAD Remote Interface Package |
|
ERIT |
Enhanced Radar Intelligent Tool |
|
ERM |
En Route Spacing Program |
|
ERMS |
Environmental Remote Monitoring System |
|
ERN |
Earth Referenced Navigation |
|
ERNP |
European Radio Navigation Plan |
|
EROC |
Study Group on En-Route Obstacle Clearance Criteria |
|
ERP |
Effective Radiated Power |
|
ERP |
Emergency Response Plan |
|
ERR |
Error message |
|
ERSS |
Eurocontrol Radar Surveillance Standard |
|
ERV |
ECM Resistant Voice |
|
ES&H |
Environmental Safety And Health |
|
ESA |
Eastern Service Area |
|
ESA |
European Space Agency |
|
ESARR |
Eurocontrol Safety Regulatory requirements |
|
ESCAPE |
Eurocontrol Simulation Capability and Platform for Experimentation |
|
ESCAT |
Emergency Security Control of Air Traffic |
|
ESCO |
Executive Support and Coordination Office |
|
ESDF |
Environmental Static Data Processing and Distribution Function |
|
ESDI |
Enhanced Small-Device Interface |
|
ESE |
East-South-East |
|
ESEC |
En Route Broadband Secondary Radar |
|
ESERN |
East-Southeastern |
|
ESEWD |
East-Southeastward |
|
ESF |
Essential Support Facilities |
|
ESRI |
Environmental Systems Research Institute (developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, Redlands, California) |
|
EST |
Estimated Starting Time |
|
est |
Estimated Ship Time |
|
ESYS |
En Route Equipment Systems |
|
ETA |
Estimated Time of Arrival |
|
eta |
EstimatedTime of Arrival |
|
ETC |
Estimated Time of Completion |
|
ETD |
Estimated Time of Departure |
|
ETE |
Estimated Time En Route |
|
ETFMS |
Enhanced Tactical Flow Management Systems |
|
ETG |
Enhanced Target Generator |
|
ETMS |
Enhanced Traffic management Systems |
|
ETn |
Electronic Telecommunications Network |
|
ETO |
Estimated Time Over |
|
ETO |
Engineering Technical Officer |
|
ETOPs |
Extended Range Twin-Engine Operations |
|
ETOT |
Estimated Take Off-Time |
|
ETS |
Estimated Time of Sailing |
|
ETVCT |
En Route Training Voice Communication Tool |
|
ETX |
End of Transmission |
|
EU |
European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC) |
|
EU-FCL |
EASA Flight Crew Licensing |
|
EU-OPS |
EASA Operations Regulations |
|
EUR |
Region European Region |
|
EUR-RAN |
European Regional Air Navigation |
|
EUR/TFG |
European Traffic Forecasting Group |
|
EURO RAN |
European Regional Air Navigation |
|
EUROCAE |
European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment |
|
EUROCONTROL |
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation |
|
EUROPILOTE |
European Organisation or Airline Pilots Association |
|
EV |
every |
|
EVAS |
EATMS Validation Strategy |
|
EVAS |
Enhanced Vortex Advisory System |
|
EVCS |
Emergency Voice Communications System |
|
EVFR |
Electronic Visual Flight Rules |
|
EVM |
Earned Value Management |
|
EVP |
EATM Validation Project |
|
EVS |
Enhanced Visual System |
|
EW |
Eurowings |
|
EWA |
Error Warning Area |
|
EWAN |
EGNOS Wide Area Network |
|
EWBS |
EATCHIP Work Breakdown Structure |
|
EWG |
Executive Working Group |
|
EWPA |
EATCHIP Work Programme Adaptation |
|
EWS |
Experimental Workstation Simulator |
|
EWT |
EATMS Working Team |
|
ex GDR |
ex German Democratic Republic |
|
EXEC |
Execute |
|
EXER |
Exercise |
|
exp |
Expect |
|
EXPLT |
Extrapolate |
|
EXSPEC |
Exercise Specification |
|
EXTD |
Extend |
|
EXTRAP |
Extrapolate |
|
EXTRM |
Extreme |
|
EXW |
Ex Works |
|
EXY |
Easyjet |
|
f |
Degrees Fahrenheit |
|
F&CM |
Flow And Capacity Management |
|
F&E |
Facilities and Equipment |
|
F/G |
Foreground |
|
F18 |
Field 18 of Flight Plan |
|
FA |
Final Approach |
|
FAA |
Federal Aviation Authority |
|
FAA |
Federal Aviation Administration |
|
FAAAC |
FAA Aeronautical Center |
|
FAACIS |
FAA Communications Information System |
|
FAASTeam |
FAA Safety Team |
|
FAATC |
FAA Test Centre |
|
FAC |
Facilities |
|
fac |
Fast as can |
|
FACC |
Feature and Attribute Coding Catalogue |
|
FACF |
Final Approach Course Fix |
|
FACTOR |
Development of Functional Concepts from the EATMS Operational Requirements |
|
FACTS |
Future Area Control Tools Support |
|
FACUTL |
Facility Utilization System |
|
FADE |
FAA/Airline Data Exchange |
|
FADEC |
Full Authority Digital Engine Control |
|
FAF |
Final Approach Fixes |
|
FAIRS |
Federal Aircraft Management Information System |
|
FAL |
Facilitation of International Air Transport |
|
FAL |
Final Assembly Line |
|
FALPA |
Fiji Air Line Pilots Association |
|
FAMIS |
Federal Air Marshal Information System |
|
FAN |
False Alarm Normaliser |
|
FANOMOS |
Flight track and Aircraft NOise Monitoring System |
|
FANS |
Future Air Navigation System |
|
FAP |
Final Approach Point |
|
FAPM |
FTS2000 Associate Program Manager |
|
FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes Pronounced Fak) |
|
FAR |
Federal Aviation Regulation |
|
FAR |
Federal Acquisition Regulation |
|
FAR |
Federation Aviation Regulations |
|
FARAWAY |
Fusion of Radar and ADS data through two WAY data link |
|
FARM |
Fielded Automation Requirements Management |
|
FAS |
Free Alongside Ship |
|
FASC |
FAA Aviation Safety Center |
|
FAST |
Final Approach Spacing Tool |
|
FAX |
Facsimile Equipment |
|
FBO |
Fixed-Based Operator |
|
FBO |
fixed base operator |
|
FBS |
Fall Back Switch |
|
FC |
Course from a Fix to a Distance |
|
fca |
Free Carrier Alongside |
|
FCC |
Federal Communications Commission (US) |
|
FCC |
Flight Control Computer |
|
FCL |
Flight Crew Licensing |
|
FCL |
Full Container Load |
|
FCLT |
Freeze Calculated Landing Time |
|
FCM |
Flight Confirmation Message |
|
FCM |
Flight Schedule Monitor |
|
FCOM |
FSS Radio Voice Communications |
|
FCPU |
Facility Central Processing Unit |
|
FCT |
Federal Contract Tower |
|
FCT |
Friction Coefficient |
|
FCU |
Flight Control Unit |
|
FD |
Free Discharge |
|
FD |
Flight Director |
|
fda |
Flight Data Analysis |
|
FDAMS |
Flight Data Acquisition and Management System |
|
FDC |
Flight Data Company |
|
FDD |
Freight Demurrage Deadfreight |
|
FDDI |
Fiberoptical Digital Data Interchange |
|
FDE |
Flight Data Exchange |
|
FDE |
Flight Data Entry |
|
FDE-ICD |
Flight Data Entry - Interface Control Document |
|
FDEDANRSAOCLONL |
Freight Deemed Earned, Discountless And Non-Returnable Ship And Or Cargo Lost Or Not Lost |
|
FDEP |
Flight Data Entry and Printout |
|
FDESP |
Free Despatch |
|
FDFM |
Flight Data and Flow Management Group |
|
FDFM |
Flight Data and Flow Management |
|
FDFMG |
Flight Data and Flow Management Group |
|
FDG |
Flight plan Data Generator |
|
FDG |
Flight Data Group |
|
FDIO |
Flight Data Input/Output |
|
FDIOC |
Flight Data Input/Output Center |
|
FDIOR |
Flight Data Input/Output Remote |
|
FDM |
Flight Data Message |
|
FDMA |
Frequency Division Multiplex Access |
|
FDMAS |
Flight Data Management Automated System |
|
FDMD |
Flight Data Management and Distribution |
|
FDMSAW |
Fully Digital Minimum Safe Altitude Warning |
|
FDO |
Flight Data Operations Division |
|
FDOD |
CFMU – Flight Data Operations Division |
|
FDP |
Flight Data Processing |
|
FDP/RDP |
Flight Data Processing/Radar Data Processing |
|
FDPD |
Flight Data Processing and Distribution |
|
FDPS |
Flight Data Processing System |
|
FDR |
Federal Data Registry |
|
FDR |
Flight Data Recorder |
|
FDS |
Flight Data Section |
|
FDSU |
Flight Data Storage Unit |
|
FDT |
Flight Deck Training Program |
|
FE |
Flight Examiner |
|
FEAST |
First European ATCO Selection Test Package |
|
FEATS |
Future European Air System Concept Group |
|
FEATS |
Future European Air Traffic System |
|
FEB |
February |
|
FEC |
Forward Error Correction |
|
FED |
Fonds Europ?en de D?veloppement |
|
FEIS |
Final Environmental impact statement (US) |
|
FENA |
Flight Engineers and Navigators Association |
|
FEODP |
Flight Edit and On-Demand Printing |
|
FEP |
Front End Processor |
|
FERS |
Facility and Equipment Reporting System |
|
FES |
Fixed Earth Station |
|
FEU |
Forty-Foot Equivalent Unit |
|
FEW |
Few |
|
FF |
Fuel Flow |
|
FFA |
Functional Failure Analysis |
|
FFAC |
From Facility |
|
FFAS |
Free Flight Airspace |
|
FFI |
Final Factory Inspection |
|
FFLA |
Flexible Flight Level Assignment |
|
FFM |
Free Flight Mode |
|
FFRDC |
Federal Funded Research and Development Center |
|
FFTF |
Future Functions Task Force |
|
FFU |
Fire Fighting Unit |
|
FG |
Fog Gun |
|
FGS/C |
Flight Guidance System/Computer |
|
FHA |
Functional Hazard Analysis |
|
FHA |
Functional Hazard Assessment |
|
FHEX |
Fridays/Holidays Excluded |
|
FHINC |
Fridays/Holidays Included |
|
FI |
Flight Instructor |
|
FI |
Iceland Air |
|
FI/P |
Flight Inspection Permanent |
|
FI/T |
Flight Inspection Tempray |
|
FIA |
Icelandic Air Line Pilots Association |
|
FIAO |
Flight Inspection Area Office |
|
FIAT |
First Installed Article Test |
|
FIB |
Forward Information Base |
|
FIC |
Flight Information Centre |
|
FIC |
Finance Committee |
|
FICO |
Flight Inspection Central Office |
|
FIDS |
Flight Information Display System |
|
FIFO |
Flight Inspection Field Office(s) |
|
FIFO |
First In, First Out |
|
FIG |
Flight Inspection Group |
|
FILO |
Free In/Liner Out |
|
FILTIM |
Date and Time Stamp of original Message |
|
FIM |
Fault Isolation Manual |
|
FIN |
Finnair Oyj, Finland |
|
FINO |
Flight Inspection National Field Office |
|
FIO |
Flight Inspection Office |
|
FIO |
Free In/Out |
|
FIO |
Flight Information Office |
|
FIOS |
Free In/Out Stowed |
|
FIOST |
Free In/Out and Trimmed |
|
FIOT |
Free In/Out and Trimmed |
|
FIP |
Facility Improvement Program |
|
FIPS |
Federal Information Publication Standard |
|
FIR |
Flight Information Region |
|
FIRE |
Fire Station |
|
FIRMR |
Federal Information Resource Management Regulation |
|
FIRPS |
Flight Inspection Reports Processing System |
|
FIRST |
Flexible Independent Radar Skill Trainer |
|
FIS |
Flight Information Services |
|
FIS |
Flight Information Service |
|
FIS-B |
Flight Information Service - Broadcast |
|
FIS-B |
Flight Information Services - Broadcast |
|
FISA |
Automated flight Information Service |
|
FISC |
Flight Information Services Communications |
|
FISDL |
Flight Information Services Data Link |
|
FISMA |
Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 |
|
FISO |
Flight Information Service Officer |
|
FIT |
Flight Plan Input Terminal |
|
FIT |
Flight Integration Task |
|
FIT |
Free In Trimmed |
|
FITAMS |
Flight Trials of ATN and Mode S activity |
|
FITS |
FAA/Industry Training Standards |
|
FIW |
Flight Input Workstation |
|
fiw |
Free in wagon |
|
FIX |
position in space usually on aircraft’s flight plan |
|
FIXING |
Chartering a Vessel |
|
FIXM |
Flight Information Exchange Model |
|
FKFE |
Forum Komunikasi Flight Engineers |
|
FL |
Flight Level |
|
FLAS |
Flight Level Allocation System |
|
FLAS |
Flight Level Allocation Scheme |
|
FLCH |
Flight Level Change |
|
FLDS |
Flight Loads Data System |
|
FLIDRAS |
Flight Data Replay and Analysis System |
|
FLIREC |
Flight Recorders |
|
FLM |
Front Line Manager |
|
FLOE |
Informal Flow Control Europe East |
|
FLOW |
Informal Flow Control Europe West |
|
FLOWSIM |
Traffic Flow Planning Simulation |
|
FLSA |
Fair Labor Standards Act |
|
FLT |
Full Liner Terms |
|
FLT |
Flight |
|
FLTCK |
Flight Check |
|
FMA |
Flight Mode Annunciator |
|
FMA |
Final Monitor Aid |
|
FMC |
Federal Maritime Commission's |
|
FMC |
Flight Management Computer |
|
FMC |
Frontline Managers Courses |
|
FMDB |
Fault Message Database |
|
FME |
Force Majeure Excepted |
|
FMF |
Facility Master File |
|
FMG |
Frequency Management Group |
|
FMGC |
Flight Management Guidance Computer |
|
FMGS |
Flight Management Guidance System |
|
FMI |
Frequency Management Issues |
|
FMIS |
FTS2000 Management Information System |
|
FMO |
Facility Management Office |
|
FMP |
Field Maintenance Party |
|
FMPG |
Air Traffic Flow Management Planning Group |
|
FMS |
Flight management system |
|
FMS |
Fathoms |
|
FMU |
Flow Management Unit |
|
FNMS |
FTS2000 Network Management System |
|
FNPT |
Flight & Navigation Procedures Trainer |
|
FO |
For Orders |
|
FO |
Free Out |
|
FO |
First Officer |
|
FO |
Flight Object |
|
FO(IFO) |
Fuel Oil/Intermediate FO |
|
FOB |
Free On Board |
|
FOD |
Foreign Object Debris |
|
FOD |
Foreign Object Damage |
|
FOFFER |
Firm Offer |
|
FOG |
For Our Guidance |
|
FOIA |
Freedom of Information Act |
|
FOMS |
Flight Operations Management System |
|
FONSI |
Finding of no significant impact. See Environmental impact statement (US) |
|
FOQ |
Free On Quay |
|
FOQA |
Flight Operations Quality Assurance Programs |
|
FOR |
Free On Rail |
|
FOT |
Free On Truck |
|
FOTS |
Fiber Optics Transmission System |
|
FOUO |
For Official Use Only |
|
FOW |
free on wharf |
|
FOW |
First Open Water |
|
FP |
Free Pratique |
|
FP |
Flight Plan |
|
FPA |
Finnish Pilots Association |
|
FPA |
Focal Plane Array |
|
FPA |
Flight Path Angle |
|
FPAP |
Flight Path Alignment Point |
|
FPB |
Flight Progress Board |
|
FPCP |
Flight Path Control Point |
|
FPD |
Flight Plan Database |
|
FPDETF |
Flight Plan related Data Exchange Task Force |
|
FPF |
Flight Plan Fallback |
|
FPFS |
First Planned First Served |
|
FPI |
Fluorescent Penetrate Inspection |
|
FPL |
Full Performance Level |
|
FPL |
Filed Flight Plan |
|
FPLA |
Flight Plan Application Section |
|
FPLMTS |
Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunications System |
|
FPM |
Flight Path Monitor |
|
FPM |
Flight Progress Message |
|
FPM |
Feet Per Minute |
|
FPM |
Flight Position Monitor |
|
FPO |
Flight Procedures Office |
|
FPP |
Flight Plan Processing |
|
FPPS |
Federal Personnel Payroll System |
|
FPPS |
Flight Plan Processing System |
|
FPPU |
Flight Planning and Flight Progress Updating |
|
FPR |
Flight Plan Route |
|
FPS |
Flight Plan Server |
|
FPS |
Military Primary Radar |
|
FPS |
Flight Progress Strip |
|
FPT |
Flight Plan Terminal |
|
FPWO |
Flight Plan Work Station Operator |
|
FPZ |
Flight Path Zone |
|
FQIS |
Fuel Quantity Indicating System |
|
FQR |
Formal Qualification Review |
|
FR |
From |
|
FR |
First Refusal |
|
FRA |
Federal Railroad Administration |
|
FRA |
Flap Retraction Altitude |
|
FRB |
Failure Review Board |
|
FRC |
Request Full Route Clearance |
|
FRD |
Facility Reference Data |
|
FREE EXINS |
Free of any Extra Insurance |
|
FREE OUT |
Free of discharge costs to owners |
|
FREER |
Free-Route Experimental Encounter Resolution |
|
FREER |
Free Route Experimental Encounter Resolution |
|
FREQ |
Frequency |
|
Freq |
Next Sector frequency |
|
FRF |
Further Route of Flight |
|
frg |
Federal Republic of Germany's |
|
FRH |
Fly Runway Heading |
|
FRM |
Financial Resources Management Core Team |
|
FRMS |
Facility Roster Management System |
|
FRNG |
Firing |
|
Front |
Frontispiece |
|
FRP |
Fares and Rates Panel |
|
FRQ |
Frequent |
|
FRS |
Functional Requirements Specifications |
|
FRT |
Freight |
|
FRZN |
Frozen |
|
fs |
Flight Standards |
|
fs |
Foot Switch |
|
FSA |
First System Activation |
|
FSAS |
Flight Service Automation System |
|
FSCAP |
Flight Safety Critical Aircraft Parts |
|
FSD TF |
Functional Specification Development Task Force |
|
FSDO |
Flight Standards District Office |
|
FSDPS |
Flight Service Data Processing System |
|
FSEP |
Facility, Service, and Equipment Profile |
|
FSF |
Flight Safety Foundation |
|
FSF IAS |
Flight Safety Foundation International Aviation Safety |
|
FSFO |
Flight Standards Field Office |
|
FSG |
Flight Study Group |
|
FSIAG |
Flight Service Information Area Group |
|
FSK |
Frequency Shift Keying |
|
FSL |
Full Stop Landing |
|
FSM |
Flight Schedule Monitor |
|
FSP |
Flight Strip Printer |
|
FSPD |
Freeze Speed Parameter |
|
FSRM |
Facility Security Risk Management |
|
FSS |
Flight Service Station |
|
FSSA |
Flight Service Station Automated Service |
|
FST |
Fuel Storage Tanks |
|
FST |
First |
|
FSTS |
Federal Secure Telephone Service |
|
FSYS |
Flight Service Station Equipment Systems |
|
FT |
Feet |
|
FTC |
Fast-Time Constant |
|
FTE |
Full Time Equivalent |
|
FTE |
Flight Technical Error |
|
FTI |
FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure |
|
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
|
FTPC |
Flight Technical Professional Committee |
|
FTS |
Federal Telecommunications System |
|
FTS2000 |
Federal Telecommunications System 2000 |
|
FUA |
Flexible Use of Airspace |
|
FUS |
Functional Units or Systems |
|
FWAD |
Fresh Water Arrival Draft |
|
FWCS |
Flight Watch Control Station |
|
FWDD |
Fresh Water Departure Draft |
|
FWS |
FAA Weather Service |
|
FY |
Fiscal Year |
|
FYG |
For Your Guidance |
|
FYI |
For Your Information |
|
FZDZ |
Freezing Drizzle |
|
FZFG |
Freezing Fog |
|
FZL |
Freezing Level |
|
FZRA |
Freezing Rain (METAR Code) |
|
G/A |
ground to air |
|
G/S |
glideslope |
|
GA |
General Average |
|
GA |
go-around |
|
GA |
General Aviation |
|
GAA |
General Aviation Activity |
|
GAAA |
General Aviation Activity and Avionics |
|
GADO |
General Aviation District Office |
|
GALPA |
Ghanaian Air Line Pilots Association |
|
GANP |
Global Air Navigation Plan |
|
GAPAN |
Guild of Air Pilots & Navigators |
|
GAR |
Go-Around |
|
GASAG |
Global Aviation Security Action Group |
|
GAT |
General Air Traffic |
|
GBAS |
Ground Based Augmentation System |
|
GCA |
Ground-controlled approach |
|
GCU |
Generator Control Unit |
|
GDCA |
General Directorate for Civil Aviation |
|
GDCE |
Ground Data Circuit Terminating Equipment |
|
GDE |
Ground Delay Enhancements |
|
GDLP |
Ground Data Link Processor |
|
GDM |
Graphical Information Category Dynamic Maps |
|
GDOP |
Geometric Dilution Of Precision |
|
GDP |
Ground Delay Program |
|
GE |
Georgia |
|
GEADGE |
German Air Defense Ground Environment |
|
GEMS |
Generic Error-Modelling System |
|
Gen |
General Motors |
|
GENOFIC |
General North Sea Flight Information Centre |
|
GENOT |
General Notice |
|
GEO |
Geographic |
|
GEOREF |
Geographical reference |
|
Georgian ALPA |
Georgian Air Line Pilots Association |
|
GERT |
German NEAN Project Team |
|
GES |
Ground Earth Station |
|
GF |
Gulf Air Company - Bahrain |
|
GFDI |
GNSS Fault Detection and Isolation |
|
GFE |
Government-Furnished Equipment |
|
GFM |
Government Furnished Materials |
|
GFM |
Graphical Information Category Fixec Maps |
|
GFP |
Government Furnished Property |
|
GGCS |
Ground/Ground Communication System |
|
GHMI |
Ground Human-Machine Interface |
|
GHz |
Gigahertz |
|
GIB |
Global Navigation Satellite System Integrity Broadcast |
|
GIC |
Geostationary Integrity Channel |
|
GICB |
Ground Initiated Comm B Protocol |
|
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
|
GIVD |
Gravity Induced Vestibular Dysfunction |
|
GLD |
Glider |
|
GLOC |
Gravity-Induced Loss of Consciousness |
|
GLONASS |
Global Orbiting Navigational Satellite System |
|
GLONASS |
Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System, Russia |
|
GLOSS |
Global Sea Level Observing System (of IOC) |
|
GLS |
Global Landing System |
|
GLS |
Gearless |
|
GLSU |
GPS Landing System Unit |
|
GM |
guidance material |
|
GMC |
Ground Movement Control |
|
GMCC |
General National Airspace System Maintenance Control Center |
|
GMD |
General Meeting of Directors |
|
GML |
Geography Markup Language |
|
GMS |
Grants Management System |
|
gmt |
Greenwich Meantime |
|
GMT |
Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu) |
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GMU |
GPS (Height) Monitoring Unit |
|
GN |
Grain |
|
GNAS |
General National Airspace System |
|
GNC |
Global NAVCOM |
|
GNCN |
GENERAL CONDITIONS |
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GNDCK |
Ground Check |
|
GNE |
Gross Navigational Error |
|
GNLS |
GNSS Navigation and Landing System |
|
GNLU |
GNSS Navigation and Landing Unit |
|
GNP |
gross national product (economics) |
|
GNSS |
Global Navigation Satellite System |
|
GNSSP |
Global Navigation Satellite System Panel |
|
GO |
Gas Oil |
|
GOES |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
|
GOESF |
GOES Feed Point |
|
GOEST |
GOES Terminal Equipment |
|
GOMP |
Gulf of Mexico Program |
|
GOMS |
Goals, Operators, Methods, Selection model |
|
GOTV |
GNSS Operational Test and Validaton |
|
GP |
Glidepath |
|
GP |
Grain Capacity |
|
GPO |
Government Printing Office |
|
GPRA |
Government Performance and Results Act |
|
GPS |
Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR) |
|
GPWS |
Ground Proximity Warning System |
|
GR |
Geographical Rotation |
|
GRACYAS |
Caribbean/ South American African Regional Planning Group |
|
GRADE |
Graphical Airspace Design Environment |
|
GRAF |
Ground Replay and Analysis Facility |
|
GRD |
Geared |
|
GRI |
General Rate Increase |
|
grp |
Geographical Reference Points |
|
GRT |
Gross Registered Tonnage/Tons |
|
GS |
Ground Speed |
|
GS |
Glide Slope |
|
GSA |
U.S. General Services Administration |
|
GSB |
Good Safe Berth |
|
GSE |
Ground Support Equipment |
|
GSFC |
Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD) |
|
GSIF |
Ground Station Identification Frames |
|
GSP |
Good Safe Port |
|
GTEE |
Guarantee |
|
GTM |
General Terrain Model |
|
GTPAPC |
Grupo Tecnico de Pilotos Aviadores Profesionales de Cuba |
|
GUI |
Graphical User Interface (goo-ey) |
|
GUI |
Graphic-User Interface |
|
GW |
Gross Weight |
|
GWDS |
Graphic Weather Display System |
|
HA |
Hatch |
|
HAA |
Height Above Airport |
|
HAC |
Hughes Aircraft Company |
|
HAD |
Human Aspects Development |
|
HADAMARD |
Multi-radar processing written in ADA |
|
HAI |
Helicopter Association International |
|
HALO |
High Altitude, Low Opening (skydiving term) |
|
HALPA |
Hellenic Air Line Pilots Association |
|
HALS / DTOP |
High Approach Landing System / Displaced Threshold Operations |
|
HAPI |
Helicopter Approach Path Indicator |
|
HARA |
Helicopter Airborne Radar Approaches Study Group |
|
HARS |
High Altitude Route System |
|
HASA |
Helicopter Association of Southern Africa |
|
HAT |
Height Above Touchdown |
|
HATR |
Hazardous Air Traffic Report |
|
HAW |
Horizontal Aid Window |
|
HAWOP |
Helicopter All-Weather Operations Study Group |
|
HAZMAT |
Hazardous Material |
|
HBARO |
Barometric Altitude |
|
HbF |
Harmless Bulk Fertilizer |
|
HBN |
Hazard Beacon |
|
HBS |
Hotline Back-up System |
|
HBT |
Human Behavioural Technology |
|
HCA |
Human-Centred Automation |
|
HCAA |
Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority |
|
HCAP |
High Capacity Carriers |
|
HCD |
Hard Copy Device |
|
HCI |
Human Computer Interface |
|
HCP |
Hard Copy Printer |
|
HCS |
Host Computer System |
|
HD |
Air Holland |
|
HDB |
Historical Data Base |
|
HDBK |
Handbook |
|
HDD |
Head Down Display |
|
HDF |
High frequency direction-finding station |
|
HDG |
Heading |
|
HDG SEL |
Heading Select |
|
HDLC |
High-Level Data Link Control |
|
HDLC |
High Level Data Link Communication |
|
HDLTSBENDS |
Half Despatch Lay Time Saved Both Ends |
|
HDME |
NDB with Distance Measuring Equipment |
|
HDOP |
Horizontal Dilution of Precision |
|
HDOT |
Inertial Vertical Speed |
|
HDQ |
FAA Headquarters |
|
HDR |
Hardware Discrepancy Report |
|
HDWTS |
Half Despatch Working Time Saved |
|
HE |
Altitude Error |
|
HED |
Heading |
|
HEL |
IFALPA Helicopter Committee |
|
HEL |
Helicopter |
|
HELI |
Heliport |
|
HELIOPS |
Helicopter Operations Panel |
|
HELLANET |
Hellenic aeronautical Network |
|
HEMS |
Helicopter Emergency Medical Services |
|
HEO |
Highly-inclined Elliptical Orbit |
|
HERA |
Human Error in ATM |
|
HERAS |
Hellenic Radar System |
|
HERMES |
Harmonised En-Route Metering and Spacing |
|
HEX |
Hexadecimal (base 16) |
|
HF |
High Frequency |
|
HF |
Human Factors |
|
HFDL |
High Frequency Data Link |
|
HFIAI |
Human Factors in Incident and Accident Investigation |
|
HFS |
Human Factors Studies |
|
HFSG |
Human Factors Study Group |
|
HFTE |
Human Factors Testing and Evaluating |
|
HFX |
Holding Fix |
|
HG |
Mercury (Latin Hydrargyrum) |
|
HGT |
Height |
|
HHDW |
Handy Heavy d.w. |
|
HHmm |
Hours and minutes |
|
HHMMSS |
hour-hour / minute-minute / second-second |
|
HI FI SIM |
High-Fidelity Simulator |
|
HI-EFAS |
High Altitude EFAS |
|
HID |
Host Interface Display |
|
HID/NAS/LAN |
Host Interface Device/National Airspace System/Local Area Network |
|
HIDE |
Harmonised, Integrated Development Environment |
|
HIFA |
Human Integration in Future ATM Systems |
|
HIPERLAN |
High Performance Local Area Network |
|
HIPS |
Highly Interactive Problem Solver |
|
HIRE |
T/C Remuneration |
|
HIRL |
High Intensity Runway Lights |
|
HIRO |
High Intensity Runway Operation |
|
HIRS |
High-resolution Infrared Sounder |
|
HIRTA |
High Intensity Radio Transmission Area |
|
HIS |
Horizontal Situation Indicator |
|
HIWAS |
Hazardous Inflight Weather Advisory Service |
|
HKALPA |
Hong Kong Air Line Pilots Association |
|
HKAOA |
Hong Kong Aircrew Officers Association |
|
HLDC |
High Level Data Link Control |
|
HMI |
Hazardously Misleading Information |
|
HMI |
Human Machine Interface |
|
HMS |
Hydraulic Module Speed |
|
ho |
Hold Over |
|
HOV |
High Occupancy Vehicle |
|
HP |
Holding Pattern |
|
HPRES |
Pressure Altitude |
|
HQ |
Headquarters (HDQ Preferred) |
|
HS-DTS |
High Speed Data Transmission System |
|
HSI |
Horizontal Situation Indicator |
|
HSI |
Horizontal Situation Indicators |
|
HSM |
High Speed Modem |
|
HSPD |
Homeland Security Presidential Directive |
|
HST |
Hypersonic Transport |
|
HTA |
Hermes Training Aircraft |
|
HTD |
History Trial Dots |
|
HTI |
Human Technology Integration |
|
HTZ |
Helicopter Traffic Zone |
|
HU |
Hungary |
|
HUD |
Head-Up Display |
|
HUGs |
Head-Up Guidance Systems |
|
HUM RES |
Human Resources |
|
HUMR |
Human Resources |
|
HUMS |
Health and usage monitoring systems |
|
HUNALPA |
Hungarian Air Line Pilots Association |
|
HUPER |
IFALPA Human Performance Committee |
|
HURCN |
Hurricane |
|
HV |
Transavia Airlines CV |
|
HVAC |
Heating, Ventilating, And Air Conditioning |
|
HVY |
Heavylift Cargo Airlines |
|
HW |
High Water |
|
HWAS |
Hazardous In-Flight Weather Advisory |
|
HWCI |
Hardware Configuration Item |
|
HWG |
Harmonisation Working Group |
|
HWP |
Holding Waypoint |
|
HX |
No Specific working hours |
|
Hz |
cycles per second (hertz) |
|
HZ |
Haze (METAR Code) |
|
I |
Italy |
|
I and Q Channels |
In-phase and Quadrature channels |
|
I&I |
Impact & Implementation |
|
I(Fd) |
MTI Improvement Factor |
|
I/A |
Incident Analysis |
|
I/AFSS |
International AFSS |
|
I/O |
Input/Output |
|
I/R |
Interrogator/Responsor |
|
IA |
International Alphabet |
|
IA |
Inspection Authorization |
|
IA-5 |
International Alphabet Number 5 |
|
IA/CC |
Indirect Access/Common Control |
|
IAAC |
International Agricultural Aviation Centre |
|
IAAE |
International Association of Airport Executives |
|
IAARC |
International Administrative Aeronautical Radio Conference |
|
IAASM |
International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine |
|
IABA |
International Association of Aircraft Brokers and Agents |
|
IAC |
Integrated Avionics Computer |
|
IAC |
International Advisory Committee |
|
IACA |
International Air Carrier Association |
|
IACH |
Individual ATC Flight Plan Changes |
|
IACS |
INTERGRAPH Aeronautical Charting System |
|
IACSC |
Improved Airworthiness Communications Steering Committee |
|
IACSP |
International Aeronautical Communications Service Providers |
|
IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
|
IAF |
Initial Approach Fixes |
|
IAFP |
Individual ATC Flight Plan Proposal |
|
IAG |
International Association of Geodesy (IUGG) |
|
IAIP |
Integrated Aeronautical Information Package |
|
IAL |
Instrument Approach and Landing |
|
IALPA |
Irish Air Line Pilots Association |
|
IAM |
Institute of Aviation Medicine |
|
IAM |
Informal Application Manual |
|
IAMP |
Initial Approach Waypoint |
|
IANC |
International Airline Navigators Council |
|
IANS |
Institute of Air Navigation Services |
|
IANSSC |
IANS Steering Committee |
|
IAO |
In And Out |
|
IAOA |
Indicated Angle-of-Attack |
|
IAOPA |
International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations |
|
IAOPA |
International Aircraft Owners and Pilots Associations |
|
IAP |
Instrument Approach Procedures |
|
IAP |
Instrument Approach Plate |
|
IAPA |
International Airline Passengers Association |
|
IAPA |
Instrument Approach Procedures Automation |
|
IAPL |
IFPS APL Message |
|
IAR |
Intersection of Air Routes |
|
IAR |
Investment Analysis Report |
|
IARR |
IFPS ARR Message – Individual Arrival Message |
|
IAS |
Indicated AirSpeed |
|
IAS |
Investment Analysis Staff |
|
IAS |
Indicated Air Speed |
|
IASA |
International Air Safety Association |
|
IASS |
International Air Safety Seminar |
|
IAT |
Investment Analysis Team |
|
IATA |
International Air Transport Association |
|
IBM |
International Business Machines Corporation |
|
IBP |
International Boundary Point |
|
IBR |
Intermediate Bit Rate |
|
IC |
Implementation Center |
|
ICAAS |
Integrated Control in Avionics for Air Superiority |
|
ICAO |
International Civil Aviation Organization |
|
ICAO |
International Civil Aviation Organisation |
|
ICASM |
International Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine |
|
ICD |
Interface Control Document |
|
ICET |
IATA Capacity Enhancement Team |
|
ICIP |
Inital CIP |
|
ICMM |
Integrated Capability Maturity Model |
|
ICMS |
Integrated Control and Monitor System |
|
ICW |
Intercoastal Waterway |
|
Id |
IDentifier |
|
IDAT |
Interfacility Data |
|
IDENT |
Identification |
|
IDP |
Individual Development Plan |
|
IDS |
Intrusion Detection System |
|
IEPR |
Integrated Engine Pressure Ratio |
|
IF |
Intermediate Frequency |
|
IF |
Intermediate Fix |
|
IFA |
International Federation of Airworthiness |
|
IFALPA |
International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations |
|
IFATCA |
International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations |
|
IFATSEA |
International Federation of Air Traffic Safety Electronic Associations |
|
IFB |
Invitation For Bid |
|
IFCP |
Interfacility Communications Processor |
|
IFD |
Initial Functional Description |
|
IFDS |
Interactive Flight Data System |
|
IFDS |
Interfacility Data System |
|
IFE |
In-Flight Emergency |
|
IFE |
In-Flight Entertainment |
|
IFEA |
In-Flight Emergency Assistance |
|
IFEA |
Indian Flight Engineers Association |
|
IFEO |
International Flight Engineers Organisation |
|
IFF |
Identification Friend or Foe (radar) |
|
IFFAS |
International Fund for Aviation Safety |
|
IFFITAF |
IFPS-DBE Functional Interface System Task-Force |
|
IFFN |
Identification Friend, Foe or Neutral |
|
IFG-NME WG |
Implementation Facilitation Group of the National Management Experts Working Group |
|
IFHO |
International Federation of Helicopter Operators |
|
IFIM |
International Flight Information Manual |
|
IFL |
Intermediate Flight Level |
|
Iflips |
Integrated Flight Prediction System |
|
IFO |
International Field Office |
|
IFOG |
Interferometric Fiber Optic Gyroscope |
|
IFOR |
Implementation Force |
|
IFP |
Integrated Flight Plan System |
|
IFP |
Instrument Flight Procedures |
|
IFPA |
Instrument Flight Procedures Automation Program |
|
IFPD |
Individual Flight Plan Data |
|
IFPL |
Individual Flight Plan Message |
|
IFPO |
IFPS Workstation Operaror |
|
IFPP |
Instrument Flight Procedures Panel |
|
IFPPS |
Integrated Flight Plan Processing System |
|
IFPRU |
IFPS Responsible Unit |
|
IFPS |
Integrated Initial Flight Plan Processing System |
|
IFPU |
IFPS Unit |
|
IFPZ |
Integrated Initial Flight Plan Processing System Zone |
|
IFPZ |
IFPS Zone |
|
IFR |
Instrument Flight Rules |
|
IFRB |
International Frequency Registration Board of the International Telecommunication Union |
|
IFSS |
International Flight Service Station |
|
IFTO |
International Federation of Tour Operators |
|
IG |
Meridiana |
|
IG |
Inspector General (HHS) |
|
IgA |
International General Aviation |
|
IGCN |
Independent Ground Communications Network |
|
IGFET |
Insulated Gate Field Effect Transistor |
|
Igia |
Interagency Group on International Aviation |
|
IGP |
Ionospheric Grid Points |
|
IGS |
International GPS Reference Network |
|
IHST |
International Helicopter Safety Team |
|
II |
Interrogator Identity |
|
IIE |
Integrated Information Environment |
|
IIS |
Internal Information System |
|
IISLS |
Improved Interrogation Side Lobe Suppression |
|
IKBS |
Intelligent Knowledge Based System |
|
IL |
Israлl |
|
ILM |
Inventory Logistics and Maintenance Suite |
|
ILO |
International Labour Organisation |
|
ILS |
Instituteument Landing System |
|
ILSP |
Integrated Logistic Support Program |
|
ILSP |
Integrated Logistics Support Plan/Program |
|
IM |
Information Management |
|
IM |
Inner Marker |
|
IMA |
Integrated Modular Avionics |
|
IMAL |
Integrity Monitoring Alarm Limit |
|
IMAWP |
Initial Missed Approach Waypoint |
|
IMC |
Instrument Meteorological Conditions |
|
IMDG |
International Maritime Dangerous Goods |
|
IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
|
IMG |
Immigration |
|
IMO |
International Maritime Organisation (UN) |
|
IMP |
Implementation Services |
|
IMPACT |
Information Market Policy Actions |
|
IMPL |
Implementation Language |
|
Impr |
Improve |
|
in.hg. |
inches of mercury |
|
INBD |
Inbound |
|
IND |
Indication |
|
IND |
IFALPA Industrial Committee |
|
INFO |
Information |
|
INIT |
Initial |
|
INM |
Integrated Noise Model |
|
INR |
Image Navigation and Registration |
|
INS |
Inertial Navigation System |
|
INSTRAT |
Institutional Strategy for Air Traffic Management |
|
INTC |
Intercept |
|
INTERPOL |
International Criminal Police Organisation |
|
IOCS |
Interim Oceanic Control System |
|
IOSA |
Iata Operational Safety Audit |
|
IOT&E |
Independent Operational Test and Evaluation |
|
IP |
Internet Protocol |
|
IPACG |
Informal Pacific Air Traffic Services Co-ordinating Group |
|
IPDS |
Instrument Procedure Development System |
|
IPG |
Integration Project Group |
|
IPG |
Indian Pilots Guild |
|
IPL |
Intermediate Flight Plan |
|
IPMS |
IT Program Management System |
|
IPPC |
Internet Pilot Planning Centre |
|
IPRT |
Internal Processing Response Time |
|
IPS's |
Intellectual Proprietary Rights |
|
IPSE |
Integrated Programming Support Environment |
|
IPSky |
Internet Technology in the Sky |
|
IPT |
Integrated Product Team |
|
IPV |
Instrument Approach with Vertical guidance |
|
IPV6 |
Internet Protocol Version 6 |
|
IQ |
Intelligence Quotient |
|
IR |
Islamic Republic of Iran |
|
IR |
Ice on Runway |
|
IR |
Iran Air |
|
IRAS |
Interactive Radar Analysis System |
|
iRCAS |
Intranet Radio Coverage Analysis System |
|
IRD |
Initial Requirements Document |
|
IREN |
Incident Reporting European Network |
|
IRL |
Republic Of Ireland |
|
IRM |
information resource management |
|
IRMA |
Intermediate Redesigned MCC Architecture |
|
IRMC |
Integrated Risk Management Checklist |
|
IRMP |
Information Resources Management Plan |
|
IROI |
Instantaneous Return on Investment |
|
IRPL |
Internal Repetitive Flight Plan |
|
IRR |
Internal Rate of Return |
|
IRS |
Inertial Reference System |
|
IRT |
Interrogation Repetition Time |
|
IRU |
Inertial Reference Unit |
|
IRVR |
Instrument Runway Visual Range |
|
IS |
Iceland |
|
IS-ES |
Intermediate System - End System |
|
ISA |
International Standard Atmosphere |
|
ISAD |
ICAO's Incorporating Security into Aircraft Design Working Group |
|
ISASI |
International Society of Air Safety Investigators |
|
ISB |
Independent Sideband |
|
ISBP |
Information Security Business Portal |
|
ISC |
Initial System Capability |
|
ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network |
|
ISDU |
Inertial System Display Unit |
|
ISL |
Intermediate Supplementary Flight Level |
|
ISLS |
Interrogation Side Lobe Suppression |
|
ISMLS |
Interim Standard Microwave Landing System |
|
ISO |
Information System Owner |
|
ISO |
International Standards Organisation |
|
ISPACG |
Informal South Pacific Air Traffic Services Co-ordinating Group |
|
ISPS |
International Ships and Port Security system |
|
ISR-ALPA |
Israel Air Line Pilots Association |
|
Israel FE |
Israel Flight Engineers |
|
ISS |
Information Systems Security |
|
ISSCA |
Information Systems Security Certification Agent |
|
ISSM |
Information Systems Security Manager |
|
IST |
InterService Team |
|
IT |
Information Technology |
|
ITA |
Institute of Air Transport |
|
ITC |
in-trail climb |
|
ITD |
In-Trail Descent |
|
ITEB |
Information Technology Executive Board |
|
ITF |
International Transport Workers' Federation |
|
ITI |
Interactive Terminal Interface |
|
ITI |
Italian Interface |
|
ITID |
Individual Training- Instructor-dependent |
|
ITIL |
Information Technology Infrastructure Library |
|
ITIRS |
International Terrestrial Reference System |
|
ITM |
Intermediate Approach controller |
|
ITMD |
Individual Training - Material-dependent |
|
ITMRA |
Information Technology Management Reform Act (Part of the Clinger-Cohen Act) |
|
ITP |
in trail procedure |
|
ITR |
International Transit Route |
|
ITSM |
Information Technology Service Management |
|
ITSTC |
Information Technologie Steering Committee |
|
ITT |
Invitation Property Rights |
|
ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
|
ITU WARC-95 |
International Telecommunication Union World Radio Conference |
|
ITU-T |
International Telecommunications Union |
|
ITWS |
Integrated Terminal Weather System |
|
IU |
If Used |
|
IUAI |
International Union of Aviation Insurers |
|
IUCM |
IFPS Unit Configuration Manager |
|
IUHTAUTC |
If Used, Half Time Actually To Count |
|
IVR |
Immersive Virtual Reality |
|
IVRS |
interim voice response system |
|
IVSI |
Instantaneous Vertical Speed Indicator |
|
IVSN |
Initial Voice Switched Network |
|
IVSR |
Interim Voice Switch Replacement Program |
|
IVT |
Interactive Video Teletraining |
|
IW |
Inside Wiring |
|
IWGDS |
Interim Weather Graphic-Display System |
|
IWGE |
International Working Group on Exercises |
|
IWL |
Institute Warranty Limits |
|
IWP |
Intermediate Waypoint |
|
IІSLS |
Improved Interrogation Side Lobe Suppression |
|
J2EE |
Java 2 Enterprise Edition |
|
JAA |
Joint Aviation Authority |
|
JAA AMC |
JAA Acceptable Means of Compliance |
|
JAAB/JAA-B |
Joint Boards |
|
JAAC/JAA CE |
JAA Committee |
|
JAARC |
JAA Research Committee |
|
JAC |
Joint Airmiss Committee |
|
JACC |
Joint Area Control Centre |
|
JAI |
Joint Acceptance Inspection |
|
JAL |
Japan Air Lines |
|
JALPA |
Jamaica Air Line Pilots Association |
|
JAMC |
Joint Airspace Management Cell |
|
Jan |
January |
|
JAN |
January |
|
JAR |
Joint Airworthiness Regulations |
|
JAR |
Joint Aviation Requirements |
|
JAR-OPS |
Joint Airworthiness Requirements Operations |
|
Jato |
Jet Assisted Takeoff |
|
JCCA |
Joint Committee for Civil Aviation |
|
JCN |
Job Control Number |
|
JD TF |
Job Description Task Force |
|
JIT |
Joint Implementation Team |
|
JL |
Japan Air Lines |
|
JMCT |
Job Management Consultative Team [job analysis] |
|
JOINT |
Joint Operational Incidents Training |
|
JOT |
Joint Operational Team |
|
JP |
Japan |
|
JPDA |
Joint Probabilistic Data Association |
|
JPDO |
Joint Planning and Development Office's |
|
JPEG |
Joint Photographic Expert Group |
|
JRC |
Joint Resources Council |
|
JSP |
Joint Services Publication |
|
JSRA |
Joint Sponsored Research Agreement |
|
JSS |
Joint Surveillance System |
|
JSSI |
Joint Safety Strategy Initiative |
|
JST |
Joy Stick |
|
JTIDS |
Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (djay-tidz) |
|
JTSO |
Joint Technical Standard Order |
|
JTST |
Jet Stream |
|
JU |
JAT – Yugoslavian Airlines |
|
JUL |
July |
|
JUN |
June |
|
JURG |
Joint Users Requirements Group |
|
K |
Kilo- |
|
KAEPA |
Kuwait Aircraft Engineers and Pilots Association |
|
KAL |
Korean Airlines |
|
KALPA |
Kenya Air Line Pilots Association |
|
KAR |
Karlsruhe |
|
KARLDAP |
Karlsruhe Automatic Data Processing and Display System |
|
kb |
Kilo Bytes (1,000 Bytes) |
|
kbps |
kilobits per second |
|
KBS |
Knowledge-Based System |
|
KCAS |
Calibrated Airspeed expressed in Knots |
|
KCAS |
Knots Calibrated Airspeed |
|
KDS |
Keyboard Display System |
|
KE |
Kenya |
|
KE |
Korean Airlines |
|
KECU |
Thousands of European Currency Units |
|
kg |
Kilogram |
|
KHz |
kilohertz (1000 cycles per second) |
|
KIAS |
Knots Indicated Airspeed |
|
KLM |
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines |
|
Km |
Kilometer (1,000 meters) |
|
KSN |
Knowledge Services Network |
|
KT |
Knots |
|
Kvdt |
Keyboard Video Display Terminal |
|
Kw |
Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement) |
|
L |
Left |
|
L/C |
Letter of Credit |
|
LAA |
Local Airport Advisory |
|
LAAS |
Local Area Augmentation System |
|
LABSC |
LABS GS-200 Computer |
|
LABSR |
LABS Remote Equipment |
|
LABSW |
LABS Switch System |
|
lac |
Logical Access Control |
|
LACAC |
Latin American Civil Aviation Commission |
|
LADGPS |
Local Area Differential Global Positioning System |
|
LAF |
Local Adaptation Functions |
|
LAGPS |
Local Area Global Positioning System |
|
LAHSO |
Land and Hold Short Operations |
|
LAHSO |
Land And Hold Short Operation |
|
LAM |
Activation Message |
|
LAN |
Local Area Network |
|
LAS |
Lower Airspace Sector |
|
LASER |
Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser) |
|
LASKA |
Learning And Skills Acquisition |
|
LAT |
Latitude |
|
LATA |
Local Access and Transport Area |
|
LATC |
Local Air Traffic Control |
|
LATCC |
London Air Traffic Control Centre |
|
LATCO |
Licensing of Air Traffic Control Officers |
|
LAU |
Local Approach Unit |
|
LAWRS |
Limited Aviation Weather Reporting Station |
|
LAX |
Identifier for Los Angeles |
|
LAYCAN |
Layday Cancelling Date |
|
LB |
Local Battery |
|
LBR |
LAN Based Random Access Plan Position Indicator |
|
LC |
Local Control |
|
LCC |
Lifetime Cycle Costing |
|
LCD |
Liquid Cristal Display |
|
LCF |
Local Control Facility |
|
LCG |
Load Classification Group |
|
LCGS |
Low Cost Ground Surveillance Radar |
|
LCL |
Less Container Loaded |
|
LCM |
Late Change Message |
|
LCN |
Load Classification Number |
|
LCN |
Local Communications Network |
|
LCR |
Lowest Current Rate |
|
LCTD |
Located |
|
LDA |
Landing Distance Available |
|
Ldah |
Landing Distance Available Helicopter |
|
LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (pronounced Ell-dap) |
|
LDB |
Limited Data Block |
|
LDG |
Landing (aviation) |
|
LDGNSS |
Local Differential Global Navigation Satellite System |
|
LDGPS |
Local DGPS |
|
LDI |
Landing Direction Indicator |
|
Ldin |
Lead-in Lights |
|
LDM |
Low dispersible material |
|
LDR |
Labor Distribution Reporting |
|
LDT |
Logistic Delay Time |
|
LEC |
Local Exchange Carrier |
|
LECT |
Lecture |
|
LED |
law enforcement desk; light emitting diode |
|
LEFD |
Local Essential Flight Details |
|
LEN |
Lenght |
|
LEO |
Low Earth Orbit (satellite communications) |
|
LF |
Load Factor |
|
lf |
Late Filer |
|
LF |
Low Frequency |
|
LF |
Later Filter |
|
LFA |
Local Flying Area |
|
LFC |
Air Defence Centre |
|
LFDS |
Large Facility Demarcation System |
|
LFHB |
Low Flying Handbook |
|
LFL |
Last Flight Level |
|
LFME |
Local Flow Management Enhancements |
|
LFP |
Low Pass Filter |
|
LFPP |
Limited Flight Plan Processing |
|
LFR |
Low-frequency Radio Range |
|
LFS |
Low-Fidelity-Simulation |
|
LFU |
Late Filer and Udater |
|
LFV |
Luftfartsverket |
|
LGT |
Light |
|
LGTD |
Lighted |
|
LH |
Lufthansa German Airlines |
|
LHCP |
Left Hand Circular Polarisation |
|
LHR |
London Heathrow Airport, London, United Kingdom |
|
LIALPA |
Leeward Islands Air Line Pilots' Association |
|
LIDAR |
Lander Light Detection and Ranging |
|
LIDO |
Lufthansa Integrated Dispatch Operation |
|
LIFR |
Low Instrument Flight Rules |
|
LIH |
Light Intensity High |
|
LIL |
Light Intensity Low |
|
LIM |
Limit |
|
LINCS |
Leased Interfacility NAS Communications System |
|
Lip |
Limited Installation Program |
|
LIRL |
Low Intensity Runway Lights |
|
LIS |
Logistics and Inventory System |
|
LISREL |
Linear Structural Relations |
|
LIT-ALPA |
Lithuanian Airline Pilots Association |
|
LIW |
Label Input Window |
|
LLC |
Link Layer Control |
|
LLWAS |
Low Level Wind Shear Alert System |
|
LM/MS |
Low/Medium Frequency |
|
LMM |
Compass locator at the middle marker |
|
LMM |
Locator middle marker |
|
LNAV |
Lateral Navigation |
|
LNG |
Liquefied Natural Gas |
|
LO |
Low |
|
LOA |
Letter Of Agreement |
|
LOA |
Length Overall |
|
LOB |
Line Of Business |
|
LOC |
Localizer Beam |
|
LOCID |
Location Identifier |
|
LOE |
Line Oriented Evaluation |
|
LOF |
Lloyds Open Form |
|
LOFT |
Line-Oriented Flight Training |
|
LOI |
Letter of Indemnity |
|
LOI |
Letter Of Intent |
|
LOM |
Compass Locator at the Outer Marker |
|
LON |
Longitude |
|
LORAN |
Long Range Navigational System |
|
LORAN |
Long-Range Aid to Navigation |
|
LOS |
Line-Oriented Simulation |
|
LOSA |
Line Orientated Safety Audit |
|
LOV |
List Of Values |
|
LOW |
Last Open Water |
|
LPA |
Lebanese Pilots Association |
|
LPC |
Logistics Program Coordinator |
|
LRC |
Long Range Cruise |
|
LRCO |
Limited Remote Communications Outlet |
|
LRM |
Line Replacement Modules |
|
LRNAV |
Long Range Navigation |
|
LRNS |
Long-Range Navigation System |
|
LROPS |
Long Range Operations |
|
LRR |
Long Range Radar or Low Cost Radar |
|
LRRAP |
Long Range Resource Allocation Plan |
|
LRU |
Line Replaceable Unit |
|
LRU |
Line Replacement Unit |
|
LS |
Lumpsum Freight |
|
LSA |
Lysergic Acid Amide |
|
LSD |
Lashed Secured Dunnaged |
|
LSMS |
Line Station Maintenance Section |
|
LT |
Long Ton |
|
LT |
Liner Terms |
|
LTF |
Licensing Task Force |
|
LTHH |
Liner Terms Hook/Hook (shipping) |
|
LTIOV |
Latest Time Information of Value |
|
LTOG |
Long Term Objectives Groups |
|
LTP |
Landing Threshold Point |
|
LTSS |
Long Term Systems Studies |
|
LTT |
Landine TeleTypewriter |
|
LTV |
Load Threshold Values |
|
LUG |
Leerdam Users Group |
|
LUGS |
Link up Glons-Semmerzake |
|
LUX |
Findel International Airport, Luxembourg-Findel, Luxembourg |
|
LVA |
Large Vertical Aperture |
|
LVB |
Luchtverkeersbeveiliging |
|
Lve |
Leave |
|
LVL |
Level |
|
LVL CHG |
Level Change |
|
LVP |
Low Visibility Procedures |
|
LW |
landing weight |
|
LW |
Low Water |
|
LWG |
Licensing Work Group |
|
LX |
Crossair |
|
LY |
El Al Israel Airlines |
|
LYCN |
Layday Cancelling Date |
|
LYR |
Layer |
|
LZ |
Balkan Bulgarian Airlines |
|
M |
Manual |
|
M-ADS |
Modified Automatic Dependent Surveillance |
|
m. |
meter |
|
M/ASI |
Mach/Airspeed Indicator |
|
m/sec |
Metres per second |
|
M/T |
Medium-Term |
|
M/V |
Merchant Vessel |
|
M/V |
Motor Vessel |
|
M1FC |
Model 1 Full Capacity |
|
M:M |
Many-to-Many Relationship |
|
MAA |
maximum authorized IFR altitude |
|
MAA |
Maximum Authorized Altitude |
|
MACE |
Multi-criteria analysis for Concept Evaluation |
|
MACEN |
Mando Centra |
|
MACS |
Multiple Access Communications System (Netherlands & FRG) |
|
MAD |
Model of Activity for Design |
|
MADAP |
Maastricht Automatic Data Processing and Display System |
|
MADREC |
Maastricht Data Recording |
|
MAG |
Magnetic |
|
MAINT |
Maintenance |
|
MALPA |
Mauritius Air Line Pilots Association |
|
MALS |
Medium-Intensity Approach Lighting System |
|
MALSF |
Medium-Intensuty Approach Light System with Sequenced Flashers |
|
MAM |
Maintenance Assumed Monitoring |
|
MAN |
Metropolitan Area Network |
|
MAN |
Manual |
|
MANIFEST |
Inventory of cargo on board |
|
MAP |
Missed APproach |
|
MAPA |
Malaysian Airline Pilots Association |
|
MAPE |
Mean Absolute Percentage Errors |
|
MAPT |
Missed Approach Point |
|
MAR |
March |
|
MASPS |
Minimum Aviation Systems Performance Standards |
|
MASS |
Maintenance Automation System Software |
|
MAT |
Maintenance Access Terminal |
|
MATSE |
Meeting on the Air Traffic System in Europe |
|
MAUW |
Maximum All Up Weight |
|
MAX |
Maximum |
|
MAX CLB |
Maximum Engine Thrust for Two-Engine Climb |
|
MAX CRZ |
Maximum Engine Thrust for Two-Engine Cruise |
|
MB |
Merchant Broker |
|
MBA |
Microburst Alert |
|
MBO |
Management by Objective |
|
Mbps |
Megabits per second |
|
Mbps |
Mega Bits per second |
|
MBR |
Mittel-Bereich radar |
|
MBST |
Microburst |
|
MBT |
Maneuvers Based Training |
|
MCA |
Minimum Crossing Altitude |
|
MCAS |
Marine Corps Air Station |
|
MCC |
Multi Crew Coordination |
|
MCC |
Maintenance Control Center |
|
MCDU |
Multipurpose Control Display Unit |
|
MCDU |
Multifunction Control Display Unit |
|
MCE |
Management Centre Europe |
|
MCF |
Manning Calculation Formula |
|
MCI |
mode C intruder |
|
MCK |
Maintenance Check |
|
MCL |
Middle Compass Locater |
|
MCMG |
Military Committee Meteorological Group |
|
MCP |
Mode Control Panel |
|
MCS |
Maintenance and Control System |
|
MCSG |
Military Committee Staff Group |
|
MCT |
Maximum Continuous Thrust |
|
MCTR |
Military CTR |
|
MCW |
Modulated Continuous Wave |
|
MDA |
Minimum Descent Altitude |
|
MDA |
McDonnell-Douglas Aerospace |
|
Mda/h |
Minimum Descent Altitude/Height |
|
Mdau |
Maintenance Data Acquisition Unit |
|
MDCRS |
Metereological Data Collection and Reporting System |
|
MDD |
Meteorological Data Distribution |
|
MDFM |
Material Delivery Forecast Module |
|
MDH |
Minimum Descent Height |
|
MDL |
Multipurpose Data Link |
|
MDO |
Marine Diesel Oil |
|
MDT |
Maintenance Data Terminal |
|
MDT |
Mean Down Time |
|
ME |
Multi-engine |
|
MEA |
Minimum Enroute Altitude |
|
MEARTS |
Micro-EARTS |
|
MEB |
Main Earthing Bar |
|
MECACON |
Middle East Civil Aviation Conference |
|
MECO |
Main Engine Cutoff |
|
MECU |
Millons of ECU |
|
MEDLL |
Multipath Delay Lock Loop |
|
MEL |
Minimum Equipment List |
|
Met |
Meteorological |
|
METAG |
MET Advisory Group |
|
METAR |
Meteorological Aerodrome Report |
|
METAR |
Meteorological Terminal Aviation Routine Weather Report |
|
Meti |
Meteorological Information |
|
METODA |
Meteorological Observations and Information Distribution Arrangements for Local Aeronautical Users |
|
MF |
Middle Frequency |
|
MFJ |
Modified Final Judgment |
|
MFO |
Medical Field Office |
|
MFT |
Meter Fix Crossing Time/Slot Time |
|
MHA |
Minimum Holding Altitude |
|
MHZ |
Megahertz (Megacycles Per Second) |
|
MIA |
Minimum IFR Altitudes |
|
MIDAS |
Man-Machine Integration Design and Analysis System |
|
MIDAS |
Multi-Discipline Data Analysis System |
|
Mido |
Manufacturing Inspection District Office |
|
MIL |
Military |
|
MILSPEC |
Military Specifications |
|
MIN |
Minimum |
|
MIN/MAX |
Minimum/Maximum |
|
MIO |
Manufacturing Inspection Office |
|
MIP |
Multinational Information Production |
|
MIPS |
Millions of Instructions Per Second |
|
MIR |
Master Inspection Record |
|
MIRACULIX |
Multi Interface Radarformat Calculator and |
|
MIRL |
Medium Intensity Runway Lights |
|
MISO |
Manufacturing Inspection Satellite Office |
|
MIT |
Miles-In-Trail |
|
MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.) |
|
MIW |
Message in Window |
|
MK |
Republic of Macedonia |
|
MKR |
Marker Radio Beacon |
|
MLA |
ManeuverLimited Altitude |
|
MLD |
Military Liaison Division |
|
MLDT |
Mean Logistic Down Time |
|
MLE |
Landing Gear Extended Placard Mach Number |
|
MLS |
Microwave Landing Systems |
|
MLS |
Microwave Landing System |
|
MLW |
Maximum Landing Weight |
|
MM |
Middle Marker |
|
MMAC |
Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center |
|
MMC |
Maintenance Monitoring Console |
|
MMEL |
Master Minimum Equipment List |
|
MMI |
Marshall Management Instruction |
|
MMIL |
Martin-Marietta International Link |
|
MMO |
Mach Max Operating |
|
MMOC |
Martin-Marietta Overseas Corporation |
|
MMPI |
Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory |
|
MMPI |
Minnesota Multi-phasic Personality Inventory |
|
MMR |
Multi-Mode Receiver |
|
MMS |
Maintenance Monitoring System |
|
MMU |
Memory Management Unit |
|
MN |
Magnetic North |
|
MNC |
Major NATO Command (NATO) |
|
MNCC |
Multinational Coordination Centre |
|
MNM |
Minimum |
|
MNOP |
Maximum Normal Operating Pressure |
|
MNPSA |
Minimum Navigation Performance Specifications Airspace |
|
MNPSA |
Minimum Navigation Performance Specification Airspace |
|
MNS |
Mobile Network Service |
|
MNS |
Mission Needs Statement |
|
MNTN |
Maintain |
|
MNWG |
Multinational Working Group |
|
MOA |
Memorandum of Understanding |
|
MOA |
Memorandum Of Agreement |
|
MOC |
Memorandum Of Cooperation |
|
MOCA |
Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitude |
|
MOCBITE |
Maastricht Operational Computer Based |
|
MOCC |
Mid-States Operations Control Center |
|
MOD |
Memorandum of Decision |
|
MOD |
Modified |
|
MODE C |
Altitude Reporting Mode of Secondary Radar |
|
MODEM |
Modulator-Demodulator |
|
MODIS |
moderate-resolution imaging spectrometer (NASA/GSFC) |
|
MOGAS |
Motor Gasoline |
|
MOLCHOPT |
More or Less Charterers Option |
|
MOLOO |
More or Less Owners Option |
|
MONA |
Monitoring Aids |
|
MONA User |
Monitoring Aids User |
|
MOPS |
Minimum Operation Performance Standards |
|
MOPS |
Minimum Operational Performance Standards |
|
MOR |
Military Operational Requirements |
|
MORS |
Mandatory Occurrence Reporting Scheme |
|
MOS |
Military Operations Specialst |
|
MOTNE |
Meteorological Operational Telecommunication Network in Europe |
|
MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding (an MOU between Food & Drug Administratin and a regulatory agency in another country allows mutual recognition of inspections) |
|
MPAR |
Multifunction Phased Array Radar |
|
MPL |
Multi-crew Pilot Licence |
|
MPO |
Metropolitan Planning Organization |
|
MRA |
Minimum Reception Altitude |
|
MRC |
Monthly Recurring Charge |
|
MRM |
Maintenance Returned Monitoring |
|
MRVA |
Minimum Radar Vector Altitude |
|
MS-DTS |
Medium Speed-Data Transmission System |
|
MSA |
Minimum Safe Altitude |
|
MSAW |
Minimum Safe Altitude Warning |
|
MSD |
Multi-Site Damage |
|
MSDA |
Material Safety Data Sheet |
|
MSDS |
Microsoft Data Engine |
|
MSF |
Master Simulation Facility |
|
MSG |
Message |
|
MSGDLP |
Mode S Ground Data Link Processor |
|
MSGSUM |
Message Summary |
|
MSGTXT |
Message Text |
|
MSK |
Minimum Shift Keying |
|
MSL |
Mean Sea Level |
|
MSN |
Message Switching Network |
|
MSR |
Monthly Status Report |
|
MSRT |
Mean Services Restoration Time |
|
MSS |
Message Storage System |
|
MSSA |
Message Switching System |
|
MSSR |
Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Radar |
|
MST |
Multiple Sensor Tracking |
|
MSTU |
Multiple Stagger Trigger Unit |
|
MSUP |
Military SUPervisor |
|
MT |
Mertic Tonne |
|
MTA |
Military Training Area |
|
MTAC |
Multiple Time Around Clutter |
|
MTAT |
Multiple Time Around Targets |
|
MTBCF |
Mean Time Between Critical Failures |
|
MTBF |
Mean Time Before Failure |
|
MTBR |
Mean Time Between Replacement |
|
MTCA |
Medium Term Conflict Alert |
|
MTCD |
Medium Term Conflict Detection |
|
MTCDR |
Medium-Term Conflict Detection and Resolution |
|
MTCEP |
Medium Term Capacity Enhancement Plan |
|
MTCS |
Modular Terminal Communications System |
|
MTD |
Moving Target Detection |
|
MTF |
Modulation transfer function. |
|
MTI |
Moving Target Indicator |
|
MTMA |
Major TMA |
|
MTN |
Mega Transport Network |
|
MTOM |
Maximum Take-Off Mass |
|
MTOW |
Maximum Take-off Weight |
|
MTP |
Medium-Term Plan |
|
MTPA |
Mobile Transponder Performance Analyser |
|
MTR |
Military Training Route |
|
Mtraq |
Multi track quality |
|
MTSAT |
Multi-functional Transport Satellite |
|
MTTF |
Mean Time To Failure |
|
MTTR |
Mean Time To Repair |
|
MTTRlru |
Mean Time to repair LRU |
|
MTTRp |
Mean Time to repair product |
|
MTTRsru |
Mean Time to repair SRU |
|
MTW |
Mountain Waves |
|
MTWA |
Maximum Takeoff Weight Authorized |
|
MU |
Management Unit |
|
MUAC |
Military Upper Area Control |
|
MUD |
Mud Log |
|
MUDPIE |
Multiple User Data Processing Interactive Environment |
|
Muratrec |
Multi-Radar Track Reconstruction |
|
MUSAC |
Multiple Switching and Confirming |
|
Mut |
Mean Up Time |
|
MVA |
Minimum Vectoring Altitude |
|
MVE |
Move |
|
MVFR |
Marginal Visual Flight Rules |
|
MWP |
Meteorological Weather Processor |
|
N |
North |
|
N/A |
Not Applicable |
|
N1 |
Gas generator speed |
|
N2 |
Second stage turbine speed |
|
NAABSA |
Not Always Afloat But Safely Aground |
|
NAAN |
North Atlantic ADS-B Network |
|
NAAPE |
National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers |
|
NAAQS |
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (US) |
|
NACA |
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
|
NACG |
National Aeronautical Charting Group |
|
NADA |
NADIN Concentrator |
|
NADIN |
National Airspace Data Interchange Network |
|
NADIN II |
National Airspace Data Interchange Network II |
|
NADSW |
NADIN Switches |
|
NAILS |
National Airspace Integrated Logistics Support |
|
NAMS |
NADIN IA |
|
NAP |
Needs Assessment Program |
|
NAPA |
Namibia Air Line Pilots Association |
|
NAPM |
National Associate Program Manager |
|
NAPRS |
National Airspace Performance Reporting System |
|
NAR |
National Airspace Review 66 |
|
NARACS |
National Radio Communications System |
|
NARG |
Navigation Aids and Area Navigation Group |
|
NARP |
National Aviation Research Plan |
|
NAS |
National Airspace System |
|
NAS |
National Aircraft Standard |
|
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US) |
|
NASDC |
National Aviation Safety Data |
|
NASE |
NAS Adaptation Services Environment |
|
NASP |
National Airspace System Plan |
|
NASPAC |
National Airspace System Performance Analysis Capability |
|
NASR |
National Airspace System Resources |
|
NASTEP |
National Airspace System Technical Evaluation Program |
|
NAT ADS |
North Atlantic Automatic Dependent Surveillance |
|
NAT ATMG |
North Atlantic Air Traffic Management |
|
NAT CMA |
North Atlantic Region Central Monitoring Agency |
|
NAT IMG |
North Atlantic Implementation Management Group |
|
NAT MWG |
North Atlantic Mathematicians Working Group |
|
NAT NAM |
North Atlantic / North America |
|
NAT SPG |
North Atlantic Systems Planning Group |
|
NAT-TFG |
North Atlantic Air Traffic Forecasting Group |
|
NATCO |
National Communications Switching Center |
|
NATCON |
North Atlantic Concept |
|
NATINAD(S) |
NATO Europe Integrated Air Defence |
|
NATMC |
NATO Air Traffic Management Committee |
|
NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
|
NATS |
National Air Traffic Services (UK) |
|
NATSPG |
North Atlantic Systems Planning Group |
|
NAV-1 |
Radar Data System |
|
NAVAID |
Navigational Aid |
|
NAVAID |
Navigation Aid |
|
NAVAIDS |
Navigational Aids |
|
NAVDB |
Navigation Data Base |
|
NAVMN |
Navigation Monitor and Control |
|
NAVSAT |
Navigation Satellite |
|
NAVSEP |
Panel Experts on Navigation and Separation |
|
NAVSEP |
Navigation and Separation Specialist Panel |
|
NAWAU |
National Aviation Weather Advisory Unit |
|
NAWPF |
National Aviation Weather Processing Facility |
|
NB |
NorthBound |
|
NBAA |
National Business Aircraft Association |
|
NBCAP |
National Beacon Code Allocation Plan |
|
NBCFAE |
National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees |
|
Nbfr |
Not Before |
|
NCAB |
National Civil Aviation Board |
|
NCAIC |
National Civil Aviation Information Centre |
|
NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research (US) |
|
NCB |
National Cargo Bureau |
|
NCCA |
No Clearance to Civil Aircraft |
|
NCD |
No Computed Data |
|
NCF |
National Control Facility |
|
NCIPD |
National CIP Documents |
|
NCIU |
NEXRAD Communications Interface Unit |
|
NCMS |
Network Channel Management Station |
|
NCN |
Non-compliance Notification |
|
NCOP |
Entry Coordination Point |
|
NCS |
National Communications System |
|
NCW |
Non Conformance Warning |
|
ND |
Navigation Display |
|
NDA |
Next Data Authority |
|
NDB |
Non-Directional Beacon |
|
NDB |
Non-directional radio beacon |
|
NDB |
Nondirectional Radio Beacon |
|
NDC |
National Data Center |
|
NDE |
Node Processor |
|
NDI |
Nondestructive Inspection |
|
NDNB |
NADIN II |
|
NDP |
National Airspace System Defense Programs |
|
NEAN |
North European ADS-B Network |
|
NEAP |
North European Application Project |
|
NEC |
National Electric Code |
|
Neg |
NEGative |
|
NEM |
Noise Exposure Map |
|
NEMC |
Network Enterprise Maintenance Center |
|
NEPA |
National Energy Policy Act of 1992 |
|
NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
|
NEXRAD |
Next Generation Weather Radar |
|
NextGen |
Next Generation Air Transportation System |
|
NF |
Norwegian Air Line Pilots Association |
|
NFAX |
National Facsimile Service |
|
NFD |
National Flight Database |
|
NFDC |
National Flight Data Center |
|
NFDD |
National Flight Data Digest |
|
NFIS |
NAS Facilities Information System |
|
NFP |
NIMS Premier Facility |
|
NFPA |
National Fire Protection Association |
|
NGA |
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (formerly National Imagery and Mapping Agency; US government) |
|
NGATM |
New Generation Air Traffic Manager |
|
NHCFAE |
National Hispanic Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees |
|
NI |
Network Interface |
|
NIMA |
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (became National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency|NGA) |
|
NIMS |
NAS Infrastructure Management System |
|
NIPT |
National Infrastructure Planning Team |
|
NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technologies |
|
Nl |
Engine Revolutions per Minute |
|
NLA |
New Large Aircraft |
|
NLM |
Network Loadable Module |
|
NLR |
National Research Laboratory |
|
NM |
Nautical Mile |
|
NMAC |
Near Mid-Air Collision |
|
NMB |
National Mediation Board |
|
NMC |
National Meteorological Center (US) |
|
NMCE |
Network Monitoring and Control Equipment |
|
NMCS |
Network Monitoring and Control System |
|
NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US) |
|
NOC |
Notice Of Completion |
|
NOCC |
National Operation Control Center |
|
NODE |
NATS Operational Display Equipment |
|
NOF |
NOTAM Office |
|
NOG |
National Operations Group |
|
NOG-FSG |
NOG Features Subgroup |
|
NOM |
NAS Operations Manager |
|
NOMAS |
NOTAM Management System |
|
Nonstd |
Nonstandard |
|
NOPT |
No Procedure Turn Required |
|
NOR |
Notice of Readiness |
|
NORAC |
No Radio Contact |
|
NORDO |
No-Radio |
|
NOREP |
National Oceanic Review and Enhancement Program |
|
NOSIG |
No Significant Change |
|
NOTAM |
Notice for Airman |
|
NOTAM |
Notice to Airmen |
|
NOTAMC |
Notam Cancelling another Notam |
|
NOTAMN |
New Notam |
|
NOTAMR |
Notam Replacing another Notam |
|
NOV |
November |
|
NP |
Propeller speed |
|
NP |
Network Protocol |
|
NPA |
Non Precision Approaches |
|
NPA |
Notice of Proposed Amendments |
|
NPDU |
Network Protocol Data Unit |
|
NPE |
Non-primary Airport Entitlement |
|
NPIAS |
National Plan for Integrated Airport Systems |
|
NPL |
Night Plan |
|
NPM |
NAS Program Manager/Management |
|
NPO |
Scientific Production Organisation |
|
NPR |
National Performance Review (office) |
|
NPRM |
Notice Of Proposed Rule Making |
|
NPS |
Navigation Performance Scales |
|
NPV |
Net Present Value {economics} |
|
NR |
Noise Rating |
|
Nr. |
Number |
|
NRC |
Non-Recurring Charge |
|
NRCS |
National Radio Communications Systems |
|
NRF |
NATS Research Facility |
|
Nrh |
No Reply Heard |
|
NRL |
Naval Research Laboratory |
|
NRP |
National Route Program |
|
NRT |
Net Restricted Tonnage |
|
NRZ |
Non-Return-To-Zero |
|
NRZI |
Non Return to Zero Inverted magnetic tape bpi |
|
NSAP |
Network Service Access Point |
|
NSAP |
National Service Assurance Plan |
|
NSC |
National Service Center |
|
NSD |
Navigational Status Display |
|
NSD |
Navigation System Database |
|
NSDU |
Network Service Data Unit |
|
NSE |
Navigation System Error |
|
NSM |
Network System Manager |
|
nsp |
National Simulator Program |
|
NSRCATN |
National Strategy to Reduce Congestion on America's Transportation Network |
|
NSSFC |
National Severe Storms Forecast Center |
|
NSSG |
Navigation and Separation Sub-Group |
|
NSSL |
National Severe Storms Laboratory |
|
NSSR |
New Secondary Surveillance Radar Code |
|
NSTB |
National Satellite Test Bed |
|
NSVN |
NATO Secure Voice Network |
|
NSW |
No Significant Weather |
|
NSWC |
Naval Surface Warfare Centre |
|
Nswrh |
Nws Regional Headquarters |
|
NTAP |
Notices To Airmen Publication |
|
NTAP |
Notice to Airman Publication |
|
NTE |
Not-To-Exceed |
|
NTM F/T SIM |
Nattenheim Fast Time Simulation |
|
NTN |
Network Terminal Number |
|
NTRY |
Entry |
|
NTS |
NOTAM Tracking System |
|
NTSB |
US National Transportation Safety Board |
|
NTZ |
No Transgression Zone |
|
NUA |
Network User Addresses |
|
Nudet |
Nuclear Detection |
|
NUP |
NEAN Update Programme |
|
NVFR |
VFR by night |
|
NW |
Northwest Airlines |
|
NWS |
National Weather Service (formerly U.S. Weather Bureau) |
|
NWSR |
NWS Weather Excluding NXRD |
|
NXRD |
Advanced Weather Radar System |
|
NYPE |
New York Produce Exchange |
|
NZ-ALPA |
New Zealand Air Line Pilots Association |
|
O&M |
Operation and Maintenance |
|
O-QAR |
Optical Quick Access Recorder |
|
O21 |
Ocean21 |
|
OA |
Object Oriented Analysis |
|
OAG |
Official Airline Guide |
|
OALT |
Operational Acceptable Level of Traffic |
|
OAMP |
Off-line Aircraft Management Program |
|
OAP |
Oceanic Automation Program |
|
OAS |
Oceanic Automation System |
|
OASIS |
Operational and Supportability Implementation System |
|
OAT |
Outside Air Temperature |
|
OAT |
Outside AirTemperature |
|
OATS |
Office Automation Technology Services |
|
OATS |
Orbit and Attitude Tracking |
|
Oaw |
Off-Airway Weather Station |
|
OBO |
Ore/Bulk/Oil vessel |
|
OBS |
omni-bearing selector |
|
Obst |
Obstacle |
|
OBTEX |
Offboard Targeting Experiments |
|
OC4J |
Oracle Containers for Java Enterprise Edition |
|
OCA |
Oceanic Control Area |
|
OCC |
Operations control center |
|
OCDB |
Oracle Content Database |
|
OCS |
Oceanic Control System |
|
OCT |
October |
|
OCU |
Onboard Maintenance Terminal Controller Unit |
|
Odal |
Omnidirectional Approach Lighting System |
|
ODALS |
Omnidirectional Approach Lighting Systems |
|
ODAPS |
Operational OGE Data Acquisition and Patch Subsystem |
|
ODETE |
On-Line Data Exchange Terminal |
|
ODIAC-TF |
Operational Development of Initial A/g data Communications Task Force |
|
ODID |
Operational Display and Input Development |
|
ODID |
Operational Input and Display System |
|
ODIF |
Open Document Interchange Format |
|
ODIN |
Briefing System |
|
ODL |
Oceanic Data Link |
|
ODP |
ATM Operational Requirements & Data Processing |
|
ODRA |
Office of Dispute Resolution for Acquisition |
|
ODS |
Operational Data Store (knowledge management) |
|
ODT |
Onboard Maintenance Terminal Display Unit |
|
ODT |
Operational Requirements and Data Processing Team |
|
ODU |
Output Distribution Unit |
|
OE |
Obstacle Evaluation |
|
OE/AAA |
Obstruction Evaluation/Airport Airspace Analysis |
|
OEM |
Original Equipment Manufacturer (usually in reference to car parts) |
|
OEP |
Operational Evolution Plan |
|
OETS |
Obstacle Evaluation Tracking System |
|
OFA |
Object Free Area |
|
Ofdps |
Offshore Flight Data Processing System |
|
OFFPDR |
Off Predetermined Route |
|
OFIR |
Oceanic FIR |
|
OFIS |
Operational Flight Information System |
|
OFL |
Off-Line |
|
OFS |
Ordered Field Sequencing |
|
OFST |
Lateral Offset Active Light |
|
OFT |
Outer Fix Time |
|
OFZ |
Obstacle Free Zone |
|
OGC |
Open Geospatial Consortium |
|
OGE |
Operational Ground Equipment |
|
OGM |
Objectives > Goals > Mission |
|
OGP |
Oil and Gas Producers Aviation Sub Committee |
|
OH |
Operational Handbook |
|
OHP |
Over Head Projector |
|
OHTF |
Operational Harmonisation Task Force |
|
OIDS |
Operational Information Display System |
|
OIG |
Office of the Inspector General |
|
OIP |
Organization Iberoamericana de Pilotos |
|
OIS |
OGE Input Simulator |
|
OJT |
On the Job Training |
|
OJTI |
On-the-Job-Training Instructor |
|
OK |
Czech Airlines |
|
OL |
Operating Location |
|
OLDI |
On-Line Data Interchange |
|
OLDINA |
OLNO, Diekirch, Nattenheim |
|
OLDISP |
OLDI Specialist Panel |
|
OLR |
Off Load Routes |
|
OLS |
Off Line System |
|
OM |
Outer Marker (ILS) |
|
OMB |
Office of Management and Budget (U.S.) |
|
OMD |
Operational Management Domain |
|
OMEGA |
Very Low Radio Navigation System |
|
OMG |
Operational Monitoring Group |
|
OMI |
Organisation Maritime Internationale (French: International Maritime Organization; UN) |
|
OMIC |
Operations Manager in Charge |
|
OMS |
On-board Maintenance System |
|
OMT |
Onboard Maintenance Terminal |
|
ONC |
Operational Navigation Chart |
|
ONER |
Oceanic Navigational Error Report |
|
ONL |
On-Line Plc (London Stock Exchange [LSE]) |
|
ONP |
Open Network Provision |
|
OO |
Owners Option |
|
OO |
SkyWest Airlines |
|
OOD |
Object Oriented Designer |
|
OOR |
Outline Operational Requirement |
|
OP |
Operational |
|
OPA |
Opaque, white type if ice formation |
|
OPAC |
Operations of Aircraft |
|
OPADD |
Operating Procedures for AIS Dynamic Data |
|
OPB |
Outer Performance Boundary |
|
OPC |
The control indicated is operational control |
|
OPD |
Operational Procedures Document |
|
OPD |
Optimum Profile Descent |
|
OPI |
Office of Primary Interest |
|
OPIF |
Operator Interface |
|
OPLAN |
Operational Plan |
|
OPLT |
Operational Acceptable Level of Traffic |
|
OPM |
Office of Personnel Management |
|
OPR |
Office of Primary Responsibility |
|
OPR |
Air Traffic Management Operational Requirements |
|
Ops |
Operations |
|
OPS/AIR |
Operations/Airworthiness |
|
OPSNET |
Operations Network |
|
OPSP |
Operational Panel |
|
OPSW |
Operational Switch |
|
OPT |
Optimum |
|
OPX |
Off-Premises Exchange |
|
ORCAM |
Originating Region Code Assignment Method |
|
ORS |
Obstruction Repository System |
|
OSA |
Operational Safety Assessment |
|
OSD |
Operational Suitability Demonstration |
|
OSDS |
Oceanic System Development and Support |
|
OSH |
Open Shelter Deck |
|
OSI |
Open Sytem Interconnection |
|
OSI |
Open Systems Interconnection (iso Standard) |
|
OSIP |
Office Safety Inspection Program |
|
OSRWG |
Oceanic Separation Reduction Working Group |
|
OST |
Office of the Secretary of Transportation |
|
OT&E |
Operational Test and Evaluation |
|
OTFO |
Operations Technical Field Office |
|
OTFP |
Operational Traffic Flow Planning (aviation) |
|
OTPS |
Oceanic Traffic Planning System |
|
OTR |
Oceanic Transition Route |
|
OTT |
D_OTIS Termination Message |
|
OTV |
Orbital Transfer Vehicle |
|
OU |
Croatia Airlines |
|
OUNS |
Operational Navigation System |
|
OUR |
CFMU Operational User Requirements |
|
OUR |
Operational Users Requirements |
|
OUTB |
Outbound |
|
OV |
Overseas National Airways |
|
OVC |
Overcast (METAR Code) |
|
OVERBOARD |
Over the side or out of the ship |
|
Own |
TCAS II equipped aircraft - source of TCAS event |
|
OWS |
Owners |
|
P |
Procedure-Required Tuned NAVAID |
|
P&H |
Press and Hold |
|
P&I |
Protection and Indemnity insurance |
|
P,R,D Area |
Prohibited, Restricted, or Danger Area |
|
P.ACCs |
Pairs of ACCs |
|
p.t.t |
Push-to-Talk |
|
P2R2 |
Preferred Route Reduction Program |
|
PA |
Project Authorization |
|
PA |
Pan American Airways |
|
PAA |
Plot Accuracy Analysis |
|
PAAST |
Pan American Aviation Safety Team |
|
PABX |
private automatic branch exchange (telephone) |
|
PABX |
Private Automated Branch EXchange (company Phone System) |
|
PACOTS |
Pacific Organised Track System |
|
PAD |
Packet Assembler Disassembler |
|
PAD |
Packet Assembler/Disassembler |
|
PAEW |
Personnel and Equipment Working |
|
PAK |
Pilot Acknowledgement |
|
PALLAS |
Phased Automation of the Hellenic ATC System |
|
PALPA |
Pakistan Air Line Pilots' Association |
|
PALPU |
Pancyprian Airline Pilots Union |
|
PALS |
Precision Approach Lighting System |
|
PAM |
Peripheral Adapter Module |
|
PAMC |
Provisional Acceptable Means of Compliance |
|
PAMPLAY |
PAM rePLAY system |
|
PAMRI |
Peripheral Adapter Module Replacement Item |
|
PAMS |
Published AIP Management Systerm |
|
PANS |
Procedures for Air Navigation Services |
|
PANS |
Procedures for Air Navigational Services |
|
PANS-OPS |
Procedures for Air Navigational Services - Aircraft Operations |
|
PAPI |
Precision Approach Path Indicator (aviation) |
|
PAQ |
Position Analysis Questionnaire |
|
PAR |
Precision Approach Radar |
|
PARI |
Precursor, Action, Result, Interpretation |
|
PAS |
Project Assignment Sheet |
|
PASS |
Professional Airway System Specialists |
|
PASTUS |
Past Us |
|
PASYI |
Pan-Cyprian Airline Pilots Union |
|
PATA |
Polish Air Traffic Agency |
|
PATCG |
PHARE Advanced Tools Co-ordination Group |
|
PATCO |
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association |
|
PATRAM |
Packaging and Transport of Radioactive Materials |
|
PATS |
Precision Approach Tracking System |
|
PATWAS |
Pilot's Automatic Telephone Weather Answering Service |
|
PAWES |
performance assessment and workload evaluation |
|
PBCT |
Proposed Boundary Crossing Time |
|
PBD |
Place Bearing/Distance |
|
PBRF |
Pilot Briefing |
|
PBS |
Preferential Bidding System |
|
PBX |
Private Branch eXchange (company phone system) |
|
PC |
Period of Charter |
|
PCA |
Propulsion Controlled Aircraft |
|
PCA |
Positive Control Airspace |
|
PCATD |
Personal Computer-Based Aviation Training Device |
|
PCB |
Personnel Compensation and Benefits |
|
PCB |
printed circuit board |
|
PCB&T |
Personnel Compensation Benefits and Travel |
|
PCC |
Planning Co-ordination Controller |
|
PCGO |
Part Cargo |
|
PCM |
Pulse-Code Modulation |
|
PCM |
Post Crash Management |
|
PCN |
Project Control Number |
|
PCPS |
Purchase Card Processing System |
|
PCT |
Percent |
|
PD |
Profile Descent |
|
PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
|
PDAR |
Preferential Arrival And Departure Route |
|
PDB |
Performance Data Base |
|
PDC |
Pre-Departure Clearance |
|
PDF |
Portable Document Format (created by Adobe Acrobat) |
|
PDN |
Public Data Network |
|
PDPR |
Per Day Pro Rata |
|
PDR |
Preferential Departure Route |
|
PDRP |
Problem Detection and Resolution |
|
PDS |
Programme Development System |
|
PDS |
Proficiency Development Specialists |
|
PDTWG |
Plot Data Transmission Working Group |
|
PEA |
Parameter and Environment Assembler |
|
PEC |
Pressure Error Correction |
|
PEC |
Pan European Conference |
|
PED |
Personal Electronic Devices |
|
PED |
Primary Engine Display |
|
PED |
Passenger Electronic Devices |
|
PEL/TRG |
Personnel Licensing and Training |
|
PELA |
Proficiency test in English Language for ATCOs |
|
PEM |
Phone Emergency Module |
|
PENS |
Pan-European Fixed Network Service |
|
PER SE |
By Itself |
|
PERDIEM |
By the Day |
|
PERF |
Performance |
|
PES |
Proposed Eurocontrol Standard Document |
|
PETAL |
Preliminary Eurocontrol Test of Air/Ground Data Link |
|
PEX |
PHIGS Extended X-Windows System |
|
PF |
Pilot Flying |
|
PFA |
Probability of False Alarm |
|
PFA |
Pilot Friendly Airport |
|
PFAST |
Passive Final Approach Spacing Tool |
|
PFCS |
Primary flight computer system |
|
PFD |
Primary Flight Display |
|
PFD |
Planned Flight Data |
|
PFE |
Path Following Error |
|
PFI |
Private Finance Initiative |
|
PFL |
Planned Flight Level |
|
PFLext |
Probability of Failure Localisation, external |
|
PFLint |
Probability of Fault Localisation, internal |
|
PFM |
Pre-Flight Messages |
|
PFN |
Pulse-Forming-Network |
|
PFR |
Probability of Failure Repair |
|
PgMM |
Program Management Methodology |
|
PGMP |
Pilot Group on ATCO Manpower Planning |
|
Pgp |
Planning Grant Program |
|
PGS |
Personnel General Services Team |
|
PHA |
Preliminary Hazard Analysis |
|
PHARE |
Program for Harmonized ATC Research in Europe |
|
PHIBUF |
Performance Buffet Limit |
|
PHINOM |
Nominal Bank Angle |
|
PHL |
Preliminary Hazard List |
|
PHPD |
Per Hatch Per Day |
|
PIAC |
Peak Instantaneous Aircraft Count |
|
PIC |
Pilot In Command |
|
PIC |
Principal Interexchange Carrier |
|
PID |
Pilot Information Downlink |
|
PIDP |
Programmable Indicator Data Processor |
|
PII |
Personally Identifiable Information |
|
PIM |
Program Implementation Manager |
|
PIM |
Programme Implementation Management |
|
PIREP |
Pilot Report |
|
PIREP |
Pilot (weather) Report |
|
PIREPS |
electronic pilot reports |
|
PIRG |
Planning and Implementation Regional Groups |
|
PIs |
Performance Indicators |
|
PjMM |
Project Management Methodology |
|
PjSA |
Project Scope Agreement |
|
PKI |
Public Key Infrastructure (cryptography) |
|
PLC |
Planning Controller |
|
PM |
Preventive Maintenance |
|
PMA |
Parts Manufacturer Approval |
|
PMC |
Project Materials Cumulative |
|
PMC |
Project Management Cell |
|
PML |
Project Material List |
|
PMP |
Project Management Plan |
|
PMS |
Program Management System |
|
PMS |
Pavement Management System |
|
PMS |
Performance Management System |
|
PND |
Primary Navigation Display (aviation) |
|
PNF |
Pilot Not Flying (aviation) |
|
PNGAPA |
Papua New Guinea Air Pilots Association |
|
POC |
Point-of-Contact |
|
POCC |
Pacific Operations Control Center |
|
POH |
Pilot Operating Handbook |
|
POL STAT |
Policy Statement |
|
POLALPA |
Stowarzyszenie Polskich Pilotow Komunikacyjnych |
|
POP |
Point-0f-Presence |
|
POS |
Position |
|
POS INIT |
Position Initialization |
|
POS REF |
Position Reference |
|
POT |
Point-of-Termination |
|
PPD |
Plans and Policy Division |
|
PPE |
Personal Protective Equipment |
|
PPI |
Plan Position Indicator |
|
Ppims |
Personal Property Information Management System |
|
PPL |
Private Pilot License |
|
PPO |
Prior Permission Only |
|
PPOS |
Present Position |
|
PPR |
Prior Permission Required |
|
PPR |
Personal Property Report |
|
PQM |
Project Quality Manager |
|
PQP |
Project Quality Plan |
|
PRC |
Performance Review Commission |
|
PRC |
EEC business area - support to performance review |
|
Pre-OJT |
Pre-On-the-Job Training |
|
PREV |
Previous |
|
PRF |
Pulse Repetition Frequency |
|
PRFG |
Aerodrome Partially covered by Fog |
|
PRI |
Primary Rate Interface (ISDN) |
|
PRICE |
Proficiency Requirements in Common English Study Group |
|
PRIF |
PROC Interface Tool |
|
Prkg |
Parking |
|
PRL |
Pilot Request, Level |
|
PRM |
Precision Runway Monitor |
|
PRN |
Pseudo-Random Noise |
|
PRN Code |
Pseudo Random Noise Code |
|
prob |
probability |
|
PROC |
Procedure |
|
PRODAT |
PROSAT Data Link Experiment |
|
PROF |
Profile |
|
PROFI |
Multinational Project Financing |
|
PROG |
Progress Page on MCDU |
|
PROM |
Programmable Read Only Memory (chip) |
|
PROMET |
Provision of Meteorological Information |
|
PROP |
Propellor |
|
PRORES |
Problem Resolution |
|
PROSAT |
Program Satellite |
|
PROSIT |
Problem Situation |
|
PROV |
Provisional |
|
PRP |
Pulse Repetition Period |
|
PRQ |
Pilot Request |
|
PRR |
Pilot Request, Route |
|
PRU |
Performance Review Unit |
|
PS |
Pacific Southwest Airways |
|
PSC |
Program Support Center (US DHHS) |
|
PSD |
Process Support Document |
|
PSDN |
Public Switched Data Network |
|
PSL |
Projected Service Life |
|
PSN |
Packet Switched Network |
|
PSR |
Project Status Report |
|
PSS |
Packet Switched Service |
|
PSTN |
Public Switched Telephone Network |
|
PT |
Product Team |
|
PT |
Total Pressure |
|
PTC |
Presumed-to-Conform |
|
PTH |
Path |
|
PTOT |
Provisional Take-Off Time |
|
PTR |
Program Technical Report |
|
PTS |
Procedures Tracking System |
|
Ptt |
Press to Talk |
|
PTUK |
Pilots Trade Union Kazakhstan |
|
PTUL |
Pilots Trade Union of Latvia |
|
PUP |
Principal User Processor (NEXRAD) |
|
PVC |
Permanent Virtual Circuit (ATM) |
|
PVD |
Plan View Display |
|
PWI |
Proximity Warning Indicator |
|
PZ |
Portotroz |
|
PZ 90 |
Parameters of Earth 1990 |
|
P… |
Prohibited Area |
|
Q PROCEDURE |
Procedure to identify replacement flight plans |
|
Q&A |
Question & Answer |
|
Q.23 |
Signalling system for PABX |
|
QAE |
Quality Assurance Evaluator |
|
QAR |
Quality Assurance Resources |
|
QAR |
Quick Access Recorder |
|
QBI |
Compulsory IFR flight |
|
QC |
Quality Control |
|
QCM |
Quality Control Manager |
|
QDM |
Magnetic Heading |
|
QDM |
Magnetic zero wind heading |
|
QDR |
Reciprocal Magnetic Bearing |
|
QF |
Quality Factor |
|
QFA |
Qantas |
|
QFU |
Magnetic orientation or runway in use |
|
QHN |
Altimeter Sub-scale setting |
|
QMS |
Quality Management System |
|
QNE |
Altimeter subscale set to 1013,2 hectopascals |
|
QNH |
Quantity |
|
QoS |
Quality of Service |
|
QP |
Quality Plan |
|
QPSK |
aeronautical quadrature phase shift keying |
|
QRA |
Who Are You |
|
QRH |
The barometric pressure as reported by a particular station |
|
QRPS |
Route Points Store |
|
QSIG |
Signalling to a Q Reference Network |
|
QTE |
True Bearing |
|
QTG |
Qualification Test Guide |
|
QTY |
Quantity |
|
Quad |
Quadrant |
|
QuestionAIR |
Computer-based ATM questions bank |
|
QUIS |
Questionnaire for User Interface Satisfaction |
|
R |
Right |
|
R B |
Range and Bearing line |
|
R&D |
Research & Development |
|
R,E&D |
Research, Engineering and Development |
|
R-ATSU |
The Receiving Air Traffic Services Unit |
|
R-Channel |
Random Access Channel |
|
R/C |
Rate of Climb |
|
R/T |
Radio Telephonic Transmission |
|
R1 |
Minor Repairs |
|
RA |
Resolution Advisory |
|
RAA |
Regional Airline Association |
|
RAARR |
Radar Arrival |
|
RAAS |
Runway Aural Awareness System |
|
RAC |
RUHR Assistant Controller |
|
RAC |
Rules of the Air and Air Traffic Services |
|
RAD |
Radio |
|
RAD |
Radial |
|
RAES |
Royal Aeronautical Society |
|
RAIL |
Runway Alignment Indicator Lights |
|
RAIM |
Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring |
|
RAN |
Regional Air Navigation |
|
RAPCO |
Radar Approach Control |
|
RAPNET |
Regional Aeronautical Packet |
|
RAPNET |
Regional ATC Packet switched Network |
|
RAPPI |
Radar Access Plan Position |
|
RAPPI |
Random Access Plan-Position Indicator |
|
RAPS |
Recovery Access Presentation System |
|
RASCAL |
Rotorcraft Air Crew Systems Concepts Airborne Laboratory |
|
RASP |
Regional Airport System Plan |
|
RASP |
Radar Application Specialist Panel |
|
rat |
Risk Assessment Team |
|
RATCC |
Radar Air Traffic Control Center |
|
RATCF |
Radar Air Traffic Control Facility |
|
RBC |
Rotating Beam Ceilometer |
|
RBDPE |
Radar Beacon Data Processing Equipment |
|
RBI |
Relative Bearing Selector |
|
RBP |
Radar Bypass Processor |
|
RBPM |
Remote Beacon Performance Monitor |
|
RBS |
Radio Backup System |
|
Rbss |
Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron |
|
RC |
Radar Controller |
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RCAG |
Remote Communications Air/Ground |
|
RCAG |
Remote Communication Air/Ground Facility |
|
RCAS |
Radio Coverage Analysis System |
|
RCAT |
Route Catalogue |
|
RCC |
Rescue Co-ordination Centre |
|
RCCC |
Regional Communications Control Center |
|
RCD |
DCL Request Message |
|
RCDS |
Radio Channel Distribution and Switching |
|
RCDSS |
Radar Control and Display Subsystem |
|
RCE |
Radio Control Equipment |
|
RCF |
Remote Communications Facility |
|
RCF |
Radio Communications Failure |
|
RCH |
Reach |
|
RCHG |
Repetitive Flight Plan Modification Message |
|
RCIU |
Remote Control Interface Unit |
|
RCL |
Radio Communications Link |
|
RCL |
Runway Centreline Lighting |
|
RCLL |
Runway Centre Line Lights |
|
RCLR |
Recleared |
|
RCLS |
Runway Centerline Lighting System |
|
RCLT |
RCL Terminal |
|
RCM |
Requirements Correlation Matrix |
|
RCO |
Remote Communications Outlet |
|
RCP |
Radio Control Panel |
|
RCR |
Runway Condition Reading |
|
RCRT |
Refresh Cycle Response Time |
|
RCU |
Remote Control Unit |
|
RD |
Requirements Document |
|
RD-Channel |
Random Data Channel |
|
RDC |
Routing Domain Confederation |
|
RDDII |
Radio Digital Distance Magnetic Indicator |
|
RDF |
Radio Direction Finder |
|
RDG |
Radar Data Generator |
|
RDIF |
Radar Data Interchange Format |
|
Rdl |
Radial |
|
RDM |
Running Display Message |
|
RDP |
Radar Data Processor |
|
RDP |
Radar Data Processing |
|
RDPP |
Radar Data Post Processor |
|
RDPS |
Radar Data Processing System |
|
RDQC |
Radar Data Quality Control |
|
RDR |
Radar Departure Route |
|
RDSIM |
Runway Delay Simulation Model |
|
RDSS |
Radar Determination Satellite System |
|
RDTE |
Research Development Trials and Evaluation |
|
RDVS |
Rapid Deployment Voice Switch |
|
RE |
Resident Engineer |
|
REA |
Ready Message |
|
REACT |
Rain Echo Attenuation Compensation Technique |
|
Real |
Real time |
|
RecDPS |
Recording Data Processing System |
|
REDAC |
Research, Engineering and Development Advisory Committee |
|
REDMACS |
Research, Engineering, and Development Monitoring, Analysis and Control System |
|
REG |
Regulatory |
|
REGIS |
Regional Information System |
|
REIL |
Runway End Identification Light |
|
REL |
Runway Entrance Light |
|
REQ |
Request |
|
RESA |
Runway End Safety Area |
|
RESMA |
Requirements for Emergency and Safety Airborne Equipment |
|
RESTR |
Restriction |
|
RESYNCING |
Resynchronizing |
|
RET |
Airborne & Ground Retrofit |
|
RF |
Radio Frequency |
|
RFC |
Request For Change |
|
RFF |
Rescue and Fire Fighting |
|
RFL |
Requested Flight Level |
|
RFQ |
Request For Quote |
|
RGCSP |
Review of General Concept of Separation Panel |
|
RGS |
Remote Ground Station |
|
RI |
Route Intercept |
|
RIB |
Routing Information Base |
|
RIC |
Radar Integration Control |
|
RICE |
RTF Interface Control Equipment |
|
RID |
review item description |
|
RIG |
Regional Implementation Group |
|
RIIEP |
Runway Incursion Information Evaluation Program |
|
RIMS |
Runway Incursion Monitoring System |
|
RINAL |
Portuguese Data Network |
|
RIP |
Runway Incursion Program |
|
RIRT |
Russian Institute of Radio Navigation and Time |
|
RIS |
Relational Interface System |
|
RISC |
Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
|
RISE |
Retrieval and Interchange of Standards in Europe |
|
RIT |
RADNET Implementation and Integration Team |
|
RITA |
Replay Interface for TCAS Alerts |
|
RJ |
Roal Jordanian |
|
RJT |
Rerouteing Rejection Message |
|
RLA |
Relay to |
|
RLB |
Rolling Ball |
|
RLBCS |
Rolling Ball CallSign |
|
RLCE |
Request Level Change En-route |
|
RLD |
Rijks Luchtvaart Dienst |
|
RLG |
Ring Laser Giro |
|
RLIM |
Radar Data Line Interface Module |
|
RLLS |
Runway Lead-In Light System |
|
RLMS |
Replacement Lamp Monitoring System |
|
RLNA |
Requested Level Not Available |
|
RLP |
Remote Line Printer |
|
RLSD |
Released |
|
RLSM |
Reduced Lateral Separation Minimum |
|
RLST |
Revised List |
|
RM |
Risk Management |
|
RMA |
RELIABILITY MAINTAINABILITY AVAILABILITY |
|
RMCC |
Remote Monitor Control Center |
|
RMCD |
Remote Master Control Desk |
|
RMCDE |
Radar Message Conversion and Distribution Equipment |
|
RMCF |
Remote Monitor Control Facility |
|
RMCS |
Remote Monitoring and Control System |
|
RMI |
Radio Magnetic Indicator |
|
RMK |
Remark |
|
RML |
Radar Microwave Link |
|
RMLR |
RML Repeater |
|
RMLS |
Remote Monitoring and Logging System |
|
RMLT |
RML Terminal |
|
RMM |
Remote Maintenance Monitoring |
|
RMMC |
Remote Maintenance Monitoring and Control |
|
RMNDR |
Reminder |
|
RMP |
Radio Management Panel |
|
RMPs |
Radio Management Panels |
|
rms |
root mean square (preferred over "RMS") |
|
RMS Error |
Root Mean Square error. |
|
RMSC |
Remote Monitoring Subsystem Concentrator |
|
RMSpv |
RMS peak value. |
|
RMU |
Radio Management Unit |
|
RNAV |
Workstations, Intelligent tools, and Networks |
|
RNAV |
Random Navigation Area Navigation |
|
RNC |
Required Navigation Capability |
|
RNDSG |
Route Network Development Sub-Group |
|
RNDSG |
Route Network and Development Sub-Group |
|
RNG |
Range |
|
RNLAF |
Royal Netherlands Air Force (also KLu) |
|
RNMP |
Replacement of the Nautical Mile Panel |
|
RNP |
Required Navigation Performance |
|
RNP-10 |
Required Navigation Performance |
|
RNP5 |
Required Navigation Performance 5 |
|
RNPTF |
Required Navigation Performance Task Force |
|
RO-ALPU |
Romanian Air Line Pilot's Union |
|
ROA |
Record of Assistance |
|
ROC |
Regional Operations Center (NATO) |
|
ROD |
Record Of Decision |
|
ROM |
Read-Only Memory |
|
ROSA |
REPORT OF SERVICE ACTIVITY |
|
ROSHM |
Regional Occupational Safety and Health Manager |
|
ROT |
Runway Occupancy Time |
|
RP |
Restoration Priority |
|
RPC |
Restoration Priority Code |
|
RPF |
Rapid Prototyping Facility |
|
RPG |
Regional Planning Group |
|
RPG |
Radar Processing Group |
|
RPI |
Real Property Inventory |
|
RPL |
Repetitive Flight Plan |
|
RPMES |
Regional Program Manager for Environment and Safety |
|
RPOC |
Risk Point-of-Contact |
|
RPP |
Radiation Protection Program |
|
RPR |
Real Property Report |
|
RPR |
Re-Routing Proposal Message |
|
RPV |
Remotely Piloted Vehicle |
|
RPZ |
Runway Protection Zone |
|
RRCS |
Remote Radio Control System |
|
RRH |
Remote Reading Hygrothermometer |
|
Rrhs |
Remote Reading Hydrometer |
|
RRWDS |
Remote Radar Weather Display |
|
RRWSS |
RWDS Sensor Site |
|
RS |
Reference Station |
|
RSA |
Radar Service Area |
|
RSA |
Runway Safety Area |
|
RSAP |
Runway Safety Action Plan |
|
RSAT |
Runway Safety Action Team |
|
RSC |
Rescue Sub Centre |
|
RSC |
Runway Service Conditions |
|
RSCD |
Runway Surface Condition |
|
RSI |
Radiation Status Indicator |
|
RSL |
Runway Status Light |
|
RSLS |
Receiver Side Lobe Suppression |
|
RSM |
Radar Service Message |
|
RSMTF |
Radar Separation Minimum Task Force |
|
RSO |
Route per State Overflown |
|
RSOQ |
Radar Stores Occupancy Query |
|
RSPD |
Reported Speed |
|
RSPL |
Recommended Spare Parts List |
|
RSR |
en-Route Surveillance Radar |
|
RSS |
Remote Speaking System |
|
RSSP |
Radar Systems Specialist Panel |
|
Rstd |
Restricted |
|
RSURTF |
RASS-S Upper Requirements TF |
|
RSUS |
RPL Suspension Message |
|
RSVN |
Reservation |
|
RSYD |
Release Subject to Your Discretion |
|
RT |
Remote Transmitter |
|
RT&BTL |
Radar Tracking and Beacon Tracking Level |
|
RTA |
Required Time of Arrival |
|
RTAD |
Remote Tower Alphanumeric Display |
|
RTB |
Radar Tool Box |
|
RTC |
Radio Transmission Control |
|
RTCA |
Radio Technical Committee on Aeronautics |
|
RTCA |
Requirements and Technical Concepts for Aeronautics |
|
RTCA |
Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics |
|
RTCM SC |
Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services Special Committee |
|
RTD |
Research and Development of Technologies |
|
RTD |
Research and Technical Development |
|
RTDS |
Radar Terminal Display System |
|
RTE |
Route |
|
RTF |
Radio Telephony |
|
RTF |
Radiotelephony |
|
RTFM |
Regulated Tactical Flight Model |
|
RTG |
Radio Telegraphy |
|
RTHL |
Runway Treshold Light |
|
RTI |
D-RVR Delivery Messge |
|
RTIS |
Road Travel Information Services |
|
RTLS |
Return To Launch Site |
|
RTO |
Rejected Take-Off |
|
RTOS |
Real-Time Operating System |
|
RTP |
Regional Transportation Plan |
|
RTPTS |
RouTe PoinTS |
|
RTQC |
Real Time Quality Control |
|
RTQC/A |
Real Time Quality Control / Assessment |
|
RTRD |
Remote Tower Radar Display |
|
RTS |
Return To Service |
|
RTSE |
Reliable Transfer Service Element |
|
RTSIM |
Real-Time Simulation |
|
RTT |
D-RVR Termination Message |
|
RUC |
Rapid Update Cycle |
|
RVM |
Radar Video Map |
|
RVR |
Runway Visual Range |
|
RVSM |
Reduced Vertical Separation Minima |
|
RW |
Runway |
|
RWP |
Real-Time Weather Processor |
|
RWSL |
Runway Status Lights |
|
RWY |
Runway |
|
RX |
Receiver |
|
S |
South |
|
S-SUP |
Sector Supervisor |
|
S/C |
Step Climb |
|
S/S |
Sector Suite |
|
SA |
Situation Awareness |
|
SA |
System Administrator |
|
SAAFEA |
South African Airways Flight Engineers Association |
|
SAAM |
System for Assignment and Analysis at a Macroscopic level |
|
SAC |
Strategic Air Command |
|
SACAA |
Southern African Civil Aviation Authority |
|
SAE |
Society of Automotive Engineers |
|
SAFI |
Semi-Automatic Flight Inspection |
|
SAGA |
System Safety Approach for General Aviation |
|
SAGSTRAM |
Standing Advisory Group on the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material |
|
SAI |
Safety Attribute Inspection |
|
SALPA |
Sudan Air Line Pilots Association |
|
SALS |
Short Approach Lighting System |
|
sams |
special-use airspace management system |
|
SAMTF |
Safety Assessment Methodology Task Force |
|
SAN |
Storage Area Network |
|
SANe |
Skill Acquisition Network |
|
SAPA |
Swazi Air Line Pilots Association |
|
SAPPHIRE |
Satellite and Aircraft Database Programme |
|
SAPS |
Staffing and Personnel System |
|
SAR |
Search And Rescue |
|
SARP |
Signal Automatic Radar Processing |
|
SARP |
Standards And Recommended Practices |
|
SARPS |
Standards and Recommended Practices |
|
SARSAT |
Search and Rescue Satellite |
|
SAS |
Scandinavian Airlines System |
|
SAS |
Scandinavian Airline Systems |
|
SAS |
Safety Assurance System |
|
SASKI |
Name of an ATS Route reporting point |
|
SASO |
System Approach for Safety Oversight |
|
SASP |
ICAO Separation and Airspace Safety Panel |
|
SASS-C |
Surveillance Analysis Support System - Centre |
|
SASS-S |
Surveillance Analysis Support System - Sensor |
|
SAT |
Static Air Temperature |
|
SATCAS |
Selenia Air Traffic Control Automated System |
|
SATCNS WG |
Satellite CNS Work Group |
|
SATCO |
Signal Automatic Control |
|
satcom |
Satellite Communication |
|
SATS |
Simulator System for Air Traffic Services |
|
SATSA |
Swedish ATS Academy |
|
SATSAR |
Satellite-aided Search And Rescue |
|
SAVES |
Strategic Sourcing for the Acquisition of Various Equipment and Supplies |
|
SAW |
Surface Acoustic Wave |
|
sbas |
Space Based Augmentation System |
|
SBGP |
State Block Grant Program |
|
SBIR |
Small Business Innovative Research |
|
SBIR |
Small Business Innovation Research |
|
SBS |
Surveillance Broadcast Services |
|
SBSR |
Space Based Secondary Radar |
|
SBT |
Scenario-Based Training |
|
Sbt |
Self-Briefing Terminal |
|
SBU |
Service Business Unit |
|
SC |
Steering Committee |
|
SCA |
Serbian Cockpit Association |
|
SCAA |
Swedish Civil Aviation Administration |
|
SCAA |
Slovenian CAA |
|
SCADA |
Supervisory Control And Data Aquisition |
|
SCAN |
Swiss Data Network |
|
SCAP |
System Certification and Accreditation Package |
|
SCAT |
Supersonic Civil Air Transport |
|
SCAT |
Staffing and Cost Analysis Tool |
|
SCAT-1 |
Special Category One |
|
SCAT-1 |
Special Category 1 |
|
SCAT-1 Approach |
Special Category 1 Approach |
|
SCATCC |
Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre |
|
SCC |
Satellite Control Centre |
|
SCC |
System Command Center |
|
SCDT |
Selected Controlled Departure Times |
|
SCP |
Spacecraft Control Processors |
|
SCT |
Southern California Area TRACON |
|
SCVTS |
Switched Compressed Video Telecommunications Service |
|
Sdis |
Switched Digital Integrated Service |
|
SDLC |
Software development life cycle |
|
SDP |
Service Delivery Point |
|
SDR |
Service Difficulty Report |
|
SDS |
Switched Data Service |
|
SDS |
Sub Domain Server |
|
SEA/TAC |
Seattle/Tacoma International Airport |
|
seac |
Service d'Etat de l'Aviation Civile |
|
SEC |
Strategic Event Coordination |
|
SEC |
IFALPA Security Committee |
|
SECM |
Safety and Environmental Compliance Manager |
|
SECRA |
Secondary Radar Data Only |
|
SEIFR |
Single-Engine Instrument Flight Rules |
|
SEL |
Selected Environmental Library |
|
Sel |
Selected Equipment List |
|
SEL |
Single Event Level |
|
SEL |
Selcal code |
|
SELF |
Simplified Short Approach Lighting System With Sequenced Flashing Lights |
|
SELREL |
Selective Release |
|
SEM |
Semmerzake |
|
SEMP |
Software Engineering Management Plan |
|
SEOAT |
Systems Engineering Operational Analysis Team |
|
SEOTV |
Sindicato Espanol de Oficiales Tecnicos de Vuelo |
|
sep |
Safety Equipment and Procedures |
|
SEP |
September |
|
SEPLA |
Sindicato Espanol de Pilotos de Lineas Aereas |
|
SEQ |
Sequence |
|
SERC |
Software Engineering Resource Center |
|
SES |
Supplementary Equipment and Services |
|
SES |
Single European Sky |
|
SESAR |
Single European Sky ATM Research |
|
SESMA |
Special Event Search and Master Analysis |
|
SESMA |
Special Event Trend Analysis |
|
SESY |
Service Systems Section |
|
SET |
Spacing Efficiency Tool |
|
SET |
Singe Engine Turbo-Prop |
|
SETA |
Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance |
|
SETP |
Society of Experimental Test Pilots |
|
SEU |
Software Engineering Unit |
|
SF |
Special Freighter |
|
SFAR |
Special Federal Aviation Regulation |
|
SFAR-38 |
Special Federal Aviation Regulation 38 |
|
SFD |
Start Frame Delimiter |
|
SFD |
Service Flow Diagram |
|
SFLA |
Assign SFL |
|
SFMC |
Sickness Fund Management Committee |
|
SFOR |
UN Stabilisation Force (in Bosnia And Herzegovina) |
|
SFPL |
Short Flight Plan |
|
SFPL |
System Flight Plan Processing |
|
SFT |
Simplified Fast Time Simulations |
|
SGAMI |
Select Group for Assessing Manpower Issues |
|
sGC |
Swept Gain Control |
|
Sgcas |
Study Group on Certification of Automatic Systems |
|
SGI |
Silicon Graphics Incorporated |
|
SGL |
Signal |
|
SGS 85 |
Sovietic Geodetic System |
|
SGTOAA |
Study Group on Take-off Accountability Areas |
|
SH |
Showers |
|
SHACC |
SHAPE Airspace Coordination Centre |
|
SHANDAP |
Shannon Data Processing |
|
SHAPE |
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (NATO) |
|
SHEL |
Software, Hardware, Environment, Liveware |
|
SHF |
Super High Frequency |
|
SHL |
Saville and Holdsworth Ltd |
|
SHORAN |
Short Range Navigation |
|
SIAP |
Standard Instrument Flight Procedure |
|
SIC |
Service Initiation Charge |
|
SICASP |
Secondary Surveillance Radar Improvements |
|
SICASP |
SSR Improvements and Collision Avoidance Systems Panel |
|
SICT |
System Implementation Coordination Team |
|
SICTA |
Italian Consortium for the Applied ATM Research |
|
SID |
Standard Instrument Departure |
|
SIE |
Standard Interface Equipment |
|
SIGMET |
Significant Meteorological Information |
|
SIMMOD |
Airspace and Airport Simulation Model |
|
SIP |
State Implementation Plan |
|
SIPAC |
Sindicato Panameno de Aviadores Comerciales |
|
SIPACIP |
Sindicato de Pilotos Aviadores Civiles del Paraguay |
|
SIR |
Screening Information Request |
|
SISG |
Safety Indicators Study Group |
|
SITA |
Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques |
|
SITA |
Société Internationale Télécommunique Aéronautique |
|
SITNA |
Service Technique de la Navigation Aérienne |
|
SLEP |
Service Life Extension Program |
|
SLOP |
Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure |
|
SLOVALPA |
Slovak Air Line Pilots Association |
|
SM |
Statute Mile |
|
SMAW |
Safe Minimum Altitude Warning |
|
smc |
Surface Movement Control |
|
SMD |
Storage Module Device |
|
SME |
Subject Major Expert |
|
SMEQ |
Subjective Mental Effort Questionnaire |
|
SMF |
Systems Management Facility |
|
SMGC |
Surface Movement Guidance and Control |
|
SMHI |
Swedish government owned MET Institute |
|
SMI |
Special Message Identifier |
|
SMITF |
Safety Monitoring and Improvement Task Force |
|
SMMC |
System Maintenance Monitor Console |
|
Smps |
Sector Maintenance Processor Subsystem |
|
SMR |
Surface Movement Radar Study Group |
|
SMR |
Surface Movement Radar |
|
SMS |
Safety Management Systems |
|
SMT |
station management (protocol) |
|
SMT |
Schedule Management Toolset |
|
SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
|
SMX |
Sub-Multiplexer |
|
SN |
Brussels Airlines |
|
SNA |
Sindicato Nacional dos Aeronautas |
|
SNAcF |
Subnetwork Access Function |
|
Snacp |
Subnetwork Access Protocol |
|
SNBNK |
Snowbank Caused by Plowing |
|
SNDC |
Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Function |
|
SNDCF |
Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Facility |
|
SNET |
Safety Nets |
|
SNGL |
Single |
|
SNICF |
Subnetwork Independent Convergence Function |
|
SNIR |
Signal-to-noise ratio |
|
SNME |
Subnetwork Management Entity |
|
SNOMAC |
Syndicat National des Officiers Mecaniciens de l'Aviation Civile |
|
SNPA |
Subnetwork Point of Attachment |
|
SNPL |
Syndicat National des Pilotes de Ligne |
|
SNR |
Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
|
snr |
Signal-to-Noise |
|
SO |
Southern Airways |
|
SOAR |
System of Airports Reporting |
|
soc |
Start of Climb |
|
SOF |
Stand-alone Operations Facility |
|
SOGITS |
Senior Official Group in IT Standardisation |
|
SOIR |
Simultaneous Operations on Intersecting Runways |
|
SOIWR |
Simultaneous Operations on Intersecting Wet Runways |
|
SOL |
Sector Outbound List |
|
SOP |
Standard Operational Procedure |
|
SOP |
Standard Operating Practice |
|
SOPA |
Standard Operating Procedure Amplified |
|
SOR |
State Of Readiness |
|
SOW |
Statement Of Work |
|
SP |
Surveillance Processing |
|
SP |
Space |
|
SPA |
Suriname Pilots Association |
|
SPACDAR |
Specialist Panel on Automatic Conflict Detection and Resolution |
|
SPAS |
Safety Performance Analysis System |
|
SPAS |
System Performance Analysis System |
|
SPD |
Speed Mode |
|
SPF |
Svensk Pilot Forening |
|
Spifr |
Single Pilot Ifr |
|
SPLA |
Syndicat des Pilotes de Ligna Algeriens |
|
SPNT |
Syndicat Personnel Navigant Technique de Tunisia |
|
SPS |
Sensor Processing Subsystem |
|
SQL |
Structured Query Language |
|
SR&O |
System Requirements and Objectives |
|
SRAP |
sensor receiver and processor |
|
SRC |
Safety Regulation Commission |
|
SRG |
Safety Regulation Group |
|
SRM |
Slot Revision Message |
|
SRMDM |
Safety Risk Management Memo |
|
SRP |
Selected Reference Point |
|
SRQ |
Slot Request |
|
SRS |
Shuttle Reservation System |
|
SRSG |
Safety Regulation Sub-Group |
|
SRTM |
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission |
|
Srv |
Server |
|
SRZ |
Special Rules Zone |
|
SS |
Sunset |
|
SS 30 |
30 Minutes after Sunset |
|
SSA |
System Safety Approach |
|
Ssalf |
Ssals with Sequenced Flashers |
|
SSALS |
Simplified Short Approach Lighting Systerm |
|
SSAP |
Source Service Access Point |
|
SSAP Selector |
Session Service Selector |
|
SSB |
Single Side Band |
|
SSD |
Synthetic Situation Display |
|
SSD |
System Support Directive |
|
SSDD |
Sub System Design Document |
|
SSDG |
Surveillance Strategy Drafting Group |
|
SSE |
Servicing Security Element |
|
SSEC |
Static Source Error Correction |
|
SSFDR |
Solid-State Flight Data Recorder |
|
SSGS |
Surveillance Sub-Group on Standards |
|
SSGT |
Surveillance Sub-Group on Tools |
|
SSM |
Sign Status Matrix |
|
SSM |
System Support Modification |
|
SSO |
STAR Support Office |
|
sspa |
Solid State Phased Array |
|
SSR |
Solid State Relay |
|
SSR |
Software Specification Review |
|
SSR |
secondary surveillance radar (ICAO/FAA) |
|
SSR Mode S |
Selective Address SSR |
|
SSR Mode S WG |
Secondary Surveillance Radar Mode Selective WG |
|
SSRBRIGH |
Highlight set code to target |
|
SSRC |
Current SSR Code |
|
SSRWG |
Systems Safety Risk Working Group |
|
sss |
System Specification |
|
SST |
System Shakedown Testing |
|
SSTS |
Space Surveillance and Tracking System |
|
SSW |
South-South-West |
|
st&e |
Security Test and Evaluations |
|
STA |
Scheduled Time of Arrival |
|
STAB |
Stabilizer |
|
STAC |
Second Time Around Clutter |
|
STANAG |
(NATO) Standardisation Agreement |
|
STANINE |
Standard Nine Score |
|
STANLY |
Statistics and Analysis |
|
stap |
Statistics Panel |
|
STAR |
Standard Terminal Arrival Route |
|
STAR |
StandardTerminal Arrival Route |
|
STCA |
Short Term Conflict Alert |
|
stdma |
Self-organising Time Division Multiple Access |
|
STEPCLB |
StepClimb |
|
STOL |
Short Takeoff And Landing |
|
StS |
Support to States |
|
STT |
Studies, Tests and Trials |
|
STTR |
Small Business Technology Transfer |
|
STU |
Selected Trajectory Update |
|
STUD |
Innovative studies |
|
STVAC |
Sindicato dos Tecnicos de Voo da Aviacao Civil |
|
STWL |
Stopway Lights |
|
SU |
Aeroflot Russian Airlines |
|
SUA |
Special-Use Airspace |
|
SUATMS |
Single Unified ATM System |
|
SUBJ |
Subject |
|
SUC |
Start-Up Controller |
|
SUDP |
Surveillance data Processing |
|
SUMI |
Software Usability Measurement Inventory |
|
Sup |
Supplement |
|
SUP |
Supervisor |
|
Sup. Pract. |
Supervised Practices |
|
SUP/ACC |
Supervisor Area Control Centre |
|
SUP/APP |
Supervisor Approach |
|
SUP/MIL |
Supervisor military |
|
SUPSIS |
Supervisor |
|
SUR |
Surveillance |
|
SurvITE |
Surveillance Integrated Tested for EATMS |
|
SV |
Space Vehicle |
|
SVC |
Service |
|
Svcbl |
Serviceable |
|
SVFR |
Special VFR |
|
SVID |
System V Interface Definition |
|
SVN |
Satellite Vehicle Number |
|
SVP |
Supervisor |
|
SVRWX |
Severe Weather |
|
SVS |
Synthetic vision system |
|
SVVP |
Software Verification and Validation Plan |
|
SW |
Shrapnel (Shell) |
|
SWAP |
Severe Weather Avoidance Program |
|
SWET |
Swedish NEAN Project Team |
|
SWIM |
System Wide Information Management |
|
Swissalpa |
Swiss Air Line Pilots Association |
|
T |
Time |
|
T-ATSU |
Transferring ATS Unit |
|
T-Channel |
Time Division Multiple-Access Channel |
|
T-VASIS T |
Visual Approach Slope Indicator System |
|
T/C |
Top-of-Climb |
|
T/D |
Top of-Descent |
|
T/O |
Takeoff |
|
TA |
Traffic Advisory |
|
TAAATS |
The Australian Advanced Air Traffic Services System |
|
TACH |
Tachometer |
|
TAI |
Thermal Anti-lce |
|
TALPA |
Turk Hava Yallair Pilotlari Dernegi |
|
TAP |
Terminal Area Productivity |
|
tar |
Terminal Area Radar |
|
TARA |
Terminal Area RNAV Applications Task Force |
|
TARA |
Terminal Area R-NAV Applications Sub-Group |
|
TARAD |
Tracking Asynchronous Radar Data |
|
TARE |
Telegraphic Automatic Relay Equipment |
|
TARMAC |
Taxi and Ramp Management and Control |
|
TAS |
True Airspeed |
|
TASC |
The Analytical Science Corporation |
|
TAT |
Total AirTemperature |
|
TATCA |
Terminal Air Traffic Control Automaiton |
|
TATCA |
Terminal ATC Automation |
|
TATCI |
Tallinn ATC Improvement project |
|
Tau |
Range / Range rate |
|
TAWS |
terrain awareness and warning system |
|
Tax |
Taxiway Lights |
|
TB |
Tellback |
|
TBA |
To Be Advised |
|
TBC |
The Boeing Company |
|
TBD |
To Be Determined |
|
Tbn |
To Be Notified |
|
TBO |
Time Between Overhaul |
|
TBS |
To Be Supplied(by government) |
|
TBS |
Telephone Back-up System |
|
TC |
Transit Corridor |
|
TC-APD |
Tactical Controller Activity Predictor Display |
|
TC/OC |
Technical Control and Operational Control |
|
TCA |
Terminal Conflict Alert |
|
TCA |
Terminal Control Area |
|
TCAA |
Transatlantic Common Aviation Area |
|
TCAS |
Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System |
|
TCAS |
Traffic Collision Avoidance System |
|
TCB |
Training Co-ordination Board |
|
TCDP |
Technical Control Data Processor |
|
TCL |
Terminal Control Language |
|
TCOP |
Transfer Coordination Point |
|
TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
|
TCP / IP |
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol |
|
TCPU |
Touch Panel Central Processing Unit |
|
TCT |
Technical Control Terminal |
|
TCU |
Towering Cumulus |
|
TCWP |
Threshold Crossing Way-point |
|
TDA |
Track Detection Analysis |
|
TDB |
Track Data Block |
|
TDCE |
Telephone Distribution and Control Equipment |
|
TDCP |
Test Display and Control Panel |
|
TDD |
Time Division Duplex |
|
TDH |
Training Development and Harmonisation |
|
TDI |
Track Deviation Instrument |
|
TDM |
Track Definition Message |
|
TDM |
Total Delay in Minutes |
|
TDMA |
Time Division Multiple Access |
|
tdo |
Tornado |
|
TDOP |
Time Dilution of Precision |
|
TDSP |
Training Documentations and Special Projects |
|
TDWR |
Terminal Doppler Weather Radar |
|
TDZ |
Touchdown Zone |
|
TEMP |
Temperature |
|
tempo |
Temporary |
|
TEN-T |
Trans- European Network - Transport |
|
TFG |
Traffic Forecasting Group |
|
TFM |
Traffic Flow Management |
|
Tfts |
Terrestrial Flight Telephone System |
|
TGS |
Taxi Guidance System |
|
TGT |
Target |
|
ThaiPA |
Thai Pilots Association |
|
THDG |
True Heading |
|
THR |
Thrust |
|
THR HOLD |
Throttle Hold |
|
TI |
Texas International |
|
TIAS |
True Indicated Airspeed |
|
TIS-B |
Traffic Information System - Broadcast |
|
TIS-B |
Traffic Information Service Broadcast |
|
TITLE |
Message Name |
|
TIZ |
Traffic Information Zone |
|
TK |
Turkish Airlines |
|
TKE |
TrackAngle Error |
|
TKOF |
Take-off |
|
TKX |
Crosstell Tracker |
|
TLA |
Title Line Area |
|
TLOF |
Touchdown and Lift-off Area |
|
TLPD |
Traffic Load Prediction Device |
|
TLS |
Target Level of Safety |
|
TLV |
Type-Length-Value |
|
TLX |
Task Load Index |
|
TM |
Traffic Management |
|
TMA |
Terminal Area |
|
TMA |
Traffic Management Advisor |
|
TMA-TC |
TMA Tactical Controller |
|
TMC |
Traffic Management Coordinator |
|
TMC |
Thrust Management Computer |
|
TMCU |
Tower Main CWP Unit |
|
TMF |
Thrust Management Function |
|
TMG |
Tourig Motor Glider |
|
TMPA |
Traffic Management Program Alerts |
|
TMRR |
Temporary Minimum Disk Route |
|
TMSSG |
Top Management Structure Sub-Group |
|
TMU |
Traffic Management Unit |
|
tmz |
Transponder Mandatory Zones |
|
TN |
True North |
|
tna |
Turn Altitude |
|
TNAV |
Time Navigation |
|
tnh |
Turn Height |
|
TO EPR |
Takeoff Engine Pressure Ratio |
|
TO Nl |
Takeoff Engine Fan Speed |
|
TOA |
Terms Of Agreement |
|
TOD |
Top of Descent |
|
TODA |
Take-Off Distance Available |
|
TODAH |
Take Off distance available, helicopter |
|
TOGA |
Takeoff/Go-Around |
|
TOP |
Cloud Top |
|
topl |
Take Off Performance Limits |
|
TOPM |
Take-Off Performance Monitors |
|
TOR |
terms of reference (ICAO/FAA) |
|
TORA |
Take-Off Run Available |
|
TOS |
Traffic Orientation Scheme |
|
TOT |
Total |
|
TPA |
Tanzania Pilots Association |
|
TRA |
Thrust Reduction Altitude |
|
TRANS |
Transition |
|
TRANSSAC |
Transport Safety Standards Advisory Committee |
|
TRK |
Track |
|
TRL |
Transition Level |
|
TRNSG |
Testing of Radio Navaids Study Group |
|
trop |
Tropopause |
|
TRU |
True |
|
TSA |
Temporary Segregated Area |
|
TSD |
Time Sequence Diagram |
|
TSE |
Total System Error |
|
TSG |
Training Sub-Group |
|
TSIKADA |
Russian four-satellite civil navigation system. |
|
TSNT |
Transient |
|
TSO |
Technical Standards Order |
|
TSP |
HRS Training Sub-Programme |
|
TSRV |
Transport Systems Research Facility |
|
TSRV |
Transport System Research Vehicle |
|
TSTMS |
Thunderstorms |
|
TSU |
Technical Support Unit |
|
TT |
Total Temperature |
|
TTA |
Tactical Training Area |
|
TTALPA |
Trinidad & Tobago Airline Pilots' Association |
|
TTC |
Telemetry and Telecommand Centre |
|
TTF |
Total Flights |
|
TTG |
Time-To-Go |
|
TTL |
Transistor-Transistor Logic |
|
TTP |
TCAS II Transition Program |
|
ttr |
Target Tracking Radars |
|
TTW |
Time To Waypoing |
|
TTY |
Teletype Telex Machine |
|
TUI |
Trade Unions International of Transport Workers |
|
TUM |
Time Update Message |
|
TURB |
Turbulence |
|
TV |
Television |
|
TVE |
Total Vertical Error |
|
Tvor |
Terminal Vor |
|
TWDL |
Two-Way DataLink |
|
TWG |
Training Working Group |
|
TWI |
Terminal Weather Information |
|
TWIP |
Terminal Weather Information for Pilots |
|
TWN |
Tactical Weather Network |
|
TWR |
Air Traffic Control Tower |
|
TWR |
Tower Control Unit |
|
TWS |
Terrain Awareness and Warning System |
|
TWT |
Travelling Wave Tube |
|
TWY |
Taxiway |
|
TWYL |
Taxiway Lights |
|
TX / RX |
Transmitter / Receiver |
|
TXWY |
Taxy Way |
|
TYP |
Aircraft Type |
|
TYPH |
Typhoon |
|
U |
Upward |
|
U/L |
Upper / Lower |
|
U/S |
Unservicealble |
|
UA |
Ukraine |
|
UAB |
Until Advised By |
|
UAC |
Upper Area Control |
|
UAC |
Upper Area Control Centre |
|
UACC |
Upper Airspace Control Centre |
|
UAL |
United Airlines |
|
UAP |
User Application Profile |
|
UAT |
Universal Access Transceiver |
|
UHF |
Ultrahigh Frequency |
|
UHF |
Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm) |
|
UIR |
Upper Information Region |
|
UL |
Uplink |
|
ULR |
Ultra Long Range |
|
un |
United Narions |
|
UNCOE |
United Nations Committee of Experts |
|
UPA |
Uganda Pilots Association |
|
UPU |
Universal Postal Union |
|
URTF |
User Requirements Task Force |
|
US |
USAir |
|
USAF |
U.S. Air Force |
|
USAF |
United States Air Force |
|
USOAP |
Universal Safety Oversight Audit Program |
|
UT |
Universal Time |
|
utc |
Universal Time Coordinate |
|
UUP |
Updated Use Plan |
|
UVA |
Utility Value Analysis |
|
V |
Velocity |
|
V |
Volt (measurement) |
|
V&V |
Validation & Verification |
|
V/M |
Volts-per-meter |
|
V/S |
Vertical speed |
|
V/STOL |
Vertical or Short Take-Off and Landing |
|
V/TRK |
Vertical Track |
|
V1 |
Take-Off Decision Speed |
|
V2 |
Takeoff Climb Velocity |
|
VA |
Heading to an Altitude |
|
VAA |
Value Added Applications |
|
vaac |
Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre |
|
vac |
Visual Approach Chart |
|
VAFORIT |
VAFOR Implementation |
|
VAN |
Value Added Network |
|
VAP |
Visual Aids Panel |
|
VAQ |
VHF Avionics Qualification |
|
VAR |
Variation Magnectic |
|
Var |
Variation |
|
VASI |
Visual Approach Slope Indicator |
|
VASIS |
Visual Approach Slope Indicator System |
|
VAT |
Value Added Tax |
|
VAW |
Vertical Assistance Window |
|
VAW |
Volcanic Ash Warnings |
|
VBF(LO) |
Flaps up minimum buffet speed at current maneuver load factor minus altitude dependent variable |
|
VBFNG(HI) |
High speed CAS at N g's to buffet onset |
|
VBFNG(LO) |
Low speed CAS at N g's to buffet onset |
|
VBX |
Visual Basic Extensions |
|
Vc |
Design Cruising Speed |
|
VC |
Vereinigung Cockpit |
|
VCCS |
Voice Communication and Control System |
|
VCMAX |
Active Maximum Control Speed |
|
VCMIN |
Active Minimum Control Speed |
|
VCO |
Voltage Controlled Oscillator (Oscillation) |
|
VCR |
Visual Control Room |
|
VCRI |
Verification Cross Reference Index |
|
vcs |
Voice Communications Systems |
|
VCSS |
Voice Communications Switching System |
|
vcy |
Vicinity |
|
VD |
Vertical Dispersal |
|
VDC |
Volts, Direct Current |
|
Vdev |
Vertical Deviation |
|
VDF |
Very high frequency Direction Finding station |
|
vdl |
Very High Frequency Data Link |
|
VDP |
Visual Descent Point |
|
VDR |
Very High Frequency Digital Radio |
|
VF |
Design Flap Speed |
|
VFE |
Flaps Extended Placard Speed |
|
VFOP |
Visual Flight Rules Operations Panel |
|
VFRG |
Visual Flight Rules Group |
|
VFXR(R) |
Flap Retraction Speed |
|
VFXR(X) |
Flap Extension Speed |
|
VG |
Ground Velocity |
|
VGND |
Ground Velocity |
|
VH |
Maximum Level-flight Speed with Continuous Power |
|
VHF |
Very High Frequency |
|
VHF |
Very-High Frequency |
|
VHRR |
Very High-Resolution Radiometer |
|
VISSR |
Visible-Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer |
|
VIVO |
Visualisation des Vols Océaniques |
|
VLDM |
Very Low Dispersible Material |
|
VLE |
Landing Gear Extended Placard Airspeed |
|
VLO |
Maximum Landing Gear of Operating Speed |
|
VLOF |
Lift-off Speed |
|
Vls |
Lowest Selectable Airspeed |
|
VM |
Heading to a manual termination |
|
VM(LO) |
Minimum Maneuver Speed |
|
VMAX |
Basic Clean Aircraft Maximum CAS |
|
VMC |
visual meteorological conditions |
|
VMIN |
Basic Clean Aircraft Minimum CAS |
|
Vmo |
Velocity Max Operating |
|
VMP |
Vertical Measurement Panel |
|
VNAV |
Vertical Navigation |
|
Vne |
never-exceed speed |
|
VNO |
Maximum structural cruising speed |
|
VNV |
Vereniging van Nederlandse Verkeersvliegers |
|
VOM |
Volt-ohm-milliammeter |
|
VOR |
VHF OmniRange Navigatgion System |
|
VORTAC |
VHF Omni Range Radio/Tactical Air Navagation |
|
VOT |
VOR airborne equipment test facility |
|
vp |
Vertical Profile |
|
VPAE |
Vertical Profile Angle Error |
|
VPATH |
Vertical Path |
|
vpd |
Vertical Polar Diagram |
|
VPIP |
Vertical Intercept Point |
|
vrb |
Variable |
|
VREF |
Approach Reference speed |
|
VREF |
Reference Velocity |
|
VRRS |
Voice Recording and Display System |
|
VRS |
Voice Response System |
|
VS |
Vocational Stabilisation |
|
VS |
Design Speed for Maximum Gust Intensity |
|
VSA |
By Visible reference to the ground |
|
Vsat |
Very Small Aperture Satellite Terminal |
|
VSBY |
Visibility |
|
VSCF |
Variable-Speed Constant Frequency |
|
vscs |
Voice Switching and Control Systems |
|
VSD |
Vision and Strategy Document |
|
VSI |
Stalling Speed in a Specified Flight Configuration |
|
VSIG |
Vertical Separation Implementation Group |
|
VSM |
Vertical Separation Minimum |
|
VSO |
Stalling Speed in the Landing Configuration |
|
VSP |
Vertical Speed |
|
VSP |
Variable System Parameter |
|
VSSG |
Vertical Separation Sub-Group |
|
VSSG |
Vertical Separation Study Group |
|
VSTOL |
Vertical or Short Takeoff and Landing |
|
VSWR |
Voltage Standing Wave Ratio |
|
VTK |
Vertical Track Distance |
|
VTN |
Voice Telecommunications Network |
|
VTOL |
Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft |
|
VTOL |
Vertical Takeoff And Landing |
|
VTOL |
Vertical Take-Off & Landing |
|
VTR |
Variable Takeoff Rating |
|
VTS |
Vessel Traffic Service |
|
VTT |
Vertical Threshold Test |
|
VU |
Utility Speed |
|
VVD |
Vertical View Display |
|
VWF |
Video For Windows |
|
VX |
Speed for best angle of climb |
|
VY |
Speed for best rate of climb |
|
W |
West |
|
W |
Watt |
|
W |
White |
|
W/MOD |
With Modification of Vertical Profile |
|
W/STEP |
With Step Change in Altitude |
|
W2 |
World Airlines |
|
WAA |
Wide Area Augmentation |
|
WAAS |
Wide Area Augmentation System |
|
WAC |
World Aeronautical Chart |
|
WAFS |
World Area Forecast System Study Group |
|
WAN |
Wide Area Network |
|
Waypoint |
Position in space usually on aircraft's flight plan |
|
WBC |
Weight and Balance Computer |
|
WEAA |
Western European Airports Association |
|
WEAAP |
Western European Association for Aviation Psychology |
|
WFTU |
World Federation of Trade Unions |
|
WG |
Working Group |
|
WGS 84 |
World Geodetic System 1984 |
|
WHO |
World Health Organisation |
|
WIAS |
Weather Information Automated System |
|
WINDMG |
Wind Magnitude |
|
WINDR |
Wind Direction |
|
WIST |
Study Group on Low Level Wind Shear Turbulence |
|
Wmo |
World Meteorological Organisation |
|
WMSC |
Weather Message Switching Center |
|
WMSCR |
Weather Message Switching Center Replacement |
|
WND |
Wind |
|
WO |
World Airways, Inc |
|
WO |
Without |
|
WOCL |
Window of Circadian Low |
|
WP |
Work Package |
|
wpl |
Work Package Leaders |
|
WPM |
speech--words per minute |
|
WPn |
First waypoint in the next sector |
|
WPP |
Working Position Processor |
|
wps |
Working Positions |
|
WPT |
Way Point Technologies |
|
WPx |
Next waypoint on the flight plan |
|
WRC |
World Radio-communications Conferences |
|
WRNG |
Warning |
|
WSC |
West Sector Co-ordinator |
|
WSFO |
Weather Service Forecast Office |
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WSO |
Weather Service Office |
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WSPD |
Wind Speed |
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WSR |
Wet Snow on Runway |
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WSW |
West-South-West |
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WT |
Weight |
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WTC |
Wake Turbulence Category |
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WTR |
Water on Runway |
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WTSPT |
Waterspout |
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WTWS |
Windshear and Turbulence Warning System |
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WWW |
World Wide Web |
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WX |
Weather |
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WX DEF |
Weather Deviation |
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WXMS |
Weather Mapping System |
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WXR |
Weather Radar |
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WXXM |
Weather eXchange Model |
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X-BAND |
The frequency range between 8000 and 12500 MHz |
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X-Wind |
Cross Wind |
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X.25 |
Packet Switched Data Network |
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X25 |
Standard protocol in telecommunications |
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XAP |
Crossing Alternate Proposal Message |
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XASM |
Cancel Assume |
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XASP |
Extended AIRCOM Service Processor |
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XBAR |
Crossbar |
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XBRIGHT |
Cancel highlighting |
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XCD |
Exceptional Conditions |
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XCM |
Crossing Request Cancelation Message |
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XCONF |
Delete CONFlict |
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XCOORD |
Cancel Co-ordination |
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XCOP |
Exit Co-ordination Point |
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XCOR |
Cancel Correlation |
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XCVR |
Transceiver |
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XECM |
Cancel Executive Controller Message |
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xeu |
European Currency Unit |
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XEXPLT |
Cancel Extrapolation |
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XFDM |
Cancel FDM |
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Xfr |
Transfer |
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XFRQ |
Cancel FreQuency message |
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XGEO |
Cancel GEO |
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XHOLD |
Cancel Hold |
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XIFL |
Cancel Intermediate Flight Level |
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XIN |
Military Crossing Intention Notification Message |
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XLTR |
Translater |
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XM |
External Master |
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XMET |
Cancel METAR |
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XMIT |
Transmit |
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XMITR |
Transmitter |
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XMT |
Excluding |
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Xng |
Crossing |
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XNSSR |
Exit NSSR |
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XOFF/PDR |
Cancel Off Predetermined Route |
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XPD |
ATC Transponder |
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xpdr |
Transponder |
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XPNDR |
Transponder |
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XTK |
Crosstrack |
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XTRK |
Cross Track Error |
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XY |
Ryan Air |
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YD |
Yaw Damper |
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YOYO |
Only Y Available |
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YSAS |
Yaw Stability Augmentation System |
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Z |
Zulu (Greenwich mean time) |
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z |
Equivalent to Greenwich Mean Time |
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ZFW |
Zero Fuel Weight |
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ZNY |
New York Air Route Traffic Control Center |
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Zulu |
Equivalent to Greenwich Mean Time |
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