Basic Aviation Flashcards (All Types)
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grahampilot on October 11, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Landing Lights | Bright lights made to illuminate the ground in front of the aircraft |
| ATC | Air Traffic Control |
| Ground Stop | All aircraft grounded at airport or on wider scale |
| "Heavy" | A special callsign for large aircraft (747-400, C-17) |
| Taxi via _____________________________ | Taxi clearance give by air traffic control with specific instructions on whats taxiways to use (Taxi to runway 5 via taxiway E5 X2 G G3 D4 Z M L L6) |
| IFR | Instrument Flight Rules |
| VFR | Visual Flight Rules |
| Formation | A close group of multiple aircraft, flying together |
| MOA | Military Operations Area, a area that has military op's in it, civilian aircraft are permitted but they should use extra caution and watch out for USAF aircraft |
| "Visual" | I have a visual on the runway (I can see the runway) |
| "14 mikes" | 14 minutes ("Mike" is minute) |
| G's | Gravitational forces (if you turn at a high speed you will feel G's, 2 g's would feel like you way twice as much as you do) |
| Stall | Angle of attack gets to high and airflow over the wing is disrupted causing the aircraft to "stall" or lose lots of lift and be uncontrollable unless you recover (nose down, full power, till speed is back the nose up to regain altitude but watch out, you don't want a secondary stall) |
| "Bogey" | Unknown aircraft (hostile?) that the military is chasing down |
| VOR | A navigation instrument, "Very High Frequency Omni-Directional Range" |
| Flight Level | If you are flying above 18,000 feet, instead of saying 18,000, ATC will say flight level 180, or the first three numbers in the altitude above 18,000 feet. FL560 = 56,000 feet. FL320 = 32,000 feet. |
| Low Level | Military flying low is usually just called low level "55M is 500 knots low level over the desert" |
| Flares | Like fireworks coming out the back of the plane these are designed to distract heat seeking missiles from the aircraft's engines. So if a missile is coming at you, you should pop flares and take a hard turn. |
| "Break ________!" | A hard turn either left or right. "Choca 2-1 break left bogey on your six o' clock!" |
| Fast Mover | An aircraft (usually military) that can go fast and manuever quickly. (An F-22 Raptor) "229 your cleared for takeoff watch out you got a fast mover taking off on the other runway" |
| "Immediate Turn" | Air Traffic Control gives this command to an aircraft only in emergencies if an air to air collision is empending. "Cessna 22K make immediate right turn approaching you're 7 o' clock fast!" |
| Checklist | A list of procedures a pilot follows to ensure the aircraft and passengers are safe to fly. There are emergency and normal checklists, all aircraft have checklists. |
| Callsign | An Air Traffic Control name, all the controllers will call you this sometimes abbreviated. General aviation will be called by their tail # (N3526J cleared to land), airliners may be called by their airline name followed by flight # ("Southwest 502 cleared to land"), military is sometimes a name and a number that generally sounds "cooler" and stands out ("Viper 53T cleared for takeoff") a formation of planes in the military may be just a name but if the formation splits the aircraft will assume separate #'s and callsigns. |
| Ramp | A parking spot or an area of the airport with multiple spots, not to be confused with a "gate" were larger aircraft and airliners park (If you fly for travel you may board the plane at "gate B2"). |
| To Declare Emergency | An official declaration of emergency, this officially lets the ATC know that you are in trouble, this also gives you priority over any other aircraft. "American 5346, at flight level 350, engine fail on the right declaring an emergency" |
| ADF | A navigation instrument, "Automatic Direction Finder" |
| NDB | A navigation instrument, Non-Directional Beacon |
| DME | A navigation instrument, Distance Measuring Equipment |
| "Squawk" | Air traffic control, will (if needed) assign you a special code to type into you're transponder so they can easily identify you on radar by you transponder code. If you have not been assigned one the normal VFR (visual flight rules) code is 1200, if you are hijacked squawk 7500, if you are ditching (trying to land in a "non-ideal spot") squawk 7700. Otherwise never squawk those codes. |
| Ditching | A forced landing in a makeshift runway AKA: the ocean |
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