Abbreviations Flashcards
VMC
Visual meteorological conditions
IMC
Instrument meteorological conditions
CADORS
Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System is the name given to the Canadian national ATS safety data reporting system which collects information about operational occurrences within the Canadian National Civil Air Transportation System.
CVFR
Controlled Visual Flight Rule (VFR) - similar to flight following.
Happens in class B airspace
MEA
Minimum En Route Altitude (MEA). The MEA is the lowest published altitude between radio fixes that assures acceptable navigational signal coverage and meets obstacle clearance requirements between those fixes.
AAE
Above Aerodrome Elevation
RNAV
Area navigation. It is a method of instrument flight rules navigation that allows an aircraft to choose any course within a network of navigation beacons rather than navigate directly to and from the beacons