Module 2 RA 776 Definition of Terms Flashcards
means the Civil Aeronautics Administrator.
Administrator
” means a defined area on land or water, including any
buildings, installations and equipment intended to be used either wholly or in part for the
arrival, departure and movement of aircraft.
aerodrome
means the science and art of flight.
Aeronautics
means and includes any telegraph or
telephone communication signs, signals, writings, images and sounds of any nature, by
wire, radio or other systems or processes of signaling, used in the aeronautical service.
Aeronautical telecommunication
means any station operated to
provide telecommunications for aeronautical purposes.
Aeronautical Telecommunication Station
” means a person who undertakes, whether directly or indirectly, or by a lease of any other arrangements, to engage in air transportation or air
commerce.
Air Carrier
means and includes air transportation for pay or hire, the
navigation of aircraft in furtherance of a business, or the navigation of aircraft from one
place to another for operation in the conduct of a business.
Air Commerce
” means service or carriage of persons, property or mail,
in whole or in part, by aircraft.
Air Transportation
” means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented,
used, or designed for navigation of, or flight in the air.
Aircraft
means an engine used or intended to be used for
propulsion of aircraft and includes all parts, appurtenances, and accessories thereof other than propellers
AIrcraft engine
means a radio station on board any aircraft.
Aircraft Radio Station
means any individual who engages, as the person in command
or as pilot, mechanic, flight radio operator or member of the crew, in the navigation
of aircraft while under way, and any individual who is directly in charge of inspection,
maintenance, overhauling or repair of aircraft engine, propellers, or appliances; and
any individual who serves in the capacity of aircraft dispatcher or air-traffic control
operator.
Airmen
means any facility used in, available for use in
or designed for use, in aid of air navigation, including areas, lights, any apparatus or
equipment for disseminating weather information, for signaling, for radio-directional
finding, or for radio or other electrical communication, and any other structure or
mechanism having a similar purpose for guiding or controlling flight in the air or the
landing and take-off of aircraft.
AIr Navigation Facility
means a path thru the navigable air space identified by an area
of specified width on the surface of the earth designated or approved by the Administrator
as suitable for air commerce or air transportation
Airways
means that an aircraft, its engines, propellers, and other
components and accessories, are of proper design and construction being consistent
with accepted engineering practice and in accordance with aerodynamic laws and
aircraft science.
Airworthiness
means instruments, equipments, apparatus, parts,
appurtenances, or accessories, of whatever description, which are used or are capable
of being or intended to be used in navigation, operation, or control of aircraft in
flight (including parachutes and communication equipment and any other mechanism or mechanisms installed in or attached to aircraft during flight), and which are not a
part or parts of aircraft, aircraft engines or propellers.
Appliances
” means the Civil Aeronautics Board
Board
means (a) an individual who is a citizen of the
Philippines, or (b) a partnership of which each member is such an individual or (c) a
corporation or association created or organized under the laws of the Philippines, of
which the directing head and two-thirds or more of the Board of Directors and other
managing officers are citizens of the Philippines, and in which sixty per centum of
the voting interest is owned or controlled by persons who are citizens of the Philippines
Citizen of the Philippines
means any aircraft other than a public aircraft
Civil Aircraft
means an air carrier who is a citizen of the
Philippines: Provided, That an air carrier who is not a citizen of the Philippines but
who may be allowed to engage in domestic and/or foreign air transportation, or domestic and/or foreign air commerce, in accordance with the provisions of Section
Twelve, Chapter IV of this Act, shall to all intents and purposes, be classified as a
domestic air carrier.
Domestic Air Carrier
means and includes air commerce within the
limits of the Philippine territory.
Domestic Air Commerce
means and includes a member of the operating
crew of aircraft who is granted a radio operator’s license by the Civil Aeronautics Administrator to operate aircraft radio station.
Flight Radio Operator
means air transportation within the
limits of the Philippine territory.
Domestic Air Transportaton
means an air carrier who is not a citizen of the
Philippines, and/or an air carrier other than a domestic air carrier.
Foreign Air Carrier
” means and includes air commerce between the
Philippines and any place outside it.
Foreign Air Commerce
means air transportation between the
Philippines and any place outside it, or wholly outside the Philippines.
Foreign Air Transportation
” means any locality either on water or on land, which is
adapted for landing and taking-off of aircraft located along an airway and is intermediate
to airports connected by the airway, whether or not facilities are provided for the shelter,
servicing, or repair of aircraft, or for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo.
Landing Field
means Philippine mail or foreign transit mail
” or navigate aircraft includes the piloting of aircraft.
Navigation of Aircraft
means air space above the minimum altitudes of
flight prescribed by regulations issued under this Act.
Navigable air space
means Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.
Permit
means any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation,
company, association, joint-stock association, or body politic, and includes any trustee,
receiver, assignee, or other similar representative thereof.
Person
” includes all parts, appurtenances and accessories thereof.
Propeller
means an aircraft used exclusively in the service of the
National Government of the Republic of the Philippines or of any political subdivision or
instrumentality thereof, but not including any government-owned aircraft engaged in air
commerce.
Public Aircraft
are those which insure just and reasonable return
on the capital invested, taking into consideration the cost of construction, operation and
maintenance and non-aeronautical revenue of the air navigation facility affected, which
shall be uniform
Reasonable Charge
means any person, who does not directly operate an
aircraft for the purpose of engaging in air transportation or air commerce and not bonafide
employee of an air carrier, who as principal or agent, sells or offers for sale any air
transportation of cargo, or negotiates for, or holds himself out of solicitation, advertisement, or otherwise as one who sells, provides, furnished, contracts or arranges for
such air transportation of cargo.
Cargo Sales Agent
means any indirect air carrier which, in the ordinary
and usual course of its undertaking, assembles and consolidates or provides for assembling and consolidating such property or performs or provides for the performance of
break-bulk and distributing operations with respect to consolidated shipments, and is responsible for the transportation of property from the point of receipt to point of destination and utilizes for the whole or any part of such transportation the services of a direct air carrier.
Airfreight Forwarder
means a person not a bonafide employee of an air
carrier, who pursuant to an authority from an airline, by itself or through an agent, sells or
offers for sale any air transportation, or negotiates for, or holds himself out by solicitation, advertisement or otherwise as one who sells, provides, furnishes, contracts or arranges for, such air transportation.
General Sales Agent