Unit 4 Flashcards
Administrator
The FAA administrator or any person to whom he or she has delegated his/her authority in the matter of concerned.
Aircraft
A device that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air
Airframe
The fuselage, booms, nacelles, cowlings, fairlings, airfoil surfaces (excluding propellers of engines), and landing gear of an aircraft and their accessories and controls.
Airplane
Engine-driven fixed-wing aircraft heavier than air that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its wings.
Airport
Area of land or water that is used or intended to be used for the landing and takeoff of aircraft, and includes it’s buildings and facilities, if any.
Air traffic
Aircraft operating in the air or on an airport service exclusive of loading ramps and parking areas.
Air traffic clearance
Authorization by air traffic control, for the purpose of preventing a collision between known aircraft, for an aircraft to proceed under specified traffic conditions in controlled airspace.
Air traffic control
A service operated by appropriate authority to promote the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic.
Alternate airport
An airport at which an aircraft may land if a landing at the intended airport becomes inadvisable.
Ceiling
The height of the surface of the lowest layer of clouds or obscuring phenomena that is reported as broken overcast or obscuration and not classified as thin or partial.
Civil aircraft
Aircraft other than public aircraft.
Decision height
The height above ground level (AGL) at which a decision must be made during an instrument approach, either to continue the approach or to execute a missed approach. This can also be referred to as decision altitude (DA) which is expressed in feet above mean sea level (MSL).
Flight plan
Specified information relating to the intended flight of an aircraft that is filed orally or in writing with air traffic control.
Flight time
Pilot time that commences when an aircraft moves under power for the purpose of flight and ends when the aircraft comes to rest after landing.
Flight visability
The average forward horizontal distance from the cockpit of an aircraft in flight at which prominent unlighted objects may be seen an identified by day and prominent lighted objects may be seen and identified by night.
Ground Visibility
Prevailing horizontal visibility near the Earth’s surface as reported by the United States national weather service or an accredited observer.
IFR Conditions
Weather conditions below the minimum for flight under visual flight rules.
IFR over-the-top
The operation of aircraft over-the-top on an IFR flight plan when cleared by ATC to maintain “VFR conditions’ or ‘VFR conditions on top’
Instrument
A device using an internal mechanism to indicate visually or aurally the attitude, altitude, or operation of an aircraft or aircraft part. It includes electronic devices for automatically controlling an aircraft in flight.
Large aircraft
And aircraft having a maximumcertificated takeoff weight more than 12,500 lb.
