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The line, course, or track along which an aircraft is flying or is intended to be flown.
Industry:Aviation
The ratio of the existing amount of water vapor in the air at a given temperature to the maximum amount that could exist at that temperature; usually expressed in percent.
Industry:Aviation
The amount of physical exertion on the control column necessary to achieve the desired attitude.
Industry:Aviation
A streamlined enclosure on an aircraft in which an engine is mounted. On multiengine propeller-driven airplanes, the nacelle is normally mounted on the leading edge of the wing.
Industry:Aviation
A visual aid of lights arranged to provide descent guidance information during the approach to the runway. A pilot on the correct glideslope will see red lights over white lights.
Industry:Aviation
Basic maneuvers, flown by reference to the instruments rather than outside visual cues, for the purpose of practicing basic attitude flying. The patterns simulate maneuvers encountered on instrument flights such as holding patterns, procedure turns, and approaches.
Industry:Aviation
Direction of the airflow produced by an object moving through the air. The relative wind for an airplane in flight flows in a direction parallel with and opposite to the direction of flight; therefore, the actual flight path of the airplane determines the direction of the relative wind.
Industry:Aviation
A measure of the response of an aircraft relative to the pilot’s flight control inputs.
Industry:Aviation
A Federal agency operating under the FAA, responsible for publishing charts such as the terminal procedures and en route charts.
Industry:Aviation
A defined point on the final approach course of a nonprecision straight-in approach procedure from which normal descent from the MDA to the runway touchdown point may be commenced, provided the runway environment is clearly visible to the pilot.
Industry:Aviation
