DEFINITION OF SOME WORDS_PART II
Flight: The period from take-off to landing.
Flight Clearance: The flight clearance is an authorization from Air Traffic Control authorities to proceed according to the desired flight plan.
Flight Crew: Flight Crew means a group of persons who undertake to act as Captain or First Officer.
Flight Crew Member: A licensed crew member charged with duties essential to the operation of an aircraft during flight time.
Flight Dispatcher (Flight Operations Officer): A person designated by the Operator to engage in the control and supervision of flight operations, who supports, briefs, and/or assists the Commander in the safe conduct of the flight.
Flight Information Service: An airspace defined dimensions within which flight information service and alerting service are provided.
Flight Level: A surface of constant atmospheric pressure which is related to a specific pressure datum, 1013.2 hectoPascals (hPa), and is separated from other such surfaces by specific pressure intervals.
Flight Plan: Specified information provided to air traffic services units, relative to an intended flight or portion of a flight of an aircraft.
Flight Release : The flight release of a flight occurs when the Flight Dispatcher approves the Operational Flight Plan, after which it is submitted to the Commander for acceptance. The flight release may be in the form of an Operational Flight Plan or a separate document, signed by the Flight Dispatcher and issued in accordance with the company operations manual.
Flight Visibility: The visibility forward from the cockpit of an aircraft in flight.
Flight Watch: Is the monitoring or following the progress of a flight.
Forecast: A statement of expected meteorological conditions for a specified time or period and for a specified area or portion of airspace.
Glide Path: A descent profile determined for vertical guidance during a final approach.
Ground Visibility: The visibility at an aerodrome, as reported by an accredited observer.
Heading: The direction in which the longitudinal axis of an aircraft is pointed, usually expressed in degrees from North (true, magnetic, compass or grid).
Height: The vertical distance of a level, a point or an object considered as a point, measured from a specified datum.
Holding Point: A specified location, identified by visual or other means, in the vicinity of which the position of an aircraft in flight is maintained in accordance with air traffic control clearance.
Holding Procedure: A predetermined manoeuvre that keeps an aircraft within specified airspace while awaiting further clearance.
IFR Flight: A flight conducted in accordance with the instrument flight rules.
Initial Approach Segment: That segment of an instrument approach procedure between the initial approach fix and the intermediate approach fix or, where applicable, the final approach fix or point.
Instrument Approach Procedure: A series of predetermined manoeuvres by reference to flight instruments with specified protection from obstacles from the initial approach fix or, where applicable, from the beginning of defined arrival route, to a point from which a landing can be completed and thereafter, if a landing is not completed, to a position at which holding or en-route obstacle clearance criteria apply.
Instrument Meteorological Conditions: Meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from cloud, and ceiling, less than the minima specified for visual meteorological conditions.
Medical Certificate: The evidence issued by the Authority that the license holder meets specific requirements of medical fitness. It is issued following an evaluation by the Licensing Authority of the report submitted by the designated medical examiner who conducted the examination of the applicant for the license.
Meteorological Offices: An office designated to provide meteorological service for international air navigation.
Meteorological Information: Meteorological report, analysis, forecast, and any other statement relating to existing or expected meteorological conditions.
Minimum Equipment List (MEL): A list provides for the operation of aircraft, subject to specified conditions, with particular equipment inoperative, prepared by an operator in conformity with, or more restrictive than, the MMEL established for the aircraft type.
Missed Approach Procedure: The procedure to be followed if the approach cannot be continued.
Net Flight Path: It is a flight path determined for engine(s) failure case. It is established in such a manner that it represents the actual climb performance diminished by a gradient of climb of:
• Take-off (one engine failure): 0.8 % for two-engine aircraft
• En-route (one engine failure): 1.1 % for two-engine aircraft
NOTAM: A notice containing information concerning the establishment, condition or change in any aeronautical facility, service, procedure or hazard, the timely knowledge of which is essential to personnel concerned with flight operations.
Obstacle clearance altitude/height (OCA/H): The lowest altitude (OCA), or alternatively the lowest height above the elevation of the relevant runway threshold or above the aerodrome elevation as applicable (OCH), used in establishing compliance with the appropriate obstacle clearance criteria.
Operational Control: The exercise of authority over the initiation, continuation, diversion or termination of a flight in the interest of the safety of the aircraft and the regularity and efficiency of the flight.
Operational Flight Plan: The operator's plan for the safe conduct of the flight based on considerations of aircraft performance, other operating limitations, and relevant expected conditions on the route to be followed and at the airports concerned.
Operations Manual: A manual containing procedures, instructions and guidance for use by operational personnel in the execution of their duties.
Operations Specifications: The authorizations, conditions and limitations associated with the air operator certificate (AOC) and subject to the conditions in the operations manual.
Operator: A person, organization or enterprise engaged in or intending to engage in an aircraft operation.
Pilot-in-Command: The pilot responsible for the operation and safety of the aircraft during flight time.
Problematic use of Substances: The use of one or more psychoactive substances by aviation personnel in a way that:
• Constitutes a direct hazard to the user or endangers the lives, health or welfare of others, and/or
• Causes or worsens an occupational, social, mental or physical problem or disorder.
Psychoactive Substances: Alcohol, opium, cannabis, sedatives and hypnotics, cocaine, other psycho stimulants, hallucinogens, and volatile solvents, whereas coffee and tobacco are excluded.
Reporting Point: A specified geographical location in relation to which the position of an aircraft can be reported.
Restricted Area: An airspace of defined dimensions above the land areas or territorial waters of a state within which the flight of an aircraft is restricted in accordance with certain specified conditions.
Runway: A defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft.
Runway Visual Range: The range over which the pilot of an aircraft on the centre line of a runway can see the runway surface markings or the lights delineating the runway or identifying its centre line.
SIGMET: Information issued by a meteorological watch office concerning the occurrence or expected occurrence of specified en-route weather phenomena which may affect the safety of aircraft operations.
Snow (on the ground):
• Dry snow: Snow which can be blown if loose or, if compacted by hand, will fall apart upon release; specific gravity: up to but not including 0.35.
• Wet snow: Snow which, if compacted by hand, will stick together and tend to or form a snowball; specific gravity: 0.35 up to but not including 0.5.
• Compacted snow: Snow which has been compressed into a solid mass that resists further compression and will hold together or break up into chunks if picked up; specific gravity: 0.5 and over.
Taxiing: Movement of the aircraft on the surface of an aerodrome under its own power, excluding take-off and landing.
Taxiway: A defined path on a land aerodrome established for the taxiing of aircraft and intended to provide a link between one part of the aerodrome and another, including:
Apron Taxiway: A portion of a taxiway system located on an apron and intended to provide a through taxi route across the apron.
Rapid Exit Taxiway: A taxiway connected to a runway at an acute angle and designed to allow landing aeroplanes to turn off at higher speed than are achieved on other exit taxiways and thereby minimising runway occupancy times.
Threshold: The beginning of that portion of the runway usable for landing.
Track: The projection on the earth's surface of the path of an aircraft, the direction of which path at any point is usually expressed in degrees from North (true, magnetic or grid).
Transition Altitude: The altitude at or below which the vertical position of an aircraft is controlled by reference to altitudes.
Transition Level: The lowest flight level available for use above the transition altitude.
UN number: The four-digit number assigned by the United Nations Committee of experts on the transport of dangerous goods to identify a substance or a particular group of substances.
VFR Flight: A flight conducted in accordance with the visual flight rules.
Visibility: The ability, as determined by atmospheric conditions and expressed in units of distance, to see and identify prominent unlighted objects by day and prominent lighted objects by night.
Visual meteorological conditions: Meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from cloud, and ceiling, equal to or better than specified minima.
Flight Clearance: The flight clearance is an authorization from Air Traffic Control authorities to proceed according to the desired flight plan.
Flight Crew: Flight Crew means a group of persons who undertake to act as Captain or First Officer.
Flight Crew Member: A licensed crew member charged with duties essential to the operation of an aircraft during flight time.
Flight Dispatcher (Flight Operations Officer): A person designated by the Operator to engage in the control and supervision of flight operations, who supports, briefs, and/or assists the Commander in the safe conduct of the flight.
Flight Information Service: An airspace defined dimensions within which flight information service and alerting service are provided.
Flight Level: A surface of constant atmospheric pressure which is related to a specific pressure datum, 1013.2 hectoPascals (hPa), and is separated from other such surfaces by specific pressure intervals.
Flight Plan: Specified information provided to air traffic services units, relative to an intended flight or portion of a flight of an aircraft.
Flight Release : The flight release of a flight occurs when the Flight Dispatcher approves the Operational Flight Plan, after which it is submitted to the Commander for acceptance. The flight release may be in the form of an Operational Flight Plan or a separate document, signed by the Flight Dispatcher and issued in accordance with the company operations manual.
Flight Visibility: The visibility forward from the cockpit of an aircraft in flight.
Flight Watch: Is the monitoring or following the progress of a flight.
Forecast: A statement of expected meteorological conditions for a specified time or period and for a specified area or portion of airspace.
Glide Path: A descent profile determined for vertical guidance during a final approach.
Ground Visibility: The visibility at an aerodrome, as reported by an accredited observer.
Heading: The direction in which the longitudinal axis of an aircraft is pointed, usually expressed in degrees from North (true, magnetic, compass or grid).
Height: The vertical distance of a level, a point or an object considered as a point, measured from a specified datum.
Holding Point: A specified location, identified by visual or other means, in the vicinity of which the position of an aircraft in flight is maintained in accordance with air traffic control clearance.
Holding Procedure: A predetermined manoeuvre that keeps an aircraft within specified airspace while awaiting further clearance.
IFR Flight: A flight conducted in accordance with the instrument flight rules.
Initial Approach Segment: That segment of an instrument approach procedure between the initial approach fix and the intermediate approach fix or, where applicable, the final approach fix or point.
Instrument Approach Procedure: A series of predetermined manoeuvres by reference to flight instruments with specified protection from obstacles from the initial approach fix or, where applicable, from the beginning of defined arrival route, to a point from which a landing can be completed and thereafter, if a landing is not completed, to a position at which holding or en-route obstacle clearance criteria apply.
Instrument Meteorological Conditions: Meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from cloud, and ceiling, less than the minima specified for visual meteorological conditions.
Medical Certificate: The evidence issued by the Authority that the license holder meets specific requirements of medical fitness. It is issued following an evaluation by the Licensing Authority of the report submitted by the designated medical examiner who conducted the examination of the applicant for the license.
Meteorological Offices: An office designated to provide meteorological service for international air navigation.
Meteorological Information: Meteorological report, analysis, forecast, and any other statement relating to existing or expected meteorological conditions.
Minimum Equipment List (MEL): A list provides for the operation of aircraft, subject to specified conditions, with particular equipment inoperative, prepared by an operator in conformity with, or more restrictive than, the MMEL established for the aircraft type.
Missed Approach Procedure: The procedure to be followed if the approach cannot be continued.
Net Flight Path: It is a flight path determined for engine(s) failure case. It is established in such a manner that it represents the actual climb performance diminished by a gradient of climb of:
• Take-off (one engine failure): 0.8 % for two-engine aircraft
• En-route (one engine failure): 1.1 % for two-engine aircraft
NOTAM: A notice containing information concerning the establishment, condition or change in any aeronautical facility, service, procedure or hazard, the timely knowledge of which is essential to personnel concerned with flight operations.
Obstacle clearance altitude/height (OCA/H): The lowest altitude (OCA), or alternatively the lowest height above the elevation of the relevant runway threshold or above the aerodrome elevation as applicable (OCH), used in establishing compliance with the appropriate obstacle clearance criteria.
Operational Control: The exercise of authority over the initiation, continuation, diversion or termination of a flight in the interest of the safety of the aircraft and the regularity and efficiency of the flight.
Operational Flight Plan: The operator's plan for the safe conduct of the flight based on considerations of aircraft performance, other operating limitations, and relevant expected conditions on the route to be followed and at the airports concerned.
Operations Manual: A manual containing procedures, instructions and guidance for use by operational personnel in the execution of their duties.
Operations Specifications: The authorizations, conditions and limitations associated with the air operator certificate (AOC) and subject to the conditions in the operations manual.
Operator: A person, organization or enterprise engaged in or intending to engage in an aircraft operation.
Pilot-in-Command: The pilot responsible for the operation and safety of the aircraft during flight time.
Problematic use of Substances: The use of one or more psychoactive substances by aviation personnel in a way that:
• Constitutes a direct hazard to the user or endangers the lives, health or welfare of others, and/or
• Causes or worsens an occupational, social, mental or physical problem or disorder.
Psychoactive Substances: Alcohol, opium, cannabis, sedatives and hypnotics, cocaine, other psycho stimulants, hallucinogens, and volatile solvents, whereas coffee and tobacco are excluded.
Reporting Point: A specified geographical location in relation to which the position of an aircraft can be reported.
Restricted Area: An airspace of defined dimensions above the land areas or territorial waters of a state within which the flight of an aircraft is restricted in accordance with certain specified conditions.
Runway: A defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft.
Runway Visual Range: The range over which the pilot of an aircraft on the centre line of a runway can see the runway surface markings or the lights delineating the runway or identifying its centre line.
SIGMET: Information issued by a meteorological watch office concerning the occurrence or expected occurrence of specified en-route weather phenomena which may affect the safety of aircraft operations.
Snow (on the ground):
• Dry snow: Snow which can be blown if loose or, if compacted by hand, will fall apart upon release; specific gravity: up to but not including 0.35.
• Wet snow: Snow which, if compacted by hand, will stick together and tend to or form a snowball; specific gravity: 0.35 up to but not including 0.5.
• Compacted snow: Snow which has been compressed into a solid mass that resists further compression and will hold together or break up into chunks if picked up; specific gravity: 0.5 and over.
Taxiing: Movement of the aircraft on the surface of an aerodrome under its own power, excluding take-off and landing.
Taxiway: A defined path on a land aerodrome established for the taxiing of aircraft and intended to provide a link between one part of the aerodrome and another, including:
Apron Taxiway: A portion of a taxiway system located on an apron and intended to provide a through taxi route across the apron.
Rapid Exit Taxiway: A taxiway connected to a runway at an acute angle and designed to allow landing aeroplanes to turn off at higher speed than are achieved on other exit taxiways and thereby minimising runway occupancy times.
Threshold: The beginning of that portion of the runway usable for landing.
Track: The projection on the earth's surface of the path of an aircraft, the direction of which path at any point is usually expressed in degrees from North (true, magnetic or grid).
Transition Altitude: The altitude at or below which the vertical position of an aircraft is controlled by reference to altitudes.
Transition Level: The lowest flight level available for use above the transition altitude.
UN number: The four-digit number assigned by the United Nations Committee of experts on the transport of dangerous goods to identify a substance or a particular group of substances.
VFR Flight: A flight conducted in accordance with the visual flight rules.
Visibility: The ability, as determined by atmospheric conditions and expressed in units of distance, to see and identify prominent unlighted objects by day and prominent lighted objects by night.
Visual meteorological conditions: Meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from cloud, and ceiling, equal to or better than specified minima.
DEFINITION OF SOME WORDS_PART II
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