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Annex 19 – Safety Management (Since 14 November 2013) Annex 5, Units of Measurement to be Used in Air and Ground Operations , named in its Table 3-3 three "non- SI alternative units permitted for temporary use with the SI": the foot (for vertical distance = altitude ), the knot (for speed ), and the nautical mile (for long distance).
The manner in which aeronautical information is gathered and managed is governed by Annex 15 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (ICAO Annex 15), which defines how an aeronautical information service shall receive and/or originate, collate or assemble, edit, format, publish/store and distribute specified aeronautical information ...
The structure and contents of AIPs are standardized by international agreement through ICAO. AIPs normally have three parts – GEN (general), ENR (en route) and AD (aerodromes). The document contains many charts; most of these are in the AD section where details and charts of all public aerodromes are published.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO / ˌ aɪ ˈ k eɪ oʊ / eye-KAY-oh) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. [3]
There also are standard transponder codes for defined situations defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (marked below as ICAO). Transponder codes shown in this list in the color RED are for emergency use only such as an aircraft hijacking, radio communication failure or another type of emergency.
A flight information service (FIS) is a form of air traffic service which is available to any aircraft within a flight information region (FIR), as agreed internationally by ICAO.
Flag of the ICAO. An aircraft type designator is a two-, three- or four-character alphanumeric code designating every aircraft type (and some sub-types) that may appear in flight planning. These codes are defined by both the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
These capabilities can also be considered in context of the ICAO SWIM-concept (Doc 10039, Manual on System Wide Information Management (SWIM) Concept). [ 2 ] Eurocontrol initially presented the SWIM System concept to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 1997 and in 2005, the ICAO Global ATM Operational Concept adopted the SWIM concept ...