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2. Flight plan - Wikipedia

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   International flight plan. Flight plans are documents filed by a pilot or flight dispatcher with the local Air Navigation Service Provider (e.g., the FAA in the United States) prior to departure which indicate the plane's planned route or flight path. [1] Flight plan format is specified in ICAO Doc 4444.

3. Flight progress strip - Wikipedia

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   A blank and a filled-out example of a US en-route flight progress strip. There are many styles of progress strip layouts, but minor differences aside, a strip contains at least: Aircraft identification (e.g. aircraft registration or a flight number) Aircraft type as the relevant 4-letter ICAO designator (e.g. B744 for a Boeing 747-400)

4. List of transponder codes - Wikipedia

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   Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) flight below 18,000 ft ASL when no other code has been assigned. [7] ICAO: Non-discrete mode A code reserved use in mode S radar/ADS-B environment where the aircraft identification will be used to correlate the flight plan instead of the mode A code. [1] US: Used exclusively by ADS-B aircraft to inhibit mode 3A ...

5. Flight planning - Wikipedia

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   Flight plans mix metric and non-metric units of measurement. The particular units used may vary by aircraft, airline, and location across a flight. Since 1979, [4] the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has recommended a unification of units of measurement within aviation based on the International System of Units (SI). [5]

6. Equipment codes - Wikipedia

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   These alphabetic codes are used on FAA and ICAO flight plan forms to aid flight service station (FSS) personnel in their handling of aircraft. On the FAA domestic flight plan form (FAA Form 7233-1) the equipment code is a single character placed in block 3 (Aircraft Type / Special Equipment) as a suffix to the aircraft type code. A single ...

7. List of aircraft type designators - Wikipedia

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   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).

8. Aviation call signs - Wikipedia

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   Commercial operators, including scheduled airline, air cargo and air taxi operators, will usually use an ICAO or FAA-registered call sign for their company.By ICAO Annex 10 Chapter 5.2.1.7.2.1 - Full call signs type C, a call sign consists of the telephony designator of the aircraft operating agency, followed by the flight identification.

9. Instrument flight rules - Wikipedia

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   IFR flight depends upon flying by reference to instruments in the flight deck, and navigation is accomplished by reference to electronic signals." [1] It is also a term used by pilots and controllers to indicate the type of flight plan an aircraft is flying, such as an IFR or VFR flight plan. [2]