enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Localizer performance with vertical guidance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localizer_Performance_with...

    Landing minima are usually similar to those of a Cat I instrument landing system (ILS), that is, a decision height of 200 feet (61 m) and visibility of 800 m. [1] Lateral guidance is equivalent to a localizer, and uses a ground-independent electronic glide path. Thus, the decision altitude, DA, can be as low as 200 feet. An LPV approach is an ...

  3. Hello convention - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_convention

    Hello is a bridge convention used for intervention over an opponent's 1NT opening. It allows for all one- and two-suited hands to be shown, and - for one suited hands - retains the ability to transfer .

  4. Modern United States Navy carrier air operations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_United_States_Navy...

    Landing gear/flaps are lowered, and landing checks are completed. When abeam (directly aligned with) the landing area on downwind, the aircraft is 180° from the ship's course and about 1.1 nautical miles (2.0 km; 1.3 mi) to 1.3 nautical miles (2.4 km; 1.5 mi) from the ship, a position known as "the 180" (because of the angled flight deck ...

  5. Undercarriage arrangements - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercarriage_arrangements

    The Antonov An-225's main landing gear (consisting of two 14-wheel bogies) The tables below show how various types of wheeled units are arranged to form the undercarriages of some popular aircraft from manufacturers Antonov , Airbus , and Boeing .

  6. Instrument flight rules - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_flight_rules

    In general, each specific instrument approach specifies the minimum weather conditions to permit landing. Although large airliners, and increasingly, smaller aircraft, carry their own terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS), [ 14 ] these are primarily backup systems providing a last layer of defense if a sequence of errors or omissions ...

  7. Optical landing system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_landing_system

    The mirror landing aid was invented by Nicholas Goodhart. [2] It was tested on the carriers HMS Illustrious and HMS Indomitable before being introduced on British carriers in 1954 and on US carriers in 1955. The mirror landing aid was a gyroscopically controlled concave mirror on the port side of the flight deck. On either side of the mirror ...

  8. Touch-and-go landing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch-and-go_landing

    In a normal landing, the pilot flies the traffic pattern and establishes the aircraft on final approach.As the aircraft crosses the threshold of the runway the pilot executes the landing flare, touches the aircraft down, and immediately applies braking, ground spoilers, and (if available) reverse thrust until the aircraft has decelerated enough to exit onto a taxiway.

  9. CTOL - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTOL

    A conventional take-off and landing (CTOL), [1] also known as horizontal take-off and landing (HTOL) is the process whereby conventional fixed-wing aircraft (such as passenger aircraft) take off and land, involving the use of runways.