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ARINC 424 or ARINC 424 Navigation System Data Base Standard is an international standard file format for aircraft navigation data maintained by Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee and published by Aeronautical Radio, Inc.
DVOR (Doppler VOR) ground station, collocated with DME. On-board VOR display with CDI MCT DVOR, Manchester Airport, United Kingdom.. Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range Station (VOR) [1] is a type of short-range VHF radio navigation system for aircraft, enabling aircraft with a VOR receiver to determine the azimuth (also radial), referenced to magnetic north, between the aircraft to/from ...
Procedures for Air Navigation Services—Air Traffic Management (PANS-ATM, ICAO Doc 4444) [24] ICAO Doc 9432 (AN/925) Manual of Radiotelephony. [25] Refinements and localization of these procedures can be done by each member country of ICAO. United States FAA Pilot Controller Glossary [26] United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority's ...
The Aircraft Classification Number (ACN) – Pavement Classification Number (PCN) method is a standardized international airport pavement rating system promulgated by the ICAO in 1981. The method has been the official ICAO pavement rating system for pavements intended for aircraft of apron (ramp) mass greater than 5700 kg from 1981 to 2020. [1]
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]
ICAO and aviation authorities such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) were spurred into action by the 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision. [2] Although ATCRBS airborne transponders were available, it wasn't until the mid-1970s that research focused on using their signals as the cooperative element for a collision avoidance system ...
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has recommended a transition to using the International System of Units since 1979 [15] [16] with a recommendation on using metres (m) for reporting flight levels. [17] China, Mongolia, Russia and many CIS countries have used flight levels specified in metres for years. Aircraft entering ...
Title 14 CFR – Aeronautics and Space is one of the fifty titles that make up the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Title 14 is the principal set of rules and regulations (sometimes called administrative law) issued by the Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration, federal agencies of the United States which oversee Aeronautics and Space.