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ICAO Doc 4444 requires that radar systems should provide for the display of safety-related alerts including the presentation of minimum safe altitude warning. [2] The radar equipment predicts an aircraft’s position in 2 minutes based on present path of flight, and the controller issues a safety alert if the projected path encounters terrain or an obstruction.
There may be less power available to maintain flight overall, but the minimum safe control speeds remain the same as they would be for an aircraft being flown at 50% thrust on all four engines. Failure of a single inboard engine, from a set of four, has a much smaller effect on controllability.
VFR requires a pilot to be able to see outside the cockpit to control the aircraft's altitude, navigate, and avoid obstacles and other aircraft. [3] Governing agencies establish specific requirements for VFR flight, including minimum visibility, and distance from clouds, to ensure that aircraft operating under VFR are visible from enough distance to ensure safety.
Aircraft approaching from the north must make visual contact with the airport at a higher altitude than when approaching from the south because of rapidly rising terrain south of the airport. [13] This higher altitude allows a flight crew to clear the obstacle if a landing is aborted.
Minimum control speed ground. The minimum speed that the aircraft is still controllable with the critical engine inoperative [21] while the aircraft is on the ground. V MCL: Minimum control speed in the landing configuration with one engine inoperative. [9] [21] V MO: Maximum operating limit speed. [7] [8] [9] Exceeding V MO may trigger an ...
The rule affected only those aircraft operating under IFR when in level flight above 3,000 ft above mean sea level, or above the appropriate transition altitude, whichever is the higher, and when below FL195 (19,500 ft above the 1013.2 hPa datum in the UK, or with the altimeter set according to the system published by the competent authority in ...
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Minimum safe altitude warning (MSAW); and; Area proximity warning (APW), sometimes also called danger area infringement warning (DAIW). The equivalent system on board an aircraft is TCAS. This system alerts pilots to possible conflicts, and suggests remedial actions, in the form of a climb or descent.