- Industry: Government
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The condition of slightly increased air pressure below an airplane wing or helicopter rotor system that increases the amount of lift produced. It exists within approximately one wing span or one rotor diameter from the ground. It results from a reduction in upwash, downwash, and wingtip vortices, and provides a corresponding decrease in induced drag.
Industry:Aviation
A reciprocating aircraft engine having a rated takeoff power that is producible only at sea level.
Industry:Aviation
A system designed to determine an aircraft’s clearance above the Earth and provides limited predictability about aircraft position relative to rising terrain.
Industry:Aviation
Designed for visual navigation of slow- or medium-speed aircraft. Topographic information on these charts features the portrayal of relief, and a judicious selection of visual cheque points for VFR flight. Aeronautical information includes visual and radio aids to navigation, airports, controlled airspace, restricted areas, obstructions and related data.
Industry:Aviation
An inspection identical in scope to an annual inspection. Conducted every 100 hours of flight on aircraft on under 12,500 pounds that are used to carry passengers for hire.
Industry:Aviation
Speed over the ground, either closing speed to the station or waypoint, or speed over the ground in whatever direction the aircraft is going at the moment, depending upon the navigation system used.
Industry:Aviation
A satellite technology permitting the Department of defence (DOD) to create, in the interest of national security, a significant clock and ephemeris error in the satellites, resulting in a navigation error.
Industry:Aviation
The ability to determine present position in space independently, and is most often used by pilots.
Industry:Aviation
An inherent quality of rotating bodies, which causes an applied force to be manifested 90° in the direction of rotation from the point where the force is applied.
Industry:Aviation
An inner ear organ that detects angular acceleration of the body.
Industry:Aviation
