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Drag generated by the collision of airstreams creating eddy currents, turbulence, or restrictions to smooth flow.
Industry:Aviation
A preplanned IFR ATC arrival procedure published for pilot use in graphic and/or textual form.
Industry:Aviation
An airport designated in an IFR flight plan, providing a suitable destination if a landing at the intended airport becomes inadvisable.
Industry:Aviation
The United Nations agency for developing the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fostering planning and development of international civil air transport.
Industry:Aviation
Weights established for numerous items involved in weight and balance computations. These weights should not be used if actual weights are available.
Industry:Aviation
A valve in the instrument static air system that supplies reference air pressure to the altimeter, airspeed indicator, and vertical speed indicator if the normal static pickup should become clogged or iced over.
Industry:Aviation
A model of standard variation of pressure and temperature.
Industry:Aviation
The aerodynamic pitching moments required to return the aircraft to the equilibrium angle of attack.
Industry:Aviation
A flight instrument that indicates altitude by sensing pressure changes.
Industry:Aviation
The estimation of an intermediate value of a quantity that falls between marked values in a series. Example: In a measurement of length, with a rule that is marked in eighths of an inch, the value falls between 3/8 inch and 1/2 inch. The estimated (interpolated) value might then be said to be 7/16 inch.
Industry:Aviation
