- Industry: Aviation
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Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. (ASA) develops and markets aviation supplies, software, and books for pilots, flight instructors, flight engineers, airline professionals, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, aviation technicians and enthusiasts. Established in 1947, ASA also provides ...
A fuel-air mixture whose ratio is kept constant in the lean range by an automatic mixture control in the carburetor or fuel injection system.
Industry:Aviation
A fuel-air mixture whose ratio is kept constant in the rich range by an automatic mixture control in the carburetor or fuel injection system.
Industry:Aviation
A full-sized imitation of a real device. Mock-ups of complex and costly devices, such as aircraft and space vehicles, are built to assure that all the different systems and components will work properly when they are installed in the actual vehicle.
Mock-ups can also be a portion of a complete device used as a training aid. In this regard, the control system and instruments of an aircraft or spacecraft can be made into a mock-up, so flight crews can be trained before the actual vehicle is ready for flight.
Industry:Aviation
A full-stall landing of an airplane equipped with a tail wheel. In a three-point landing, the main wheels and the tail wheel touch the ground at the same time. A three-point landing with a tail wheel airplane is desirable, but landing an airplane with a nose wheel so the main wheels and the nose wheel touch the ground at the same time is not normally considered a good operating procedure.
Industry:Aviation
A function of a radar beacon transponder that responds to Mode C interrogations by transmitting the aircraft’s altitude in 100-foot increments.
Industry:Aviation
A function of certain air traffic control automatic systems designed to alert radar controllers to existing or pending situations between a tracked target (known IFR or VFR aircraft) and an untracked target (unknown IFR or VFR aircraft) that requires immediate attention or action.
Industry:Aviation
A function of the ARTS III computer that aids the controller by alerting him when a tracked Mode C-equipped aircraft is below, or is predicted by the computer to go below, a predetermined minimum safe altitude.
Industry:Aviation
A function of the NAS Stage A enroute computer. This function aids the controller by alerting him when a tracked aircraft is below, or is predicted to go below, a predetermined minimum IFR altitude.
Industry:Aviation
A functional diagram of a system in which the units are represented by blocks that describe the functions of the unit and show its relationship to the other units of the system. Arrows between the blocks show the direction of flow of energy or information within the system. Block diagrams do not show any of the actual components.
“Blocked” (air traffic control communications). The phrase used to indicate that a radio transmission has been distorted or interrupted due to multiple simultaneous radio transmissions.
Industry:Aviation
A functional test of a piece of equipment in which the equipment is set up on a test bench and operated to find out whether or not it functions as it should.
A bench check can tell whether or not a piece of equipment is working satisfactorily by itself, but it tells little about the way it will perform when it is interconnected with other equipment.
Industry:Aviation
