- Industry: Government
- Number of terms: 8785
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- Company Profile:
Department of the Government of Canada responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of transportation in Canada. It is part of the Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities (TIC) portfolio. Transport Canada is based in Ottawa, Ontario
A VHF omnidirectional range (VOR), VORTAC or tactical air navigation aid (TACAN) that provides azimuth information, expressed as radials in degrees from 000° to 359°.
Industry:Aviation
Preferred IFR routes that are normally flown in one direction only.
Industry:Aviation
The least allowable amount of lateral, longitudinal, or vertical separation to be applied.
Industry:Aviation
A facility remotely established from a FSS or flight information centre (FIC) for the provision of communications between aircraft and this FSS or FIC.
Industry:Aviation
A defined path on a land aerodrome established for the taxiing of aircraft and intended to provide a link between one part of the aerodrome and another, including
(a) the aircraft stand taxilane;
(b) the high speed taxiway; and
(c) the pathway for the air, hover or ground taxiing of helicopters.
Industry:Aviation
The application of 1000-ft vertical separation at and above FL 290 between RVSM certified aircraft operating in designated airspace.
Industry:Aviation
A corridor of airspace of defined dimensions, located centrally between the two extended runway centrelines, where controller intervention is required to manoeuvre the non-blundering aircraft when the airspace is penetrated by an aircraft conducting a simultaneous approach to the adjacent parallel or near-parallel instrument runway.
Industry:Aviation
A situation that occurs when ATS are being provided and when a preliminary investigation indicates that safety may have been jeopardized, less than minimum separation may have existed, or both.
Industry:Aviation
An expression relating to a concept whereby pilots of aircraft flying in visual meteorological conditions (VMC), regardless of the type of flight plan (FP), are responsible for observing the presence of other aircraft, terrain and obstacles and of manoeuvring their aircraft as required to avoid these objects.
Industry:Aviation
