GLOSARIO AERONAUTICO

A

Accelerate Stop Distance Available (ASDA)
Accident
Advisory Airspace
Advisory Service
Aerodrome Operating Minima
Aeronautical Information Circular
Aeronautical Information Publications (AIPs)
Ailerons
Air Navigation Service Provider
Air Operator Certificate (AOC)
Air Traffic Control Service
Airborne Traffic Situation Awareness (ATSAW)
Aircraft Ballistic Recovery System
Aircraft Flight Manual (AFM)
Aircraft Performance
Aircraft Type Designator
Airmanship
AIRMET
Airplane Design Group (ADG)
Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM)
Airport Mapping Database (AMDB)
Airport Movement Area Safety System (AMASS)
Airspeed Conversion
Airway
Airworthiness Function Flights
Alpha Range
Alternate Aerodrome
Altimeter Pressure Settings
Altitude, Flight Level and Height
Anabatic Wind
Approach Speed Categorisation
Arm
Arrival Manager (AMAN)
ASDE-X
ASHTAM
Aspect Ratio
Asymmetric Flaps
ATS Route
Augmented Flight Crew
Aurora
Auto-ignition Temperature
Automated Cloud Base and Visibility Measurement
Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Automatic Dependent Surveillance
Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Contract (ADS-C)
Automatic Direction Finding
Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS)
Auxiliary Power Unit
Axis of Rotation


B
Beta Range
Blade Pitch
Blizzard
Briefing Facilities
Bus or Bus-Bar
Bypass Ratio



C
Cabin Altitude
Calculated Take Off Time (CTOT)
Calibrated Airspeed
Camber
Canard
CASCADE
Cascade Reverser
Ceiling
Centre of Gravity
Centre of Pressure
Certificate of Release to Service
Chord
Chord Line
Circadian Rhythm
Circling Approach
Circling Approach - difference between ICAO PANS-OPS and US TERPS
Cirrocumulus
Classification of Airspace
Clearway
CNS/ATM
Coffin Corner
Collaborative Arrangement for the Prevention and Management of Public Health Events in Civil Aviation (CAPSCA)
Compacted Snow
Compressor Stall
Condition Lever
Conditional Clearance
Conditional Route
Confirmation Bias
Constant Speed Propeller
Continuous Climb Operations (CCO)
Continuous Descent
Continuous Descent Final Approach
Continuous Ignition
Contra-Rotating Propeller
Contrail
Control Area
Control Zone
Controlled Airspace
Controlled VFR
Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC)
Coordinated Flight
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
Coriolis
Cost Index
Counter-Rotating Propellers
Coupled Ailerons and Rudder
Critical Mach Number
Cumulonimbus
Cumulus
Cyclone


D
Danger Area
Dead Reckoning
Decision Altitude/Height
Dew
Dew Point
Differential Ailerons
Differential Pressure
Dispatcher
Distance Measuring Equipment (DME)
Distrail
Distress/Emergency Frequencies
Ditching
Drift Down Procedure
Drizzle
Dry Snow
Due Regard
Dutch Roll


E
Electronic Terrain and Obstacle Data (eTOD)
Elevator
Emergency and Abnormal Checklist
Emergency Breathing Systems (EBS) for Offshore Helicopter Occupants
Emergency Depressurisation
Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT)
Emergency or Abnormal Situation
Emergency Transponder Codes
Engine
Engine Pressure Ratio (EPR)
Equivalent Airspeed
European Air Traffic Management
European Aviation Safety Seminar (EASS)
European Commission
European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS)
Exhaust Gas Temperature (EGT)
Exosphere
Explosive Depressurisation
Extended Range Twin Engine Operation


F
Feathering
Final Approach Runway Occupancy Signal (FAROS)
Firestorm
Fixed Pitch Propeller
Flame Out
Flaperons
Flaps
Flashover
Flight Controls
Flight Information Publication
Flight Information Service
Flight Plan
Flight Recorder Panel
Flight Watch
Form Drag
Framing Bias
Free Atmosphere
Free Route Airspace (FRA)
Friction Drag
Fuel
Fujita Scale
Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC)
Functional Airspace Block (FAB)
Future of JAA (FUJA)
Föhn Effect


G
GBAS Landing System (GLS)
Geared Turbofan Engine
General Air Traffic (GAT)
General Aviation
Global Navigation Satellite System
Global Positioning System (GPS)
GLONASS
Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS)
Ground Power Unit
Gust Front
Gyroscopic Flight Instruments


H
Hail
Haze
Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS)
Hearing
Height Monitoring Units
Helicopter Emergency Floatation Systems (EFS)
High Incidence Stall
High Lift Devices
Hoar Frost
Hot Start
Hull Loss
Human-Machine Interface (HMI)
Hyperventilation


I
ICAO Aerodrome Reference Code
ICAO Phonetic Alphabet
Ice Storm
Icing - Collection Efficiency
Ignition of Fuels
IMC
Indicated Airspeed
Inertial Navigation System (INS)
Instrument Flight Rules (IFR)
Integrated Tower Working Position (ITWP)
Interference Drag
Interference to GNSS Signals
International Standard Atmosphere (ISA)
Interstage Turbine Temperature (ITT)
Inverter
Ionosphere


J
Jet
Jet Engine


K
Krueger Flaps


L
Land Breeze
Landing Distances
Leading Edge
Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR)
Limiting Mach Number
Loading Instruction Form


M
Mach Number
Mach Tuck
Magneto
Mamma
Manoeuvring Speed
Mass
Mass and Balance
Maximum Take-Off Mass (MTOM)
Mean Aerodynamic Chord (MAC)
Mean Sea Level
Mesopause
Mesosphere
Meteorological Terminal Air Report (METAR)
Minimum Descent Altitude/Height
Minimum En-route Altitude
Minimum Obstacle Clearance Altitude
Minimum Operational Performance Standards
Minimum Safe Altitude
Minimum Sector Altitude
Minimum Vectoring Altitude (MVA)
MNPS
Mode C
Mode Control Panel
Moment
Monitored Approach
Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Radar
MSG-3


N
N1
N1 Indicator
N2
N2 Indicator
N3
N3 Indicator
NAA
Navigation Flight Plan
Negative Torque Sensing System
Net Take-off Flight Path
NextGen
Noise Abatement
Nominated Postholder
Non Destructive Testing
Non Revenue Flights
Non-Directional Beacon
Non-Precision Approach
Notice of Proposed Action/Amendment (NPA)
Notified Airspace
NPRM


O
OEM
Operational Air Traffic (OAT)
Operations Manual
Orographic Lift
Orographic Wind
Out of Phase Maintenance
Ozone


P
Paramotor
Parasite Drag
Part 145
Part 21
Part 66
Performance Based Navigation (PBN)
Pilot Flying and Pilot Not Flying
Piston Engine
Pitch
Planform
Polar Vortex
Pre-flight Preparation
Precision Approach
Precision-Area Navigation (P-RNAV)
Primary Flight Display
Prohibited Area
Propeller
Propeller Blade Separation
Propeller Synchronisation
Propeller Synchrophaser
Pyrocumulus


Q
Quick Access Recorder
Quick Reference Handbook


R
Radar
Radar Advisory Service
Radar Control Service
Radar Identification
Radar Information Service
Radio Mandatory Zone (RMZ)
Radius of Turn
Ram Air Turbine
Ramjet
Rapid Depressurisation
Rate of Turn
Realignment of the Mental Model
Rectifier
Reference Datum
Regional Monitoring Agency
Reliability
Repetitive Flight Plans
Restricted Area
Reverse Pitch
Reverse Thrust
Rime ice
Roll
Rotable
Rudder
Runway Safety
Runway Visual Range (RVR)


S
Safety Significant Item
Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS)
Scramjet
Sea Breeze
Sea State
Sectorisation
Serious Incident
Serious Injury
Service Bulletin
Service Information Letter
Short Take-Off and Landing (STOL)
SIDs and STARs
SIGMET
Skid
Slats
Sleet
Slip
Slush
Smog
SNOWTAM
SOPs
Special VFR
Spin
Spin Recovery
Squall Line
Squitter
Stabilator
Standard Rate Turn
Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPS)
State Aircraft
State of Design
State of Manufacture
State of Registry
State of the Operator
Stick Pusher
Stopway
Stratopause
Stratus
Structural Repair Manual
Supercharger
Supercritical Aerofoils
Supplementary Type Certificate
System-wide Information Management (SWIM)


T
Tailpipe Fire
Take Off Distance Available (TODA)
Takeoff Configuration Warning Systems (TOCWS)
Takeoff Run Available (TORA)
Target Reverser
Temporary Reserved Area
Temporary Segregated Area
Terminal Arrival Altitude
Terminal Control Area
Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
Thermosphere
Throttle Lever
Thrust
Thunder
TIS-B
Trailing Edge
Transformer
Transformer Rectifier Unit (TRU)
Transition Altitude/Level
Transonic
Transport Category Aircraft
Trim Systems
Trim Tab
Trimmable Horizontal Stabiliser
Troposphere
Turbine Inlet Temperature (TIT)
Turbocharger
Turbofan Engine
Turbojet Engine
Turboprop Engine
Turboshaft Engine
Type Certificate
Type Certificate Data Sheet
Type Certificate Holder


U
Ultralight/Microlight Aircraft
Underwater Locator Beacon (ULB)
Unmanned Aircraft Systems


V
V-Tail
V1
V2
Variable Pitch Propeller
VEF
Velocity
Vertical Short Take-Off and Landing (VSTOL)
Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL)
Very Light Jet (VLJ) / Entry Level Jet (ELJ) Operations
Vfs
VHF Omnidirectional Radio Range (VOR)
Virga
Vision
Visual Approach
Visual Approach Slope Indicator Systems
Visual Flight Rules (VFR)
Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC)
VLOF
Vmca
Vmcg
Vne
Vno
Volcanic Ash Advisory
Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre
Vr
Vref
Vs
Vs0
Vs1g
Vsw

W

Wave Drag
Wet Snow
Wide Area Multilateration
Wind
Wing Sweep
Wing Tip Drag Reduction Devices


Z
Zonal Inspection