CONFIDENTIAL
GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN
PRESENTATIONS MADE BY CAD AND THEIR CONSULTANTS TO
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC). OFFICIALS ON 1 JULY 1981
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Accelerate-stop distance
Aerodrome reference
temperature
Airway
Length of the runway suitable for the ground run of an aircraft taking off plus the length of an area prepared as a suitable area on which an aircraft can be stopped in the case of an abandoned take-off.
: A monthly average of the maximum daily temperature
for the hottest month of the year.
A route in space established for bitcraft movements.
The alignment of an airway is defined
by radio navigational aids.
ATC
Balanced field length
(BFL)
Category II
CLK
Control Zone
DMB
FIR
T.
Holding area
:
Air traffic control.
: The runway length required when the take-off
distance of an aircraft with one engine inoperative equals the accelerate-stop distance.
A defined air navigation system with equipment which allows aircraft operation in weather conditions down to 400 metres visibility and with cloud at 30 metres above ground.
: Chek Lap Kok Island - the proposed Hong Kong
Replacement Airport site..
Airspace extending upwards from the surface of the earth to a specified upper limit within which aircraft are provided with air traffic control service.
Distance measuring equipment - a radio navigational aid which provides pilots with information on the distance of their aircraft from the ground station where the equipment is installed.
An abbreviation for Flight Information Region - An airspace of defined dimensions within which flight formation service and service to notify appropriate organisations regarding aircraft in need of search and rescue aid is provided.
A specified airspace within which an aircraft in flight may circle whilst awaiting further authorization to proceed by an air traffic control
unit.
This Glossary provides "layman's" explanations of terms and abbreviations in the presentation papers, rather than the technical formal definitions published by ICAO.
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