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DAFIF diagram of Ottawa International Airport. The Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File or DAFIF (/ ˈ d eɪ f ɪ f /) is a comprehensive database of up-to-date aeronautical data, including information on airports, airways, airspaces, navigation data, and other facts relevant to flying in the entire world, managed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) of the United States.
The Plan for the Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids (SCATANA) is an emergency preparedness plan of the United States which prescribes the joint action to be taken by appropriate elements of the Department of Defense, Federal Aviation Administration, and the Federal Communications Commission in the interest of national security in order to effectively control air traffic ...
AIDS (Aircraft Integrated Data System) was the precursor to current aircraft systems such as ACMS (Aircraft Condition Monitoring System) and ACMF (Aircraft Condition Monitoring Function) that allow the airline to utilise parameter values that exist on the aircraft buses. The original Airbus A320 was equipped with an
These alphabetic codes are used on FAA and ICAO flight plan forms to aid flight service station (FSS) personnel in their handling of aircraft. On the FAA domestic flight plan form (FAA Form 7233-1) the equipment code is a single character placed in block 3 (Aircraft Type / Special Equipment) as a suffix to the aircraft type code. A single ...
Radio-navigation aids must keep a certain degree of accuracy, given by international standards, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), ICAO, etc.; to assure this is the case, Flight inspection organizations periodically check critical parameters with properly equipped aircraft to calibrate and certify NDB precision. The ICAO minimum accuracy ...
In the United States, the AIM is published by the Federal Aviation Administration, and contains eleven chapters, [1] as follows: Air Navigation; Aeronautical Lighting and Other Airport Visual Aids; Airspace; Air Traffic Control; Air Traffic Procedures; Emergency Procedures; Safety of Flight; Medical Facts for Pilots; Aeronautical Charts and ...
The Federal Aviation Administration location identifier (FAA LID) is a three- to five-character alphanumeric code identifying aviation-related facilities inside the United States, though some codes are reserved for, and are managed by other entities. [1]: §1–2-1
inoperable radio navigational aids; military exercises with resulting airspace restrictions; inoperable lights on tall obstructions; temporary erection of obstacles near airfields (e.g., cranes) passage of flocks of birds through airspace (a NOTAM in this category is known as a BIRDTAM)