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  2. Localizer performance with vertical guidance - Wikipedia

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    An LPV approach is an approach with vertical guidance, APV, to distinguish it from a precision approach, PA, or a non-precision approach, NPA. WAAS criteria includes a vertical alarm limit more than 12 m, but less than 50 m, yet an LPV does not meet the ICAO Annex 10 precision approach standard. [2]

  3. Pilot licensing and certification - Wikipedia

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    ICAO Annex 1, Chapter 2 specifies licences for pilots and for remote pilots. [1] For pilots, the standard ICAO licences are: Student pilot: Cannot fly solo without endorsement from a certificated flight instructor (CFI). Carrying passengers is prohibited. Private pilot licence: May fly for pleasure or personal business. Private pilots cannot be ...

  4. Convention on International Civil Aviation - Wikipedia

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    The annexes are amended regularly by ICAO and are as follows: Annex 1 – Personnel Licensing; Licensing of flight crews, air traffic controllers & aircraft maintenance personnel. Including Chapter 6 containing medical standards. Annex 2 – Rules of the Air [5] Appendix 1 - Signals; Appendix 2 - Interception of civil aircraft

  5. Instrument landing system - Wikipedia

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    Instrument landing system. In aviation, the instrument landing system (ILS) is a precision radio navigation system that provides short-range guidance to aircraft to allow them to approach a runway at night or in bad weather. In its original form, it allows an aircraft to approach until it is 200 feet (61 m) over the ground, within a mile (800 m ...

  6. Standards and Recommended Practices - Wikipedia

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    Standards And Recommended Practices (SARPs) are technical specifications adopted by the Council of ICAO in accordance with Article 38 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation in order to achieve "the highest practicable degree of uniformity in regulations, standards, procedures and organization in relation to aircraft, personnel, airways and auxiliary services in all matters in which ...

  7. Type rating - Wikipedia

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    In order to remain compliant with ICAO Annex 1, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the United States requires co-pilots (second-in-command, or SIC) to have a 'SIC Type Rating' for aircraft requiring a crew of two, and otherwise requires a type rating to act as pilot-in-command (PIC) to fly internationally, or over international airspace.

  8. Special visual flight rules - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft need not necessarily be equipped for flight under IFR, and the aircraft must remain clear of clouds with the surface in sight, and maintain a certain flight visibility minimum (1,500 metres according to ICAO, one statute mile in the US, 1,500 m visibility, in sight of surface and clear of cloud in Europe). The pilot continues to be ...

  9. Non-directional beacon - Wikipedia

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    NDBs used for aviation are standardised by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex 10 which specifies that NDBs be operated on a frequency between 190 kHz and 1750 kHz, [2] although normally all NDBs in North America operate between 190 kHz and 535 kHz. [2] Each NDB is identified by a one, two, or three-letter Morse code ...