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A strip bay at a high-altitude procedural area control sector in Indonesia. A flight progress strip or flight strip [1] is a small strip of paper used to track a flight in air traffic control (ATC). While it has been supplemented by more technologically advanced methods of flight tracking since its introduction, it is still used in modern ATC ...
There are two flight information regions (FIRs) separated by an approximately diagonal line running from the northwest near the border with Indonesia to the southeast near Sydney. There are two Air Traffic Service Centres (ATSCs), one in Brisbane and another in Melbourne each responsible for providing air traffic control services in their FIRs.
SKYbrary is a wiki created by the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, International Civil Aviation Organization, and the Flight Safety Foundation to create a comprehensive source of aviation safety information freely available online.
A typical runway safety area, marked in brown color. A runway safety area (RSA) or runway end safety area (RESA, if at the end of the runway) is defined as "the surface surrounding the runway prepared or suitable for reducing the risk of damage to airplanes in the event of an undershoot, [1] overshoot, or excursion from the runway."
ICAO Doc 9830 defines A-SMGCS as follows: Advanced surface movement guidance and control system (A-SMGCS). A system providing routing, guidance and surveillance for the control of aircraft and vehicles in order to maintain the declared surface movement rate under all weather conditions within the aerodrome visibility operational level (AVOL) while maintaining the required level of safety.
Flight procedure; Flight progress strip; Flight service station; Flight traffic mapping; Flight watch; Free flight (air traffic control) Future Air Navigation System; G.
Standard visual approach slope indicator (circled in red) Working VASI Comparison of PAPI, VASI, and OLS meatball and datum lights (not to scale) Basic visual approach slope indicators consist of one set of lights set up 7 metres (23 ft) from the start of the runway.
airspace management (ASM), the purpose of which is to allocate air routes, zones, flight levels to different airspace users and the airspace structure, and air traffic flow and capacity management (ATFCM) [ 3 ] (or Air Traffic Flow Management, ATFM) [ 4 ] consisting in regulating the flow of aircraft as efficiently as possible in order to avoid ...