approach control tower
11Terminal Control Center — A Terminal Radar Approach Control (or FAA TRACON in the United States) is an Air Traffic Control facility usually located within the vicinity of a large airport. Typically, the TRACON controls aircraft within a 30 50 nautical mile (56 to 93 km)… …
12London Terminal Control Centre — The London Terminal Control Centre (LTCC) was an air traffic control centre based in West Drayton, in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England, approximately 2.5 miles north of London Heathrow airport. Operated by National Air Traffic Services… …
13Traffic Control — ➡ law enforcement * * * Introduction supervision of the movement of people, goods, or vehicles to ensure efficiency and safety. Traffic is the movement of people and goods from one location to another. The movement typically occurs… …
14Marine Air Control Squadron 2 — MACS 2 Insignia Active 1 April 1944 – present Country United States …
15Procedural control — is a method of providing air traffic control services without the use of radar. It is used in regions of the world, specifically sparsely populated land areas and oceans, where provision of contiguous radar cover is either prohibitively expensive …
16option approach — An approach requested and conducted by a pilot that will result in a touch and go, missed approach, low approach, stop and go, or full stop landing at the pilot’s discretion. The pilot should make a request for this procedure while passing the… …
17air traffic control unit — A generic term meaning variously, area control center, approach control office, or aerodrome control tower. As the circumstances require, an ATC (air traffic control) unit may be (i) an area control center (ACC) established to provide ATC… …
18visual approach — An approach by an IFR flight when either part or all of an instrument approach procedure is not completed and the approach is executed in visual reference to terrain (ICAO). A pilot, when authorized to proceed visually, must remain clear of… …
19VFR (visual flight rules) tower — An airport traffic control tower that does not provide approach control service …
20Cooling tower — Natural draft wet cooling hyperboloid towers at Didcot Power Station, UK …
