approach descent
1Descent (aircraft) — A descent during air travel is any portion where an aircraft decreases altitude, and is the opposite of an ascent or climb. Descents are an essential component of an approach to landing. Other intentional descents might be to avoid traffic, poor… …
2Descent Into Madness (Band) — Infobox Musical artist Name = Descent Into Madness Landscape = Yes Background = group or band Alias = Origin = Houston, U.S.A. Genre = Thrash metal, Power Metal Years active = 2000 present Label = Unsigned URL =… …
3Descent (category theory) — In mathematics, the idea of descent has come to stand for a very general idea, extending the intuitive idea of gluing in topology. Since the topologists glue is actually the use of equivalence relations on topological spaces, the theory starts… …
4Descent direction — In optimization, a descent direction is a vector that, in the sense below, moves us closer towards a local minimum of our objective function . Suppose we are computing by an iterative method, such as line search. We define a descent direction at… …
5approach — I. verb Etymology: Middle English approchen, from Anglo French aprocher, from Late Latin appropiare, from Latin ad + prope near; akin to Latin pro before more at for Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a. to draw closer to ; near …
6descent fuel — The fuel consumed from the top of the descent to the approach or holding altitude …
7final approach point — The point, applicable only to a nonprecision approach with no depicted final approach fix such as an on airport VOR (very high frequency omnidirectional radio range), where the aircraft is established inbound on the final approach course from the …
8Missed approach point — (MAPt or MAP) is the point prescribed in each instrument approach at which a missed approach procedure shall be executed if the required visual reference does not exist. It defines the point for precision and non precision approaches when the… …
9Continuous Descent Approach — (CDA) or Optimized Profile Descent (OPD) is a method by which aircraft approach airports prior to landing. It is designed to reduce fuel consumption and noise compared to certain conventional approaches and involves maintaining a constant three… …
10Instrument approach — Terminal procedures for an ILS approach in the United States. (The disclaimers shown in red in the illustration do not appear on the original approach plate.) For aircraft operating under instrument flight rules (IFR), an instrument approach or… …
