base turn procedure
1base turn — A turn executed by the aircraft during the initial approach between the end of the outbound track and the beginning of the intermediate or final approach track. The tracks are not reciprocal (ICAO). A base turn may be designated as made either in …
2reversal procedure — A procedure designed to enable aircraft to reverse direction during initial approach segment of an instrument approach procedure. The sequence may include procedure turns or base turns (ICAO). There are three generally recognized maneuvers… …
3Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson —   Part of Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) …
4acid–base reaction — ▪ chemistry Introduction a type of chemical process typified by the exchange of one or more hydrogen ions, H+, between species that may be neutral (molecules, such as water, H2O; or acetic acid, CH3CO2H) or electrically charged (ions, such… …
5Economic base analysis — was developed by Robert Murray Haig in his work on the Regional Plan of New York in 1928. Briefly, activities in an area divide into two categories – basic and non basic. Basic industries are those exporting from the region; non basic (or… …
6final procedure turn — The turn linking the base leg to the final approach …
7final approach — That part of an instrument approach procedure that commences at the specified final approach fix or point. Where such a fix or point is not specified, it begins (a) at the end of the last procedure turn, base turn, or inbound turn of a racetrack… …
8intermediate approach segment — That segment of an instrument approach procedure between either the intermediate approach fix and the final approach fix or point, or between the end of a reversal, race track, or dead reckoning track procedure and the final approach fix or point …
9teardrop — i. A standard flying pattern similar to the race course pattern, except that one radius is larger than the other. The teardrop procedure consists of a departure from an initial approach fix on an outbound course followed by a turn toward and… …
10United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
