glide-slope angle
1glide slope — noun the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing • Syn: ↑approach path, ↑approach, ↑glide path • Hypernyms: ↑air lane, ↑flight path, ↑airway, ↑skyway …
2glide slope/glideslope — The same as glide path. It provides vertical guidance for aircraft during approaches and landings. The glide slope, or glide path, is based on the following: i. Electronic components emitting signals that provide vertical guidance by referring to …
3false glide slope — A characteristic of the glide slope portion of the ILS (instrument landing system), in which one or more false glide slopes at different angles to the horizontal occur well above the true glide slope. This is because of a radiation pattern of the …
4glide slope — Aeron. the angle that the glidepath of an aircraft or spacecraft makes with the horizontal. Also called glide angle, gliding angle. [1945 50] * * * …
5glide-path transmitter — An element in the ILS (instrument landing system) that defines a glide path beam and assists an aircraft to make an approach at a correct glide angle. A glide path transmitter is located 750 to 1250 ft from the runway threshold and 250 to 600 ft… …
6glide path — i. The flight path of an aircraft in glide, as seen from the side. ii. The glide slope (i.e., the path used by an aircraft in approach procedure generated by an instrument landing facility). iii. An aircraft on a PAR (precision approach radar)… …
7Glide ratio — Glide ratio, also called, Lift to drag ratio, glide number, or finesse, is an aviation term that refers to the distance an aircraft will move forward for any given amount of lost altitude (the cotangent of the downward angle). Alternatively it is …
8slope — [slōp] n. [ME < aslope, sloping (mistaken as a slope) < OE aslopen, pp. of aslupan, to slip away < slupan, to glide: see SLOOP] 1. a piece of ground that is not flat or level; rising or falling ground 2. any inclined line, surface,… …
9Visual Approach Slope Indicator — The Visual Approach Slope Indicator (VASI) is a system of lights on the side of an airport runway that provides visual descent guidance information during the approach to a runway. These lights may be visible from up to eight kilometers (five… …
10Landing Signal Officer — Landing Signal Officers (LSOs) are naval aviators specially trained to control the approach and landings of airplanes aboard aircraft carriers. Paddles In the U.S. Navy, aircraft carrier operations began with USS Langley (CV 1) in 1922. Langley s …
