pilot-controlled landing
1Landing — is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal, aircraft, or spacecraft returns to the ground. When the flying object returns to water, the process is called alighting, although it is commonly called landing and touchdown as well. A normal… …
2Pilot error — 1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B 52 crash, caused by flying the aircraft beyond its operational limits. This history is now used in military and civilian aviation environments as a case study in teaching crew resource management Pilot error… …
3Controlled Impact Demonstration — The controlled impact demonstration The Controlled Impact Demonstration (or colloquially the Crash In the Desert) was a joint project between NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) aimed at acquiring data, as well as demonstrating and …
4Controlled flight into terrain — CFIT redirects here. For the Canadian radio station in Airdrie, Alberta, see CFIT FM. A piece of the remains of Air New Zealand Flight 901, which crashed in 1979. All 257 people on the plane were killed. Controlled flight into terrain (CFIT)… …
5Landing Zone — A Landing Zone or LZ is a military term for any area where aircraft land.In the United States military, a landing zone is the actual point where aircraft land (equivalent to the commonwealth landing point.)In commonwealth militaries, a landing… …
6ground-controlled approach — noun aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar • Syn: ↑GCA • Hypernyms: ↑aircraft landing, ↑airplane landing * * * noun also ground control approach …
7ground-controlled approach — /grownd keuhn trohld /, Aeron. a system in which an observer interprets radar observations of the position of an aircraft and transmits continuous instructions to its pilot for landing. Abbr.: GCA Also, ground control approach. [1940 45] * * * …
8Water landing — Ditching redirects here. For the intentional delinquence from compulsory schooling, see truancy. A water landing is, in the broadest sense, any landing on a body of water. All waterfowl, those seabirds capable of flight, and some human built… …
9Radio-controlled aircraft — A radio controlled aircraft (often called RC aircraft or RC plane) is a model aircraft that is controlled remotely, typically with a hand held transmitter and a receiver within the craft. The receiver controls the corresponding servos that move… …
10Optical landing system — The Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System of Charles de Gaulle An optical landing system (OLS) (nicknamed meatball or simply, Ball ) is used to give glidepath information to pilots in the terminal phase of landing on an aircraft carrier.[1] From… …
