runway environment

  • 1runway environment — The runway threshold or approach lighting aids or other markings identifiable with the runway …

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  • 2environment — environmental, adj. environmentally, adv. /en vuy reuhn meuhnt, vuy euhrn /, n. 1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu. 2. Ecol. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors… …

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  • 3Runway — This article is about the aircraft take off and landing area. For other uses, see Runway (disambiguation). Landing strip redirects here. For the pubic hairstyle, see Bikini waxing. RWY redirects here. For the audio/video connectors, see RCA… …

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  • 4Air transport and the environment (United Kingdom) — Increasing demand for air travel in the UK has resulted in a conflict between the desire to cater for that demand and the environmental consequences of doing so. In the past 25 years the UK air transport industry has seen sustained growth, and… …

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  • 5Wilkins Runway — Infobox Airport name = Wilkins Runway nativename = nativename a = nativename r = image width = caption = IATA = ICAO = YWKS type = Private owner = operator = Australian Antarctic Division city served = Australian Antarctic Territory location =… …

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  • 6Missed 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… …

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  • 7Instrument 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… …

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  • 8Approach lighting system — The approach lighting system of Bremen Airport An approach lighting system, or ALS, is a lighting system installed on the approach end of an airport runway and consisting of a series of lightbars, strobe lights, or a combination of the two that… …

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  • 9side-step maneuver — A visual maneuver accomplished by a pilot at the completion of an instrument approach to permit a straight in landing on a parallel runway that is separated by 1200 ft or less. Aircraft that will execute a side step maneuver will be cleared for a …

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  • 10Southern Airways Flight 932 — N1334U, similar to the aircraft involved in the accident, pictured in Orlando, Florida in April 1973. Accident summary Date Nov …

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