safety of flight
1Flight attendant — Flight attendants or cabin crew (historically known as stewards, air hosts/hostesses, or stewardesses) are members of an aircrew employed by airlines to ensure the safety and comfort of the passengers aboard commercial flights as well as on… …
2Flight controller — Flight controllers are personnel who aid in the operations of a space flight, working in Mission Control Centers such as NASA s Mission Control Center, or ESA s Operations Center. Flight controllers sit at computer consoles and use telemetry to… …
3Flight test engineer — A Flight Test Engineer (FTE) is an engineer involved in the flight testing of prototype aircraft. The Flight Test Engineer generally has overall responsibility for the planning of a specific flight test phase, which includes preparing the test… …
4Flight simulator — [ twinjet flight simulator] A flight simulator is a system that tries to copy, or simulate, the experience of flying an aircraft. It is as realistic as possible. The different types of flight simulator range from video games up to full size… …
5Flight level — A Flight Level (FL) is a standard nominal altitude of an aircraft, in hundreds of feet. This altitude is calculated from a world wide fixed pressure datum of 1013.25 hPa (29.921 inHg), the average sea level pressure, and therefore is not… …
6Flight test — is a branch of aeronautical engineering that develops and gathers data during flight of an aircraft and then analyses the data to evaluate the flight characteristics of the aircraft and validate its design, including safety aspects. The flight… …
7Flight Operations Quality Assurance — (FOQA, pronounced PHO kua), also known as Flight Data Management (FDM) or Flight Data Analysis, is a method of capturing and analyzing the data generated by an aircraft moving through the air from one point to another. Applying the information… …
8Flight Data Monitoring — (FDM) ist ein Verfahren in der Luftfahrt zum Sammeln und Analysieren von Daten mit Hilfe eines Flugdatenschreibers, um die Effizienz der Flugzeugbesatzung, die operativen Abläufe, das Flugtraining, die Unterstützung durch Flugnavigationsdienste,… …
9Flight control modes (electronic) — New aircraft designs like this Boeing 777 rely on sophisticated flight computers to aid and protect the aircraft in flight. These are governed by computational laws which assign flight control modes during flight Aircraft with fly by wire flight… …
10Flight plan — Flight plans are documents filed by pilots or a Flight Dispatcher with the local Civil Aviation Authority (e.g. FAA in the USA) prior to departure. They generally include basic information such as departure and arrival points, estimated time en… …
