- Industry: Government
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Department of the Government of Canada responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of transportation in Canada. It is part of the Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities (TIC) portfolio. Transport Canada is based in Ottawa, Ontario
An instrument approach procedure (IAP) that relies on aircraft area navigation equipment for navigational guidance.
Industry:Aviation
The federal agency conducting independent investigations and public inquiries into transportation occurrences, including aviation occurrences, to advance transportation safety.
Industry:Aviation
The implementation of local area differential global positioning system (GPS) to provide early satellite navigation precision approach CAT I capability. Standards in Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) DO 217 provide for certification of the ground station, data link and airborne receiver as a total system. The total system approval is unique to a given runway.
Industry:Aviation
A four-digit octal number received from the aircraft transponder when it is interrogated by a secondary surveillance radar (SSR).
Industry:Aviation
An ELT that is removable from an aircraft, stowed so as to facilitate its ready use in an emergency and activated by survivors. Automatic activation may apply.
Industry:Aviation
As geographically delineated in the Designated Airspace Handbook (DAH), a subdivision of Canadian Domestic Airspace (CDA) commencing at the North Pole and extending southward to the northern limit of the Southern Domestic Airspace (SDA).
Industry:Aviation
As geographically delineated in the Designated Airspace Handbook (DAH), all airspace within the Canadian Domestic Airspace (CDA) commencing at the Canada-United States border and extending northward to the southern limit of the Northern Domestic Airspace (NDA).
Industry:Aviation
An expression used in radiocommunications to instruct a pilot to abandon an approach or landing.
Industry:Aviation
An expression used by pilots to indicate that they have received runway, wind and altimeter information only.
Industry:Aviation
A primary Transport Canada publication of aeronautical information intended to serve as a pre-flight reference source for pilots and that contains information essential to aircraft operations in Canadian Domestic Airspace (CDA). It consolidates information of a lasting nature into a single document. Topics covered are general flight information, communications, meteorology, rules of the air and ATC procedures, entry and departure requirements for international flights, search and rescue, aeronautical charts and publications, licencing and registration, health, and airmanship.
Industry:Aviation
