- Industry: Government
- Number of terms: 8785
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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
Canada: When used in conjunction with an altitude clearance, means that ATC has offered the pilot the option of commencing the altitude change whenever the pilot wishes. When the change is initiated, the pilot should advise ATC. Pilots may temporarily level off at any intermediate altitude; however, once an altitude has been vacated, the pilot may not return to that altitude because ATC may have reassigned it to another aircraft. Pilots are expected to advise ATC of any temporary level-off at any intermediate altitude. Compliance with any assigned or published altitude crossing restriction is mandatory unless specifically cancelled by ATC.
Industry:Aviation
An expression used by ATC to validate the altitude readouts from the aircraft's encoding transponder.
Industry:Aviation
An aerodrome at which a control tower has not been established. This designation also applies during the non-operational period when an established control tower is on reduced hours (part time).
Industry:Aviation
An aircraft capable of vertical climbs and descents and of using very short runways or small areas for takeoff and landing. These aircraft include, but are not limited to, helicopters.
Industry:Aviation
In ATS operations, a power system that is not subjected to any interruption when a break occurs in the normal power supply.
Note: A UPS is required for precision approach CAT II and precision approach CAT III instrument landing system (ILS) operations.
Industry:Aviation
An approach wherein an aircraft on an IFR flight plan (FP), operating in visual meteorological conditions (VMC) under the control of ATC and having ATC authorization, may proceed to the airport of destination.
Industry:Aviation
(a) A single-seat aeroplane that has a launch weight of 165 kg (363.8 lb) or less, and a wing area, expressed in square metres, of not less than the launch weight minus 15, divided by 10, and in no case less than 10 m2;
(b) a two-seat instructional aeroplane that has a launch weight of 195 kg (429.9 lb) or less, and a wing area, expressed in square metres, of not less than 10 m2 and a wing loading of not more than 25 kg/m2 (5.12 lb/ft2), the wing loading being calculated using the launch weight plus the occupant weight of 80 kg (176.4 lb) per person; or
(c) an advanced ultralight aeroplane.
Industry:Aviation
A change in wind speed and/or wind direction in a short distance. It can exist in a horizontal or vertical direction and occasionally in both.
Industry:Aviation
An air-ground communication facility operated by a private agency to provide private advisory station (PAS) service at uncontrolled aerodromes and airports with no ATS air-ground communication facility.
Industry:Aviation
(1) Canada: Meteorological conditions, expressed in terms of visibility and distance from cloud, equal to or greater than the minima specified in CAR 602.
(2) ICAO and U.S.: Meteorological conditions, expressed in terms of visibility, distance from cloud, and ceiling, equal to or better than the minima.
Industry:Aviation
