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Aviation

Dealing with vehicles or machines used in flight or propulsion through the air.

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Center Weather Advisory (CWA)

Aviation; Air traffic control

U.S.: An unscheduled weather advisory issued by Center Weather Service Unit meteorologists for ATC use to alert pilots of existing or anticipated adverse weather conditions within ...

convective SIGMET

Aviation; Air traffic control

U.S.: A weather advisory concerning convective weather significant to the safety of all aircraft. Convective SIGMETs are issued for tornadoes, lines of thunderstorms, embedded ...

Simultaneous Operations on parallel or near-parallel instrument runways (SOIR)

Aviation; Air traffic control

A term used by ICAO to refer to operations in which aircraft conduct simultaneous approaches and/or departures from parallel or near-parallel instrument runways. Note: Although ...

North American route (NAR)

Aviation; Air traffic control

A special routing system consisting of routes located within the high level airspace established to facilitate control of the flow of international air traffic between the North ...

RSC report

Aviation; Air traffic control

Section of the Aircraft Movement Surface Condition Report (AMSCR) which provides runway surface information using a verbal description of the runway condition.

STOL aircraft

Aviation; Air traffic control

An aircraft that, at some weight within its approved operating weight, is capable of operating from a STOL runway in compliance with the applicable STOL characteristics and ...