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Airport
A station, usually consisting of buildings, airfields and runways, used to provide a place for aircraft to take off and land as well as to house commercial services for passengers and on-board staff.
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aviation weather information service (AWIS)
Aviation; Air traffic control
A service provided by an FSS that gives factual weather information obtained from actual weather reports, official weather forecasts and approved graphic or weather chart products. It does not ...
aircraft movement information service (AMIS)
Aviation; Air traffic control
A service provided by area control centres (ACC) for the collection, processing and dissemination of aircraft movement information for use by air defence units.
approach control service (APP)
Aviation; Air traffic control
(1) ICAO: Air traffic control service for arriving or departing controlled flights. (2) U.S.: ATC service provided by an approach control facility for arriving and departing VFR/IFR aircraft and, on ...
aeronautical mobile service (AMS)
Aviation; Air traffic control
A mobile service between aeronautical stations and aircraft stations, or between aircraft stations, in which survival craft stations may participate; emergency position-indicating radio beacon ...
altitude reservation specialist
Aviation; Air traffic control
An employee in the area control centre (ACC) assigned responsibility for processing requests for altitude reservations (ALTRV).
air traffic control operations support specialist
Aviation; Air traffic control
An employee assigned to perform non-control functions in an ATC unit.
air show
Aviation; Air traffic control
An aerial display or demonstration before an assembly of persons by one or more aircraft.
