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Moisture that has condensed from water vapor. Usually found on cooler objects near the ground, such as grass, as the near-surface layer of air cools faster than the layers of air above it.
Industry:Aviation
The pilot responsible for the operation and safety of an aircraft.
Industry:Aviation
A card that may be set, gyroscopically controlled, or driven by a remote compass.
Industry:Aviation
An imaginary line through an aircraft from nose to tail, passing through its center of gravity. The longitudinal axis is also called the roll axis of the aircraft. Movement of the ailerons rotates an airplane about its longitudinal axis.
Industry:Aviation
A table depicted on an instrument approach procedure chart that identifies the distance from the FAF to the MAP, and provides the time required to transit that distance based on various groundspeeds.
Industry:Aviation
The temperature at which air reaches a state where it can hold no more water.
Industry:Aviation
The reciprocal of the localizer course for an ILS. When flying a back-course approach, an aircraft approaches the instrument runway from the end at which the localizer antennas are installed.
Industry:Aviation
Stability about the lateral axis. A desirable characteristic of an airplane whereby it tends to return to its trimmed angle of attack after displacement.
Industry:Aviation
A turn in which the clock and the turn coordinator are used to change heading a definite number of degrees in a given time.
Industry:Aviation
