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Terms for subject Aviation (1801 entries)

terminal radar control facility	TRACON facility	Michae­lBurov
terminal radar service area	Airspace surrounding designated airports wherein ATC provides radar vectoring, sequencing, and separation on a full-time basis for all IFR and participating VFR aircraft
terrain following	The flight of a military aircraft maintaining a constant altitude above ground level (AGL) above the terrain or the highest obstacle. The altitude of the aircraft will constantly change with varying terrain and obstacles.
test flight	A flight for the purpose of investigating the operational and flight characteristics of an aircraft or an aircraft component
TFC	Terrain-following radar or reference to low altitudes pertaining to terrain-following radar
Federal Aviation Administration	the federal authority responsible for civil aviation
The HUD designation for air-to-air gun mode	DGFT
The HUD designation for air-to-air missile mode	MSLS
The HUD designation for air-to-ground bombing mode using Durandal bombs	DUR
airside	the movement area of an airport, including adjacent terrain and buildings or portions thereof, where access is controlled
airside	the part of an airport which is beyond passport controls and so is only meant to be open to the travelling public and to bona fide airport and airline staff.
threading the needle	Flying through the gaps in the air defense radar systems
threshold	The beginning of the portion of the runway usable for landing
threshold crossing height	The height of the glide path (GP) above the runway threshold
threshold lights	Lights placed across the ends of a runway or landing strip to indicate its usable limits
tiltrotor aircraft	A rotorcraft with the axes of the power-driven proprotor blades capable of pivoting from vertical for vertical takeoff, landing, and hover operations to horizontal to derive lift from the wing in cruise
time of activation	The time, expressed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at which an aircraft departs from, or is estimated to arrive over, a specified point of activation
time-based spacing	TBS	Michae­lBurov
TOF	Time of flight or actual time of flight (The time from weapon release to weapon impact)
torching	The burning of fuel at the end of an exhaust pipe or stack of a reciprocating aircraft engine resulting from an excessive richness in the fuel/air mixture