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I would like to know if anyone can tell me where if might find a glossary of the terms and abbreviations used on your site. I am kind of new to this.

orbitor

I don't know if there is a list for this but if you tell us which terms and abbreviations you like to have explained, we'll do our best.

And welcome to Simviation ofcourse.

Crash

here is a small and incomplete one, maybe others can help too.

- A -
A Autotuned NAVAID
A At or Above (constrained altitude)
AA American
AAATS Australian Advanced Air Traffic Services
AAC Aeronautical Administration Communication (a class of communication which supports administrative communication)
AAS Advanced Automation System (the end systems for all FAA air traffic control, located at the ARTCCs)
AATT Advanced Aviation Transportation Technology
ABM Abeam
A/C Aircraft
AC Air Canada
ACARS Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System
ACARS ARINC communications and address reporting system (digital communications system used primarily for aircraft-to-airline messages)
ACARS MU ACARS Management Unit
ACAS Airborne Collision and Avoidance System
ACF Area Control Facility
ACFS Advanced Concepts Flight Simulator (a generic "glass cockpit")
ACK Acknowledge
ACMS Aircraft Condition Monitoring System
ACT Active
ADC Air Data Computer
ADF Automatic Direction Finder
ADI Attitude Director lndicator
ADLP Aircraft Data Link Processor (the Mode S subnetwork function onboard the aircraft that implements the OSI network layer protocols)
ADMA Aviation Distributors and Manufactureres Association
ADS Automatic Dependent Surveillance
AECB Atomic Energy Control Board
AERA Automated Enroute ATC
AFCS Automatic Flight Control System
AFDS Autopilot Flight Director System (also A/P F/D)
AFS Automatic Flight System
AGATE Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments
AGL Above Ground Level
AHRS Attitude Heading Reference System
AIRS Advanced Infrared Sounder
A/l Anti-ice
AI Artificial Intelligence
AL Allegheny
Alert Indicator (visual or auditory) which provides information to the flightcrew in a timely manner about an event requiring pilot awareness.
ALPA Air Line Pilots Association
ALT Altitude
ALT Alternate
ALTN Alternate
ALT HOLD Altitude Hold Mode
AM Amplitude Modulation
AM Aeromexico
AMSS Aeronautical Mobile Satellite Service
ANA All Nippon Airways
AOA Angle-of-Attack
AOA Airport Operations Area
AOC Aeronautical Operation Control (communications which support safety and regularity of flight that normally take place between aircraft and the operator)
AOCS Attitude and Orbit Control System
AOM Aircraft Operating Manual
AOPA Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
A/P Autopilot
APA Allied Pilots Association
APC Aeronautical Passenger Communication (a class of communication which supports passenger communication)
APMS Automated Performance Measurement System
APPR Approach/Approach Mode
APR April
APRT Airport
APU Auxiliary Power Unit
AQP Advanced Qualification Program
ARAC Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee
ARINC Aeronautical Radio Incorporated
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARR Arrival
ARTCC Air Route Traffic Control Center
ARTS Automated Radar Terminal System
ASCII American Standard Code for Interface and Interchange
ASI Air Speed Indicator
ASR Airport Surveillance Radar
ASRS Aviation Safety Reporting System (aviation incident reporting system run by NASA for FAA)
AT At (an altitude)
A/T Autothrottle
ATA Air Transport Association
ATA Actual Time of Arrival
ATC Air Traffic Control (a generic term for a joint civil/military system for controlling traffic within a specific area)
ATCS Advanced Train Control Systems
ATCSCC Air Traffic Control System Command Center
ATHR Autothrust System
ATIS Automatic Terminal Information Service (recorded voice message that provides weather and airport services information)
ATM Air Transportation Management
ATN Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (the collection of ground subnetworks, air/ground subnetworks and airborne subnetworks interconnected by ATN routers that support computer-to-computer, internetwork communication and message transfer between host computers using the OSI ISO protocol architecture)
ATS Automatic Throttle System
ATSC Air Traffic Service Communications (Communications related to air traffic services. This includes ATC, aeronautical and meteorological information, position reporting and services related to safety and regularity of flight)
AUG August
AV Avianca
AVAIL Available
AVHRR Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer
AWACS Airborne Warning And Control System
AWAS Automated Weather Advisory Station
AWIPS Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System


- B -

HUD Head-Up Display


- I -
 
IA Inspection Authorization
IAOA Indicated Angle-of-Attack
IAS Indicated Airspeed
ICAAS Integrated Control in Avionics for Air Superiority
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization
ID Identifier
IDENT Identification
IEPR Integrated Engine Pressure Ratio
IF Intermediate Frequency
IFR Instrument Flight Rules
IFRB International Frequency Registration Board
IGFET Insulated Gate Field Effect Transistor
ILS Instrument Landing System (uses precision localizer and glide-slope radio transmitters near a runway to provide landing approach guidance)
IMC Instrument Meteorological Conditions
INBD Inbound
INFO Information
in.hg. inches of mercury
INIT Initialization
INR Image Navigation and Registration
INS Inertial Navigation System
INTC Intercept
IPT Integrated Product Team
IRS Inertial Reference System
IRU Inertial Reference Unit
ISA International Standard Atmosphere
ISO International Standards Organization
ITU International Telecommunications Union


- J -
 
JAL Japan Air Lines
JAN January
JAR Joint Airworthiness Regulations
JATO Jet Assisted Takeoff
JL Japan Air Lines
JSRA Joint Sponsored Research Agreement
JUL July
JUN June


- K -
 
KG Kilogram
kHz kilohertz
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
km Kilometer
KT (kts) Knots
kW Kilowatt


- L -
 
L Left
LAT Latitude
LAX Identifier for Los Angeles
LCN Local Communications Network.
LDGPS Local DGPS
LFR Low-frequency Radio Range
LIM Limit
LMM Compass locator at the middle marker
LNAV Lateral Navigation (provides computer description of aircraft's planned lateral flight path that can be tracked by the autoflight system; lateral path can be shown on map display.)
LO Low
LOC Localizer Beam
LOE Line Oriented Evaluation
LOFT Line Oriented Flight Training
LOM Compass Locator at the Outer Marker
LON Longitude
LORAN Long Range Navigation
LOS Line-Oriented Simulation
LRC Long Range Cruise
LRU Line Replaceable Unit
LVL CHG Level Change


- M -
 
M Mach Number
M Manual Tuned NAVAID
MAA Maximum Authorized IFR Altitude
MAG Magnetic
MAINT Maintenance
MAN Manual
MAP Missed Approach
MAR March
M/ASI Mach/Airspeed Indicator
MAX Maximum
MAX CLB Maximum engine thrust for two-engine climb
MAX CRZ Maximum engine thrust for two-engine cruise
MCA Minimum Crossing Altitude
MCDU Multipurpose Control Display Unit
MCP Mode Control Panel (pilots' interface to the autoflight system; usually located centrally just below cockpit glare shield)
MCT Maximum Continuous Thrust
MCW Modulated Continuous Wave
MDA McDonnell-Douglas Aerospace
MDA Minimum Descent Altitude
MDL Multipurpose Data Link
MEA Minimum Enroute Altitude
MEL Minimum Equipment List
MIDAS Man-Machine Integration Design and Analysis System (NASA Ames)
MIDAS Multi-discipline Data Analysis System
MILSPEC Military Specifications
MIN Minutes
MIN Minimum
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MLA ManeuverLimited Altitude
MLE Landing Gear Extended Placard Mach Number
MLS Microwave Landing System
MMO Mach Max Operating
MN Magnetic North
MOA Memorandum of Agreement
MOCA Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitude
MOD Modified/Modification
Mode S Type of secondary surveillance radar (SSR) equipment which provides Mode A and Mode C interrogations, discrete address (Mode S) interrogations from the ground or air, and a data link capability
MODIS Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectrometer
MRA Minimum Reception Altitude
MSG Message
MSL Mean Sea Level
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
MU Management Unit
MWP Meteorological Weather Processor


- N -
 
N North
NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
NADIN II National Airspace Data Interchange Network II (the national digital message switching network for aeronautical data)
NAS National Airspace System
NAS National Aircraft Standard
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
N/A Not Applicable
NATCA National Air Traffic Controllers Association
NAV Navigation
NAVAID Navigational Aid
NBAA National Business Aircraft Association
NGATM New Generation Air Traffic Manager
ND Navigation Display
NDB Nondirectional Radio Beacon
NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
NLM Network Loadable Module
NLR National Research Laboratory (The Netherlands)
NM Nautical Mile
NMC National Meteorological Center
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOTAM Notice for Airman
NOV November
NRP National Route Program
NTSB National Transportation Safety Board
NW Northwest Airlines
NWS National Weather Service
Nl Engine Revolutions per Minute (percent)


- O -
 
OAG Official Airline Guide
OAT Outside AirTemperature
OATS Orbit and Attitude Tracking
OBTEX Offboard Targeting Experiments
OCT October
ODAPS Operational OGE Data Acquisition and Patch Subsystem
OFST Lateral Offset Active Light
OGE Operational Ground Equipment
OIS OGE Input Simulator
OO SkyWest Airlines
OP Operational
OPT Optimum
O-QAR Optical Quick Access Recorder
OSI Open Sytem Interconnection (ISO defined communications architecture used in data link to permit heterogeneous data communication systems to be interconnected in order to allow the reliable exchange of messages without regard to the implementation of the networks and physical media through which the messages pass)
OTFP Operational Traffic Flow Planning
OV Overseas National Airways


- P -
 
P Procedure-Required Tuned NAVAID
PA Pan Am
PAR Precision Approach Radar
PAWES Performance Assessment and Workload Evaluation
PBD Place Bearing/Distance (way point)
PD Profile Descent
PDB Performance Data Base
PDC Pre Departure Clearance
PERF Performance
PF Pilot Flying
PFD Primary Flight Display
PHARE Program for Harmonized ATC Research in Europe
PHIBUF Performance Buffet Limit
PHINOM Nominal Bank Angle
PIREPS Pilot Reports
PMS Performance Management System
PND Primary Navigation Display
PNF Pilot Not Flying
POS Position
POS INIT Position Initialization
POS REF Position Reference
PPI Plan Position Indicator
PPOS Present Position
PREV Previous
PROC Procedure
PROF Profile
PROG Progress Page on MCDU
PROV Provisional
PS Pacific Southwest Airways
PT Total Pressure
PTH Path
PVD Plan View Display


- Q -
 
QAR Quick Access Recorder
QRH The barometric pressure as reported by a particular station
QTY Quantity
QUAD Quadrant


- R -
 
R Right
R Route Tuned NAVAID
RAD Radial
RAD Radio
RAPS Recovery Access Presentation System
RASCAL Rotorcraft Air Crew Systems Concepts Airborne Laboratory
RCP Radio Control Panel
R/C Rate of Climb
RDP Radar Data Processing (system)
REF Reference
REQ Required/Requirement
REQ Request
RESTR Restriction
RESYNCING Resynchronizing
rf radio frequency
RMPs Radio Management Panels
RNAV Area Navigation (generic acronym for any device capable of aircraft guidance between pilot-defined waypoints
RNP Required Navigation Performance
Router An ATN network layer gateway which performs the relaying and routing of data packets across interconnecting subnetworks based on the source and destination network layer addresses and the desired quality of network service
RTA Required Time of Arrival
RTCA Radio Technical Committee on Aeronautics
RTE Route
RVR Runway Visual Range
RW Runway


- S -
 
S South
SA Situation Awareness
SAS Scandinavian Airlines System
SAT Static Air Temperature
SATCOM Satellite Communications
SBIR Small Business Innovative Research
S/C Step Climb
SEA/TAC Seattle/Tacoma International Airport
SEL Selected
SEP September
SESMA Special Event Search and Master Analysis
SID Standard Instrument Departure
SIGMET Significant Meteorological Information
SITA Soci

VSI Stalling Speed in a Specified Flight Configuration
VSO Stalling Speed in the Landing Configuration
VSTOL Vertical or Short Takeoff and Landing
VTK Vertical Track Distance
VTOL Vertical Takeoff and Landing
V/TRK Vertical Track
VTR Variable Takeoff Rating
VU Utility Speed
VX Speed for Best Angle of Climb
VY Speed for Best Rate of Climb
Vl Critical Engine Failure Velocity (Takeoff Decision Speed)
V2 Takeoff Climb Velocity


- W -
 
W West
WAAS Wide Area Augmentation System
Waypoint Position in space usually on aircraft's flight plan
WBC Weight and Balance Computer
WINDR Wind Direction
WINDMG Wind Magnitude
WPT Way point
W/MOD With Modification of Vertical Profile
WMSC Weather Message Switching Center
WMSCR Weather Message Switching Center Replacement
WO World Airways
W/STEP With Step Change in Altitude
WT Weight
WX Weather
WXR Weather Radar


- X -
X-BAND The frequency range between 8000 and 12500 MHz
XCVR Transceiver
XFR Transfer
XLTR Translater
XM External Master
XMIT Transmit
XMITR Transmitter
XPD ATC Transponder (also XPDR, XPNDR, TPR)
XTK Crosstrack (cross track error)
XY Ryan Air


- Y -
YSAS Yaw Stability Augmentation System
 
YD Yaw Damper


- Z -
 
Z Zulu (GMTtime)
ZFW Zero Fuel Weight
ZNY New York Air Route Traffic Control Center

...and not a single "Text Speak" abbreviation*... ...!

...thank goodness!

Paul...G-BPLF... 8-)...!

* Banned in Simviation!......!

Yeh broz nne of ths txt crp goin on hre

Just Kidding

Orbitor (OrbitEr? ), have you tried the 'Learning Centre'? Click on 'Index' and then go to say 'A' for 'ATC,' 'V' for VOR, etc.

Or, alternatively, google things like 'Aviation VOR' or whatever.......

Might save a lot of time and grief'......

Your point's pretty valid, though. I'm a born 'pedant' - but when I put things like 'VOR' on here, I do usually take the trouble to spell out things like 'Visual Omni-directional Range-station' in full..........

But then, I originally got interested in flying (real and 'virtual') just about the time they stopped paying pilots by the hour/nautical mile, and began paying them by the syllable........