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Lights that are flush with the runway which emit a steady green color.
Industry:Aviation
An electrical current being induced into, or generated in, any conductor that is crossed by lines of flux from any magnet.
Industry:Aviation
A misleading visual image. For the purpose of this handbook, the term refers to the brain’s misinterpretation of features on the ground associated with landing, which causes a pilot to misread the spatial relationships between the aircraft and the runway.
Industry:Aviation
The total surface of the wing (in square feet), which includes control surfaces and may include wing area covered by the fuselage (main body of the airplane), and engine nacelles.
Industry:Aviation
An aircraft attitude indicator that incorporates flight command bars to provide pitch and roll commands.
Industry:Aviation
A physical sensation caused by an abrupt correction of a banked attitude entered too slowly to stimulate the motion sensing system in the inner ear. The abrupt correction can create the illusion of banking in the opposite direction.
Industry:Aviation
Physical and chemical adjustments of the eye that make vision possible in relative darkness.
Industry:Aviation
Awareness of the position of the aircraft and of oneself in relation to a specific reference point.
Industry:Aviation
