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Height above the ground over which you are flying.

Above Ground Level (AGL)

Type of publication offered by the FAA. Unless they're incorporated into a regulation by specific reference, AC's are issued to inform the public the non regulatory material and are not binding.

Advisory Circular (AC)

Air to ground communication facility employed at airports with a low volume of general aviation traffic and where no control tower is active.

Aeronautical Advisory Stations (UNICOM)

Systematic mental approach to consistently determine the best course of action a a given situation

Aeronautical Decision-Making (ADM)

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official guide to basic flight information and Air Traffic Control (ATC) procedures.

Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM)

FAA exam required to become a Remote Pilot in Command (PIC) for a Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS)

Aeronautical Knowledge Test

Responsible for providing the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic at airports where the type of operations and / or volume of traffic requires such a service,

Air Traffic Control (ATC)

Weather advisory that contains information about weather events that are potentially unsafe. Compared to SIGMETs, AIRMETs covers less severe weather

Airmen's Meteorological Information (AITMET)

Continuous broadcast of recorded aeronautical information in busier airports. Contains essential information such as weather information, active runways, available approaches and NOTAM

Automated Terminal Information Service (ATIS)

Observation of current surface weather reported in a standard international format. Issued hourly unless significant weather changes have occurred

Aviation Routine Weather Report (METAR)

Smart phone app from the FAA that helps unmanned aircraft operators determine whether there are any restriction or requirements in effect at the location where they want to fly

B4UFly App

The point at which your aircraft would perfectly balance if it were suspended at that point

Center of Gravity (CG)

Allows a Small Unmanned Aircraft (sUAS) operation to deviate from certain provisions of Part 107 as long as the FAA finds that the proposed operation can be safely conducted under the terms of that Certificate of Waiver

Certificate of Waiver (CoW)

Provides the most comprehensive information on a given airport. Contains information on airports, heliports, and seaplane bases that are open to the public. Published across seven books, and the information in each of the books is updated every couple of months.

Chart Supplement U.S. (formerly Airport/Facility Directory)

Frequency designed for the purpose of carrying out airport advisory practices while operation to or from and airport without and operating control tower

Common Traffic Advisory Frequency (CTAF)

An interface used by the remote pilot in command or the person manipulating the controls to control the flight path of the Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS). In basic terms this is your remote control.

Control Station (CS)

Spectacles or contact lenses

Corrective Lenses

Art and science of managing all the resources that are available to the Remote Pilot In Command (PIC) prior and during flight, including resources both on board the aircraft and from outside sources

Crew Resource Management (CRM)

When a series of judgmental errors leads to a human factors-related accident

Error Chain

Book of figures and charts that is issued during the FAA Aeronautical Knowledge Test at the completer testing centers and referenced in certain test questions

FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Supplement for Sport Pilot, Recreational Pilot, and Private Pilot (FAA-CT-8080-2G)

Network of FAA Command Control Communication Centers

FAA Regional Operations Center (ROC)

National aviation authority of the United States, with powers to regulate all aspect of civil aviation.

Federal Aviation Administration

Air traffic facility that provides the information and services to aircraft pilots before, during and after flights. Unlike Air Traffic Control (ATC), FSS in not responsible for giving instructions or clearances or providing separation, but they do relay ATC clearances

Flight Services Station (FSS)

Locally affiliated field office of the FAA.

Flight Standards District Office (FSDO)

When operation of an aircraft under the Visual Flight Rules (VFR) is not safe or legal because the visual cues outside the aircraft are obscured by weather or darkness, instrument flight rules must be used instead.

Instrument Flight Rules (IFR)

True altitude, or the average height above the standard sea level where the atmospheric pressure is measured in order to calibrate thee altitude. Related term: Above Ground Lever (AGL)

Mean Sea Level (MSL)

An Unmanned Aircraft (UA) that is capable of sustained flight in the atmosphere; flown within visual-line-of sight (VLOS) of the person operating the aircraft; and flown for hobby or recreational purposes.

Model Aircraft

Frequency allocation used as a Common Traffic Advisory Frequency (CTAF) by aircraft near airports where no air traffic control is available. In the United States, the frequency is 122.9 MHz. At uncontrolled airports without a UNICOM, pilots are to self announce on the MULTICOM frequency.

MULTICOM

Reaches from the surface to 60,000 feet within the continental United States and it's territories.

National Airspace System (NAS)

Issued when there's aeronautical information that could affect a pilot's decision to make a flight. It includes such information as airport or aerodrome primary runway closures, taxiways, ramps, obstructions, communications, airspace, and changes in the status of navigational aids, to name a few. Time-critical and either of a temporary nature or not sufficiently known in advance to permit publication on aeronautical charts or in other operational publications.

Notice to Airmen (NOTAM)

A person other than the Remote Pilot in Command (PIC) who is controlling the flight of a Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) under the supervision of the remote PIC.

Person Manipulating the Controls

Any of the electromagnetic wave frequencies in the range from around 3KHz to 300 GHz, which include those frequencies used for communications or radar signals.

Radio Frequencies (RF)

License that allows a person who passed the Aeronautical Knowledge Exam to serve as the Remote Pilot in Command (PIC) for a Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS)

Remote Pilot Certificate

Aeronautical chart showing topographical features that are important to aviators such as terrain elevations, ground features identifiable from altitude and ground features useful to pilots. Also shows information on airspace classes, ground based navigational aids, radio frequencies, longitude, latitude, navigation waypoints, and navigation routes.

Sectional Chart

An Unmanned Aircraft (UA) weighing less than 55 lbs, including everything that is onboard or otherwise attached to the aircraft and can be flown without the possibility of direct human intervention from within or on the aircraft

Small Unmanned Aircraft (Small US)

A small Unmanned Aircraft (UA) and its associated elements, including communications links and the components that control the small UA, that are required for the safe and efficient operation of the small UA in. the national Airspace System (NAS). To reiterate, the difference between the Small Unmanned Aircraft and the Small Unmanned Aircraft System is simply that the system in the aircraft PLUS all the other equipment and components, such as the remote controller/transmitter.

Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS)

Legal or formal name for a mile, or 5280 feet.

Statute Miles (SM)

Weather advisory that contains information about significant weather events like thunderstorms and severe turbulence.

Significant Meteorological Information (SIGMET)

Restriction on an area of airspace due to the movement of government VIP's special events, natural disasters, or other unusual events

Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR)

Weather report established for the five statute mile radius around an airport and usually for larger airports. Valid for up to a 30-hour time period and updated 4 times a day.

Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF)

Lays out the operating and certification requirements to allow Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) to operate for non-hobby or non-recreational purposes.

Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 107 (Part 107)

FAA document that communicates the aeronautical knowledge standards for a Remote Pilot in Command Certificate with a sUAS rating. The FAA views the ACS as the foundation to an integrated and systematic approach to airman certification.

Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airmen Certification Standards

An aircraft operated without the possibility of human intervention from within or on the aircraft. The difference between an Unmanned Aircraft and a Small Unmanned Aircraft is that the Small Unmanned Aircraft weights less than 55 pounds.

Unmanned Aircraft (UA)

Greatest horizontal distance at which prominent objects can be viewed with the naked eye.

Visibility

Set of regulations under which a pilot operates an aircraft in the weather conditions generally clear enough to allow the pilot to see where the aircraft is going.

Visual Flight Rules (VFR)

Remote Pilot in Command (PIC) and person manipulating the controls must be able to see the small UA at all times during the flight, unless you have a waiver that permits otherwise. VLOS must be accomplished and maintained by unaided vision, although eyeglasses or contact lenses are allowed.

Visual Line of Sight (VLOS)

A person acting as a flight crew member who assists the Small Unmanned Aircraft (UA) Remote Pilot in Command (PIC) and / or the person manipulating the controls to see and avoid other air traffic or objects aloft on on the ground.

Visual Observer (VO)

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