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2W 2wire
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3-D 3-Dimensional
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3A Mode 3 or Mode A (Classical SSR Reports)
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3D three dimensional
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4-MAST 4-MAST Group
4D four dimensional
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4D-CARMA 4 Dimensional Cooperative Arrival Manager
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4W 4wire
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5GSO Group of Senior Officials - Four States and Maastricht UAC ANSPs (5GSO)
A ampere
A Austria
A Analysis (SASS-C)
A-CDM Airport Collaborative Decision Making (Prise de décision en collaboration aux aéroports)
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A-QPSK Aviation Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
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A-RNP 1 Advanced-RNP 1
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A-S Anti-Spoofing Mode
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A-S Anti-Spoofing
A-SMGCS Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (Système avancé de guidage et de contrôle des
mouvements en surface)
A/A Air/Air
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A/C Aircraft
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A/C Alpha/Charlie
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A/G Air-Ground
A/G Air/Ground
A/I Accident(s)/Incident(s)
a/m Above-mentioned
A/P Autopilot
A/V Aircraft/Vehicle
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AA Autonomous Aircraft
AA Active
AA Approved Agency
AA Address Announced
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AA Aircraft Address
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AAA Advanced ATC System Amsterdam / Contrôle régional avancé d'Amsterdam
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AAA AIP Audit Assistant
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AAAV Azienda Autonoma di Assistenza al Volo
AAAVTAG Azienda Autonoma Assistenza al Volo per il Traffico Aereo Generale (IT)
AAG AIS Automation Group (Groupe de travail sur l'automatisation de l'AIS) (EANPG)
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AAL ATM Adaptation Layer
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AAL Above Aerodrome Level
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AAM Airline Administration Message
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AAM Airport Airside Model (Airport Airside Management High-Level Model) (Modèle de haut niveau de gestion des
aéroports côté piste)
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Airport Airside Management Systems (Système de gestion des aéroports côté piste)
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AAMS Advanced Airspace Management System
AB Airblock
AB Audit Board
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ABEND ABnormal END (of system operation)
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ABFG ATM Basic Functionality Sub-Group (Sous-groupe "Fonctions ATM de base")
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ABI Advance Boundary Information (Message Type Designator)
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ABM ABeaM
ABPWG ANSB Business Planning Working Group (Groupe de travail de l'ANSB sur la planification stratégique)
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ABT ABouT
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AC Assistant Controller
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AC Aircraft Characteristics (aircraft type + performance, ENV entity type, used in all CHMI)
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AC Association Control
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AC Aircraft
AC Access Control
AC Airworthiness codes
AC Assessment Centre
AC Aircraft Commander
AC All-Call
AC Advisory Circular
AC Alternating Current
AC Alto Cumulus
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ACA Airport Carbon Accreditation
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ACA Address Compression Algorithm
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ACAC Arab Civil Aviation Commission (Commission arabe de l'aviation civile)
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ACAC African Aviation Commission
ACAD
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Auto Computer Aided Design (Operator-Input + Display System)
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ACAF ATM Common Assessment Framework
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ACAP Airport capacity and runway utilisation (Exploitation de la capacité des aéroports et utilisation des pistes)
ACARE Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (Conseil consultatif pour la recherche aéronautique en
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Europe)
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ACARS Aircraft Communications, Addressing and Reporting System (Système embarqué de communications,
d'adressage et de compte rendu)
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ACCB AIXM Change Control Board (Comité de suivi des modifications de l'AIXM)
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ACCD Advanced Continuous Climb Departure
ACCEL Accelerate
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ACCES ACC assessing capacity method
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ACCESS Aircraft Control Console for Experiments and Simulations Studies
ACE ATM Cooperation and Coordination in South Eastern Europe (Coopération et coordination ATM dans le Sud-
Est de l'Europe)
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ACE Airport Airside Capacity Enhancement (Amélioration de la capacité aéroportuaire côté piste)
ACE WG ATM Cost-Effectiveness Working Group (Groupe de travail sur l'efficacité économique de l'ATM)
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ACFT Aircraft
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ACG Atm/cns Consultation Group
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ACG Ats Concept working Group
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ACH ATC Flight Plan Change (Modification de plan de vol ATC) (IFPS)
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ACI Airports Council International (Conseil international des aéroports)
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ACN Airspace Coordination Notification
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ACN Aircraft Classification Number
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ACNS Airborne Communications, Navigation and Surveillance
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ACNUSA Autorité de Contrôle des Nuisances Sonores Aéroportuaires (FR)
ACPSC Advisory Committee on Procurement and Sales Contracts (Commission consultative des marchés d'achat et
de vente (CCMAV))
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ACPT ACcePT(ed)
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ACS Area Control Surveillance
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ACS Aircraft Call Sign
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ACs Analysis Classes
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ACS Advanced Communication System (EEC)
ACT ACTive
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ACTF Aeronautical Charting Task Force (Équipe spéciale sur la cartographie aéronautique)
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ACW AntiClockWise
AD Aerodrome
AD Anno Domini
AD Air Defence
AD Architectural Design
AD Airspace Data Ops Team (Équipe « Exploitation des données d'espace aérien »)
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AD Airworthiness Directive
AD Airspace Design
AD Add/Delete (flag)
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Ada Name of a high-order computer programming language (not an acronym)
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ADAA Automatic Data Access Arrangement
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ADAGES Action Plan Definition on the Basis of Architecture studies from GAAS for EATMS / Définition d'un plan
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d'action pour l'EATMS sur la base des études d'architecture du projet GAAS
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ADD; ADDF Average delay per delayed flight (Retard moyen par vol retardé)
ADDN ADDitioN(al)
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ADDR Address
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ADE Expatriation allowance (Allocation de dépaysement)
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ADE Autonomous Display Equipment
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ADEG ATS Data Exchange Group
ADHDF Average delay per highly delayed flight (Retard moyen par vol fortement retardé)
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ADJ ADJacent
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ADM Administrative / Administration
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ADM ATFM Delay per Movement (Retard ATFM par mouvement)
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ADM Administration Identifier
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ADM ADMinistration (system or bureau)
ADMAR Abgesetzte Darstellung von MADAP Radar- und Flugplandaten (DE) / Remote display of MADAP radar data /
Affichage déporté des données radar du MADAP
ADOS Airspace Data Operations Support (former FDOD/ADS Section, after reorganisation renamed DSU)
ADOT Airspace Data Operations Team (former FDOD/ADS/SOS, after reorganisation renamed ADOU
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ADP/APRN Aéroports de Paris/Direction de l'aménagement et des programmes/Unité prestations navigation aérienne
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ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
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ADPS Aeronautical Data Processing Systems
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ADPSG ATM Procedures Development Sub-Group
ADQ IR
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Aeronautical Data Quality and Information Implementing Rule / Implementing Rule on Aeronautical Data and
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Information Quality
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ADS-R Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Report
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ADS-SG CHIEF Airspace Design Subgroup (Sous-groupe "Conception de l'espace aérien CHIEF")
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ADSEL Address Selective SSR System (UK)
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ADSEL ADdress SELective (Secondary Radar forerunner of Mode-S, UK)
ADSS ADS and data link surveillance (ADS et surveillance par liaison de données)
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ADZ Advise
AE Antenna
AE Authorisation d'engagement
AE ATM Engineering
AE Application Entity
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AECMA Association Européenne des Constructeurs de Matériel Aéronautique - European Association of Aerospace
Equipment Manufacturers
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AEF Alternating Electric Field
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AEFMP Algeria, Spain, France, Morocco, Portugal Project
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AEG-TFK AEG-Telefunken
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AEGIS Airborne Early Warning Ground Environment Integrated Segment
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ATM European Group for the Improvement of (ATC) Scenarios (Groupe européen chargé de l'amélioration
des scénarios (ATC) dans le domaine de l'ATM)
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AEM Airports and Environment Management (Gestion des aéroports et de l'environnement)
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AEM BD Airports & Environment Management Business Division (EUROCONTROL - DAS Business Directorate)
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AENA Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (ES) / Spanish Airport and Air navigation Administration
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AF Air Force
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AF Audio Frequency (VCS)
AF Analysis filter
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AF Adjustment Factor
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AF Assured Forwarding
AFAS
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Aircraft in the Future ATM System (Aéronefs dans le futur système ATM)
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AFAST Active Final Approach Spacing Tool
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AFCAC African Civil Aviation Commission (Commission Africaine de l'Aviation Civile, CAFAC)
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AFG-TF Advisory Financial Group - Task Force on the Audit and Control Boards
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AFM Aircraft Flight Manual
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AFM Autonomous Flight Management
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AFM AFfirMative, Yes, That is Correct
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AFMS Advanced Flight Management System
AFN BD Airspace/Flow Management & Navigation Business Division (Division prestataire "Espace aérien / gestion des
courants de trafic aérien et navigation")
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AFTN Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network (Réseau du service fixe des télécommunications
aéronautiques)
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AFW Area Flows Window
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AG Address Ground DTE
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AGA Aerodromes, Air Routes and Ground Aids
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AGADE Automated Air/Ground Data Interchange
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(High-Level) Action Group for ATM Safety (Groupe d'action européen de haut niveau pour la sécurité de
l'ATM)
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AGAS ICG AGAS Implementation Coordination Group
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AGAT Advisory Group for ATM Training (Groupe consultatif pour la formation ATM)
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AGC Air-Ground Cooperative Air Traffic Services (Services de la circulation aérienne en coopération air-sol)
AGC SRC Ad Hoc Group of Commissioners (Groupe ad hoc des commissaires de la SRC)
AGCFG Air-Ground Communications Focus Group (Groupe de réflexion sur les communications air-sol)
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AGL Above Ground Level
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AGLAE Air-Ground Data Link Applications Experimentation (FR)
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AGN Agenda
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AGN AGaiN
AGR Agreement
AGY Agency
AH Artificial Horizon
AH Application Header
AHEAD Automation and Harmonisation of European Aeronautical Data (Automatisation et harmonisation des données
aéronautiques européennes)
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AI Attitude Indicator
AI Artificial Intelligence
AI Aeronautical Information
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AIAE International Association of the Former Officials of EUROCONTROL (Association internationale des anciens
d'EUROCONTROL)
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AIB Aeronautical Information Bureau
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AIB Aeronautical Information Bulletin (EAD)
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AIBT Actual In-Block Time
AICG ACAS Implementation Coordination Group (Groupe de coordination de la mise en oeuvre de l'ACAS)
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AIP Aeronautical Information Publication (Publication d'information aéronautique)
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AIP Administrative Incentive Pricing
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staff)
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AIPN Appointing authority / Autorité investie du pouvoir de nomination
AIR AIRworthiness
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AIR 4653 Aerospace Information Report 4653 (Flight Management Systems Review)
AIRAC Aeronautical Information Regulation and Control (Régularisation et contrôle de la diffusion des
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renseignements aéronautiques)
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AIS AHEAD Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) Automation and Harmonisation of European Aeronautical Data
(AHEAD) Programme (Programme d'automatisation et d'harmonisation des données aéronautiques
européennes pour les Services d'information aéronautique)
AIS-AIMSG AIS-AIM Study Group (Aeronautical Information Services-Aeronautical Information Management Study Group
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AISC Aeronautical Mobile Communications System Panel
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AISG AIS Automation Working Group (ICAO)
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AISOPS AIS Operations
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AISP Aeronautical Information Service Provider
AIST; AIS Team Aeronautical Information Service Team (Groupe "Services d'information aéronautique")
AITF ANSB Institutional Task Force / Équipe spéciale de l'ANSB sur les questions institutionnelles
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AIXM Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (Modèle d'échange des informations aéronautiques)
AK data AcKnowledge
AL Albania
AL Alerting Service
AL Assurance Level
AL Aircraft Label
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ALC Automatic Level Control
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ALCC Airlift Central Coordination Centre
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ALCM Air Launched Cruise Missile
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ALD Airlift Division
ALDA
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Agency Library Documentation and Archives (Service des bibliothèques, de la documentation et des archives
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de l'Agence)
ALENA Accord de libre-échange pour l'Amérique du Nord / North American Free Trade Agreement (=NAFTA)
ALFA ACI Association des Aéroports de Langue Française Associés à l'Airports Council International
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ALLPIRG All Planning and Implementation Regional Group ((Réunion de) tous les Groupes régionaux de planification et
de mise en oeuvre)
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ALT Altitude
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ALT Airborne Link Terminal
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ALT Alanine Transaminase (GOT)
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ALTRV Altitude Reservation System
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ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
AM Airspace Management
AM Armenia
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AM Amplitude Modulation
AM Arrival Manager
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AM Attribute Modification
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AM Analysis Model
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AMCP Aeronautical Mobile Communication Panel (ICAO)
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AMCs Acceptable Means of Compliance
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AMD Administrative Management Domain
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AMD AMenD(ed) (meteo message)
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AMOS ARTAS Maintenance and Operational Support (Appui à l'exploitation et à la maintenance de l'ARTAS)
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AMP Amplifier
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AMP Airborne Monitoring Project
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AMPII Airspace Management Plan 2
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AMPS American Mobile Phone System
AMRUFRA Amsterdam-Ruhr-Frankfurt
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AN Adjacent Not tracked
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AN1 Access Node 1 (old name, see ANg1)
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AN3 Access Node 3
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ANA Birth grant/birth allowance (Allocation de naissance)
ANCAT Abatement of Nuisances Caused by Air Transport (Groupe d'experts de) l'atténuation des nuisances du
transport aérien) (ECAC environmental policy committee (ENVAL)
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ANP Air Navigation Plan
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ANP Aircraft Noise and Performance
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ANS Air Navigation Service(s)
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ANS ANSwer
ANSB Air Navigation Services Board (Conseil des services de navigation aérienne)
ANSB BPTF Air Navigation Services Board Business Planning Task Force
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ANSEP Air Navigation Services Economics Panel (ICAO) / Groupe d'experts sur l'économie des services de
navigation aérienne
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Ant ANTenna
AO Airport Operations
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AO Arrival Operations
AO Airlines Operator
AO Airport Operator
AO ATM Operations
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AOB Air Order of Battle
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AOB Any Other Business
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AOBT Actual Off-Block Time
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AOC Automatic Overload Control
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AOF Allocation of Functions
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AOF AIS Office (Bureau AIS) (EAD)
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AOFG; OFG ATM Operational Focus Group; Operational Focus Group
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AoI Area of Interest
AOLC Aircraft Operators Liaison Cell (Cellule de liaison des exploitants d'aéronefs)
AOPG Aerodrome Operations Group (ICAO) / Groupe sur l'exploitation technique des aérodromes
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AOS Airport Operations Strategy Drafting Group
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AOS Astech Office Suite
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AOU Aircraft Operator Unit (CFMU)
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AOWIR Aircraft Operator What-If Re-routing / Outil de Simulation des Réacheminements destiné aux exploitants
d'aéronefs
AP Associated Press
AP Auto-Pilot
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AP Application Process
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AP AirPort
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AP Address/Parity
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APATSI Airport / Air Traffic Systems Interface (ECAC) / Interface Services d'Aéroport (one of the EATCHIP task
forces)
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APCH Approach
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APD Activity Predictor Display
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APDCSG; APDSG ATM Procedures Development Sub-Group (Sous-groupe "Mise au point des procédures ATM")
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APDSG ATM Procedures Development Sub-Group
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APDU Application Protocol Data Unit
APN Airspace, Network Planning & Navigation (Espace aérien, planification du réseau et navigation)
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APP Approach
APP-ASS Approach-Assistant
App. Appendix
APPA SG ATFM Policies and Principles Advisory Sub-Group (Sous-groupe consultatif sur les principes et lignes d'action
en matière d'ATFM)
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APPAG ATFM Policies and Principles Advisory Group
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APPC Application Programme to Programme Communication
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APPC Advanced Program to Program Communications
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APPN Advanced Peer to peer Networking
Apr APRil
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Airport Operations Programme (Programme d'exploitation des aéroports)
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APR Automatic Position Reporting
APRX APpRoXimate(ly)
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APT Airport(s)
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APTS AirPorTS
APV APproVed(al)
AQ Air Quality
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AQAP Allied Quality Assurance Publication
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AQG Agency Quality Group
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AR Air Route
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AR Approval Required
AR Automatic Reminder
ARC 2000 Automatic Radar Control for the 21st Century (CEE)
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ARCH Archives and Quality Control System (CFMU) (Base de données d'archives pour le contrôle de la qualité, les
statistiques et la planification ATFM)
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ARDA Aviation R&D Activities (Activités de recherche-développement dans le domaine aéronautique)
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ARDEP Analysis of Research & Development in European Programmes (Analyse des activités de recherche-
développement dans les programmes d'EUROCONTROL)
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ARDM Airspace Regulation, Design and Management (Réglementation, organisation et gestion de l'espace aérien)
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ARDRS Automatic Radar Data Recording System
ARDS ATM architecture and overall system engineering (Architecture et conception générales du système ATM)
ARH Architecture
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ARIBA ATM system safety criticality Raised Issues in Balancing Actors Responsibility
ARINC 413A Guidance For Aircraft Power Utilisation And Transient Protection
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ARINC 421 Guidance For Standard Subdivision of ATA Spec 100 Numbering System for Avionics
ARINC 422 Guidance For Modification Status Indicators & Avionics Service Bulletins
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ARINC 541 Airborne Magnetic Flight Data Recorder
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ARINC 542 Airborne Oscillograph Flight Data Recorder
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ARINC 551 Airborne Glide Slope Receiver - Mark 2
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ARINC 557 Airborne Voice Recorder
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ARINC 604 Guidance For Design And Use Of built-In Test Equipment (BITE)
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ARINC 605 Users Guide For ARINC 616 Avionics Subset Of ATLAS Language
ARINC 606 Guidance For Electrostatic Sensitive Device Utilisation & Protection, Sup. 1
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ARINC 608 Standard Modular Avionics Repair And Test System (SMART)
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ARINC 609 Design Guidance For Aircraft Electrical Power Systems
ARINC 610 Guidance For Design and Integration of Aircraft Avionics Equipment In Simulators, Supplement 1
ARINC 611
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Guidance For The Design and Installation Of Fuel Quantity Systems, Sup. 1
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ARINC 612 BITE Glossary
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ARINC 613 Guidance for Using the Ada Programming Language in Avionics Systems
ARINC 620 Data Link Ground System Standard And Interface Specification
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ARINC 627 Programmers Guide For Smart Systems Using ARINC 626 ATLAS
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ARINC 714 Mark 3 Airborne SELCAL Systems
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ARINC 715 Airborne Passenger Address Amplifier
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ARINC 717 Flight Data Acquisition And Recording System
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ARINC 718 Mark 3 ATC Transponder
ARINC 720
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Digital Frequency/Function Selection for Airborne
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ARINC 722 Electronic Equipment Protection Video System
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ARINC 732 Mark 2 Airborne Passenger Audio Entertainment Tape Reproducer, Supplement 1
ARINC 735 Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), Supplement 1
ARINC 741P1 Aviation Satellite Communication System Part I - Aircraft Installation Provisions
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ARINC 741P4 Aviation Satellite Communications System Part 4 - Specification and Description Language
ARINC 742 Design Guidance For Windshear Warning and Guidance Equipment
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ARINC 747 Flight Data Recorder
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ARINC 748 Communications Management Unit (CMU)
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ARINC 751 Gate-Aircraft Terminal Environment Link (Gatelink) - Aircraft Side
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ARINC 752 TFTS Airborne Radio Sub-System
ARM Armenia
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ARN-1 (Table) Basic ATS Route Network in the Lower and Upper Airspace
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ARN-2 (Table) Radio Navigation Aids Associated with the Basic ATS Route Network Terminal Area and Instrument Approach
Procedures
ARNG ARraNGe
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ARO Air Traffic Services Reporting Office
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AROS Aeronautical Reporting Office
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ARP Air RePort (message type designator)
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ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARP/TF Task Force on Arrangements and Regulatory Processes governing the Route Charges System under the
revised Convention (Équipe spéciale sur le cadre institutionnel et les processus de réglementation qui régiront
le Système de redevances de route sous le régi
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ARPL ADEXP repetitive flight plan message (Message de plan de vol répétitif ADEXP)
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ARST ARreSTing
ARTAS ATM Surveillance Tracker and Server System (Système de poursuite et serveur radar ATC)
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ARTAS TF ARTAS Task Force
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ARTAS/CAM OS ATM Surveillance Tracker and Server / Central ARTAS Maintenance and Operational Support
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ARTEMIS Advanced Relay and Technology Mission Satellite
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Artemis An ESA experimental telecommunications satellite hosting an EGNOS navigation transponder
ARTF
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Administrative Reform Task Force (Équipe spéciale sur la réforme administrative)
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ARTS Area Radar Training Squadron (US)
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ARWG Administrative Reform Working Group (Groupe de travail sur la réforme administrative)
AS Airborne Surveillance
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AS Airspace
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AS Anti-Spoofing
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AS Altimeter Settings
AS Airspeed
AS Application Services
as AltoStratus
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ASAG Automated Support to ATS Focus Group
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ASAP Advanced System Architecture for Postscript
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ASAP Aircraft Separation Assurance Programme
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ASAP Alternative Slot Allocation Procedure
ASATC Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Control project (Projet "Sécurité de l'aviation et contrôle du trafic aérien")
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ASC Ascending
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ASDAR Aircraft to Satellite Data Relay
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ASDE Airport Surveillance Detection Equipment
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ASDE Airfield Surface Detection Equipment
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ASDIC Anti-Submarine Detection & Identification Committee
ASECNA Agency for the safety of air navigation in Africa and Madagascar (Agence pour la Sécurité de la Navigation
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ASIT Administration & Services of Information Technologies (Administration et prestation des services IT)
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ASM Airspace Management (Gestion de l'espace aérien)
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ASM ASsuMe (control)
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ASM SG Airspace Management Sub-Group (Sous-groupe "Gestion de l'espace aérien")
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ASM-HB Airspace Management Handbook
ASM-SG Airspace Management Subgroup (EATM) (Sub-Group of ANT) / Sous-groupe "Gestion de l'espace aérien"
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ASP Actual Surveillance Performance
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ASP Aeronautical Surveillance Panel
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ASP ATM Service Provider
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ASP Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP) as written in ECIP
ASPH ASPHalt
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ASRO Agency Safety Regulatory Oversight Unit (Unité de supervision réglementaire de la sécurité de l'Agence)
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ASSA Airport surface situational awareness
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ASSAP Airborne Surveillance and Separation Assistance Processing
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ASSIST Acknowledge, Separate, Silence, Inform, Support and Time (Accuser réception, Séparer, faire le Silence,
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Informer, Soutenir et laisser du Temps)
ASTERIX All-purpose Structured EUROCONTROL Surveillance Information Exchange (formerly "All-purpose Structured
EUROCONTROL Radar Information Exchange")
AT Air Transport
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AT Adjacent Tracked
AT Aircraft Type
AT Active Target
AT At Time
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AT Actual Time countdown
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AT-SAT Air Traffic Selection and Training (US)
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AT2 Active Target 2
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AT3 Active Target 3
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ATCgram Illustration in graph form of the main functional levels of ATC systems
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ATCI Air Traffic Control Instructions
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ATCITP ATC Instructor Training Plan
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ATCO Air Traffic Control Organisation
ATCO Air Traffic Control Officer, Air Traffic Controller (Contrôleur de la circulation aérienne)
ATCS Air Traffic Control Service / Service du Contrôle du Trafic Aérien (=SCTA)
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ATFC Air Traffic Flow Controller (Contrôleur-régulateur des courants de trafic aérien)
ATFCM Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management (Gestion des courants de trafic aérien et de la capacité)
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ATFM Air Traffic Flow Management (Gestion des courants de trafic aérien)
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ATFMU Air Traffic Flow Management Unit
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ATFR Air Traffic Flow Regulator
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ATG At The Glass
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ATG Air Traffic Generator
ATIC Administrative and Technical Inspection Committee (Agency structure) / Mission d'Inspection administrative et
technique (=MIAT)
ATILO Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization / Tribunal Administratif de l'Organisation
internationale du Travail (=TAOIT)
O
ATM 2000 + ATM Strategy for the years 2000+ (Stratégie de la gestion de la circulation aérienne pour les années 2000+)
ATM R&D RG European ATM Research and Development Programme Review Group
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Acronym Full form
ATM2000 EUROCONTROL Air Traffic Management Strategy for the years 2000+
L
ATMB/CRV Agency ATM Content Review Division
IA
ATMB/CRV/FRM Flexible Resource Management (ATMB)
R
ATMC Frankfurt FMU
AI
ATMC Airspace & Traffic Management Centre, (Frankfurt)
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Acronym Full form
L
ATO Actual Time Over
IA
ATO Airborne Traffic Observation
R
ATO Air Traffic Organization (FAA)
AI
ATOBIA Air Transport Operators Benefit Incentive Analysis
ATOCC L
Air Transportation Operations Consultation Committee (Canada)
O
ATOP Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures
Page 54
Acronym Full form
L
ATSA-AIRB Air Traffic Situational Awareness Airborn
IA
ATSA-ITP Air Traffic Situation Awareness - In Trail Procedure
R
ATSA-SVA AS application - Enhanced successive visual approaches
AI
ATSA-VSA Air Traffic Situational Awareness Visual Separation on Approach
Page 55
Acronym Full form
ATT Attitude
ATTAS Advanced Technologies Testing Aircraft System (Banc d'essais volant destiné à l'étude des technologies de
pointe applicables aux avions civils)
ATTN ATTentioN
L
ATW Along Track Waypoint
IA
ATWR Apron TWR
R
ATX Actual Time Of Exit (of aircraft from AIRSPACE_VOLUME)
AI
ATYP Aircraft TYPe
AU Arbitrary Unit L
O
AU Air Navigation Unit
AU Access Unit
TR
AU Airspace User
AU Administrative Unit
N
Aug AUGust
AUT AUTomatic
Page 56
Acronym Full form
AutoNav Auto-Navigation
L
AUW All Up Weight
IA
AUX AUXiliary
AV Airspace data validation team (Équipe « Validation des données d'espace aérien »)
R
AV Airspace Volume
AI
AV Audio-visual aids
AVENUE ATM Validation Environment for Use towards EATMS (Projet AVENUE (Environnement de validation ATM
pour la transition vers l'EATMS))
C
AVG Average
O
Page 57
Acronym Full form
AVSSSG Air traffic services Voice Switching and Signalling Study Group
AW Aerial Work
AW Area Width
AW Aerial Work
L
AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System / Système de détection aéroporté (=SDA) (E-3A aircraft)
IA
AWARE Ground Traffic Situation Awareness Tool
R
AWF Automatische Wahlvermittlung für die Flugsicherung
AI
AWG Area Working Group (Groupe de travail sectoriel)
AWY Airway
AX ADEXP Templates
AZ Aerodrome zone
AZ Azimuth
Page 58
Acronym Full form
AZ Aerodrome sets
B Belgium
b Byte(s)
L
B&D Bearing and Distance
IA
B&H Bosnia and Herzegovina
R
B-CAS Beacon Collision Avoidance System
AI
B-CDA Basic-Continuous Descent Approach
B-RNAV Basic Area Navigation (Navigation de surface de base) (+/- 5nm 95% of the time)
B2B Business-to-Business
R
B2C Business-to-Consumer
EU
BA tellBack Area
BA Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO Country Code)
BA Business Aviation
BA Barometric Altitude
BA British Airways
BA Braking Action
Page 59
Acronym Full form
L
BAG British Airports Group
IA
BALUN BALanced / UNbalanced
R
BAM Business Area Manager (Gestionnaire de domaine)
AI
BANC Baltic Air Navigation Cooperation
BAR Barometric
BARCS
L
CRCO computer system for bilateral charges (Système de facturation des redevances mis en place par le
O
SCRR au titre des accords bilatéraux)
BAT BATtery
EU
BC Business Continuity
BC Before Christ
Page 60
Acronym Full form
BC Basic Call
L
BCD Binary-Coded Decimal (digital coding)
IA
BCFG Fog Patches
R
BCK Back-up
AI
BCM Business Continuity Management
BCP
L
Business Continuity Plan (Plan de continuité des activités)
O
BCP Best Current Practices
TR
BCST BroadCaST
BD Border
R
Bd Baud
EU
BDL Bundesverband der Deutschen Luftverkehrswirtschaft (Federal Association of the German Air Transport
Industry)
BDRY BounDaRY
Page 61
Acronym Full form
L
BDY Boundary Point (ENV entity type, used in all CHMI)
IA
BDY BounDarY(ies) & UAC sectors
BE Belgium
R
BE Belgium (ISO Country Code)
AI
BEA Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses (France)
BEAR BEARing
L
O
BEBS Best Efficiency Best Served
TR
BELGOCONTROL Belgian Operator of Air Traffic Management, both for airport and en-route traffic
EU
BERD Banque européenne pour la reconstruction et le développement / European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (=EBRD)
BF Briefing Facilities
Page 62
Acronym Full form
BFR BeFoRe
BFU Bundesstelle für FlugunfallUntersuchung (German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation)
L
BFWG Budgetary and Financial Working Group (Groupe de travail budgétaire et financier (GTBF))
IA
BFWG-4 Budgetary and Financial Working Group (4 States)
R
BGAN Broadband Global Area Network
AI
BGD Background
BIRD Banque Internationale pour la Reconstruction et le Développement (ONU) / International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (=IBRD)
Page 63
Acronym Full form
L
BIT/s BInary digiTs (bits) per Second
IA
BITE Built-In Test Equipment
R
BKL Brussels Koksy Low
AI
BKN BroKeN
Bldg BuiLDinG
BLK BLocKed
BLNS BaLooNS
O
BLUE MED [Regional project: joint feasibility study for the establishment of Functional Airspace Blocks over the
Mediterranean ]
R
BLW BeLoW
EU
BM Business Manager
BM Basic Measurement
Page 64
Acronym Full form
BN Bayesian Network
BN Backbone Network
L
BNC Backbone Network Computer (RADNET)
IA
BNC BayoNet Locking Coax (connector)
R
BNH Brussels Nicky High
AI
BNIA Bureau national de l'informatique et d'assistance au vol
BNL Benelux
BNR Binary
N
BO Business Object
BOMB BOMBing
BP Best Practices
BP British Petroleum
BP Business Plan
Page 65
Acronym Full form
L
BPS Business Planning & Support
IA
bps Bits per second
R
BPS BD Business Planning & Support Business Division (EUROCONTROL)
AI
BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
BR Mist
BRG BeaRinG
Brief Briefing
BRKG BRaKinG
Page 66
Acronym Full form
BS British Standard
L
BS BackSpace
IA
BS Basic Strip(s)
R
BS Broadcasting Station (commercial)
AI
BS1 Incomplete Basic Strip (1) Plan
BT Bandwidth Time
BT British Telecom
BT Business Trajectory
Page 67
Acronym Full form
L
BTL BeTween Layers
IA
BTN BeTweeN
R
BTS Batch Terminal Simulator
AI
BTS Back-up Telephone System
BUP Backup
N
BW Bandwidth
BWP Budget and Work Programme Planning / Planification du Budget et du programme de travail
R
C Consumables
C Programming Language
C Confirm
C Programming Language
Page 68
Acronym Full form
C- Programming Language
L
C-DPI Cancel - DPI
IA
C-DPI Cancel-Departure Planning Information
R
C-Gate Cancel Gate (DEVD)
AI
C-SAS Cranfield Situation Awareness Scale
C102(TSO) Helicopter Radar Approach, Issued 04/02/84 (RTCA DO-172, Issued 03/83)
C104(TSO) Microwave Landing System (MLS) Receiving Equipment, Issued 06/82 (RTCA DO-174, Issued 03/82)
C105(TSO) Optional Display For Weather Radar, Issued 06/84 (RTCA DO-174, Issued 03/81)
C115(TSO) RNAV Equipment Using Multi_Sensor, Issued 06/86 (RTCA DO-187, Issued 11/84)
C118(TSO) Airborne TCAS I Equipmen4 Issued 08/88 (RTCA DO-197, Issued 3/87)
C120(TSO) RNAV Equipment Using OMEGA/VLF, Issued 01/88 (RTCA DO-185 issued 9/83)
Page 69
Acronym Full form
C31d(TSO) High Frequency (HF) Communications Transmitting Equipment, Issued 04/84 (RTCA DO-163, Issued 03/76)
C34e(TSO) ILS Glide Slope Receive Equipment, Issued 01/88 (RCTA DO-192, Issued 07/86)
C35d(TSO) Radio Marker Receiving Equipment, Issued 04/71 (RTCA DO-143, Issued 01/70)
C36e(TSO) ILS Localizer Receiver Equipment, Issued 01/88 (RTCA) DO-195, Issued 11/86)
C37d(TSO) VHF Comm transmitting Equipment, Issued 08181 (RTCA DO-157, Issued 08/81(RTCA DO_157, Issued
08/74)
L
C38c(TSO) VHF Comm Receiving Equipment; Issued 08/81 (RTCA DO-156, Issued 08/74)
IA
C38d(TSO) Receiving Equipment, Issued 08/81 (RTCA DO_186, Issued 1/84)
R
C3CM(TSO) Command, Control and Communications Countermeasures
AI
C3I Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (network)
C40c(TSO) L
Airborne VOR Receiving Equipment, Issued 01/88 (RTCA DO-1996, Issued 11/86)
O
C41d(TSO) Airborne ADF Equipment, Issued 05/86 (RTCA DO-179, Issued 05/82)
C50c(TSO) Audio Selector Panel and Amps, Issued 01/83 (RTCA DO-170, Issued 01/80)
C57a(TSO) Headsets And Speakers, Issued 01/83 (RTCA DO-170, Issued 01/80)
N
C59 Selective Calling (SELCAL) Equipment, Issued 01/01 (RTCA DO-93, Issued 2/59)
C
C60b RNAV Equipment Using LORAN -C, Issued 05/88 (RTCA DO-194, Issued 11/86)
O
C63c Airborne Weather Radar, Issued 08/83 (RTCA DO-173 Issued 11/80)
C65a Doppler Radar Air Speed Equipment, Issued 08/83 (RTCA DO-158, Issued 11/75)
R
C66b Airborne DME (Distance Measuring Equipment), Issued 08/81 (RTCA DO-1514, Issued 04/60)
EU
C67 Airborne Radar Altimeters, Issued 11/64 (RTCA DO-103, Issued 4/60)
C68a Dead Reckoning Computer Equipment, Issued 08/83 (RTCA DO-158, Issued 10/75)
C74e Airborne ATC Transponder Equipment, Issued 01/01 (RTCA DO 161A, Issued 05/76)
C87a Low Range Radar Altimeters, Issued 01/01 (RTCA DO-155, Issued 01/74)
C91a Emergency Locator Transmitter, Issued 04/85 (RTCA DO-183, Issued 5/83)
C92b Ground Proximity Warning (GPWS) Equipment, 01/01 (RTCA DO-161A, Issued 05/76)
C94a OMEGA Receiving Equipment, Issued 08/81 (RTCA DO-164A, Issued 09/79)
CA Count Area
CA Civil Aviation
CA Conflict Alert
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Acronym Full form
CA Circulation aérienne
CA Certificate of Airworthiness
CA Computer Associates
CA Command Area
CA Capability
L
CAA Computer Aided Analysis
IA
CAA Civil Aviation Authority (Autorité de l'aviation civile) (UK)
R
CAAS Common Aeronautical Address Form
AI
CAAS Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore
CADF Centralised Airspace Data Function (ECAC) (Fonction de centralisation des données concernant l'espace
aérien de la CEAC)
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Acronym Full form
CAERAF Common American-European Reference ATN Facility / Dispositif ATN de Référence commun pour les Etats-
Unis et l'Europe
CAFAC Commission Africaine de l'Aviation Civile (African Civil Aviation Commission, AFCAC)
L
CAFO Committee on Air traffic management and Flight Operations
IA
CAG Circulation aérienne générale (General Air Traffic (GAT))
R
CAGR compound annual growth rate
AI
CAI Civil Aviation Inspection
CAIA Collaborative Airline Interface to CFMU (Interface conjointe des compagnies aériennes avec le CFMU)
CALLSGN Callsign
Page 72
Acronym Full form
CAMES Cooperative ATM Measures for a European Single Sky (Mesures de coopération ATM pour un ciel européen
unique)
CAMOS Centralised ARTAS Maintenance & Operational Support (appui centralisé à l'exploitation et à la maintenance
de l'ARTAS)
L
CAMUS Czech Automated Multi radar System
IA
CAN Contract Award Notice
CAN CANcel
R
CAN Proj. Croatian Air Navigation Project
AI
CANAC Computer Assisted National ATC Centre (B)
CAP CAPacitor
CAP Capacity
Page 73
Acronym Full form
CAPOC Pensions Administrative Committee of the Coordinated Organisations (Comité d'Administration des pensions
des Organisations Coordonnées)
L
CAPS CEATS ANS Providers Support
IA
CAPSIN Civil Aviation Packet Switching Integrated Network (UK)
R
CAPST Cooperative Area Precision Tracking System
AI
CAPT Coverage Analysis and Planning Tool
CARDS Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation (Assistance communautaire pour la
EU
CARFE Conference on Airport and Route Facility Economics (ICAO) / Conference sur la gestion des aéroports et des
installations et services de route
Page 74
Acronym Full form
CASA Computer-Assisted Slot Allocation (Allocation de créneaux assistée par ordinateur) (CFMU)
L
CASCADE Cooperative ATS through Surveillance and Communications Applications Deployed in ECAC
IA
CASE Computer-Aided Software Engineering
R
Case Case Study
AI
CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering
CAST Consequences of future ATM systems for air traffic controller Selection and Training
O
CAT Category
Page 75
Acronym Full form
L
CAT017 ASTERIX Category 017
IA
CAT018 ASTERIX Category 018
R
CAT020 ASTERIX Category 020
AI
CAT021 ASTERIX Category 021
Page 76
Acronym Full form
CATF Conformity Assessment Task Force (Équipe spéciale sur l'évaluation de la conformité)
L
CATIA Computer graphics Aided Three dimensional Interactive Applications
IA
CATIA TF on CNS/ATM Implementation Aspects
R
CATMT Collaborative Air Traffic Management Technology
AI
CATO Civil Air Traffic Operations
CAUTRA Coordinateur AUtomatique de TRafic Aérien (Automated Computer System for Air Traffic)
CB Central Battery
Cb Cumulonimbus
CBESC CFMU Building Extension Steering Committee (Comité directeur pour l'extension du bâtiment du CFMU)
Page 77
Acronym Full form
CBN Common Backbone Network (subnetwork RAPNET = system of the national ATS, DFS = PSN)
L
CBPE Computer-Based Practical Exercises
IA
CBPM Computer-Based Performance Measure
R
CBR Constant Bit Rate
AI
CBS Cost Breakdown Structure
CC Contextual Condition
O
CC Call Control
CC Cluster Controller
C
CC Clearing Cause
O
CC Change Control
R
CC Coordinator Controller
EU
CC Client Code
CC Connection Confirm
CC Cirro-Cumulus
CC UK Competition Commission
Page 78
Acronym Full form
CCAMS Centralised SSR Code Assignment and Management System (Système centralisé de gestion et d'assignation
des codes SSR)
L
CCC Command, Control and Communications
IA
CCC Coastal Coordinating Controller
R
CCC Central Computer Complex
AI
CCCB Configuration Change Control Board
CCCI L
Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (network)
O
CCD Continuous Climb Departures
CCE Commission des Communautés européennes ; Commission européenne (FR) / Commission of the European
N
CCIR Comité Consultatif International des Radiocommunications - International Radio Consultative Committee (now
ITU-R)
CCITT Comité Consultatif International Télégraphique et Téléphonique (UIT) - International Telegraph and
Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU)
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Acronym Full form
L
CCM Centre de Contrôle Militaire / Military Control Centre (=MCC)
IA
CCM Computerised Control and Monitoring
CCMAV Commission consultative des marchés d'achat et de vente (Advisory Committee on Procurement and Sales
R
Contracts)
AI
CCMB CFMU Crisis Management Board (Comité de gestion des crises du CFMU)
CCMS L
Central Claim Management System (formerly CFMU Claim Management System)
O
CCMS Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (NATO)
Page 80
Acronym Full form
CCW Counter-Clockwise
CD Council Directive
CD Call Deflection
L
CD Collision Detection
IA
CD Course to a DME Distance (ARINC 424 Path Terminator)
R
CD Compact Disc
AI
CD CanDela
Page 81
Acronym Full form
L
CDM-A CDM - Airport
IA
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
R
CDN CoorDinatioN (message type designator)
AI
CDN Airspace Crossing Coordination Message
CDPS Central Data Processing System (Système central de traitement des données)
N
CDR1 Conditional Route category 1 - Permanently plannable CDR during times published in national AIPs
CDSEPT Committee to Develop Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing of The American Educational
research Association, The American Psychological Association, and The National Council on Measurement in
Education.
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Acronym Full form
L
CE Clean Earth (Electrical connection)
IA
CE Congestion Experienced
R
CE European Commission / Commission européenne
AI
CE Conformity European
CE/R/MET/TF Task Force on the allocation of MET costs to civil aviation users (Équipe spéciale sur l'imputation des coûts
"MET" aux usagers de l'aviation civile)
CEAC Committee for European Airspace Coordination (NATO Group) renamed on 27.4.98 by the North Atlantic
O
Council (=NATMC)
CEANS Conference on the Economics of Airports and Air Navigation Services - Conférence sur l'economie des
O
CEATS UAC Central European Air Traffic Services Upper Airspace Control Centre
CEC Commission of the European Communities ; European Commission / Commission des Communautés
Européennes (=CCE) ; Commission européenne (FR)
CECAS CFMU Engineering Competency Assessment Scheme (Système d'évaluation des compétences de la Division
«Technique» du CFMU)
Page 83
Acronym Full form
CEECs Countries of Central and Eastern Europe ; Central and Eastern Europe Countries / Pays d'Europe centrale et
orientale (=PECO)
CEFA CRCO Extranet For Airspace users - (Extranet du SCRR pour les usagers de l'espace aérien)
CEFA Cooperation for Environmentally Friendly Aviation (ERA, ACI, AEA, AECMA, EBAA, EUROCAE)
L
CEFR CDTI Enhanced Flight Rules
IA
CEG Continuous Edge Graphic
R
CEG Chief Executive Group (Groupe des Administrateurs généraux)
AI
CEG CESC Executive Group (Groupe de direction de la CESC)
CEMT Conférence Européenne des Ministres des Transports / European Conference of Ministers of Transport
O
(ECMT)
CENA Centre d'études de la navigation aérienne (French air navigation study centre) (DGAC/DNA)
EU
Page 84
Acronym Full form
CESC Chief Executive Standing Conference (Conférence permanente des Présidents des Comités de direction)
L
CESNAC Centre d'Exploitation des Systèmes de la Navigation Aérienne Centraux (FR)
IA
CEST Central European Standard
R
CET Central European Time
AI
CETCOPRA Centre d'Etudes des Techniques, des Connaissances et des Pratiques - Univ. Paris I
CEU Central Executive Unit (Organe exécutif central, OEC) - old name, see OPSD
CEU (W)
L
Central Executive Unit (West) for flow management purposes
O
CEU-E Central executive unit with Responsibility for Eastern Europe / Organe executive central pour l'Europe de l'Est
(=OEC-Est)
TR
CEU-W Central executive unit with Responsibility for Western Europe / Organe exécutif central pour l'Europe
Occidentale (=OEC-Ouest)
N
CF Coordination Function
R
CF Control Function
EU
CF Control Field
CF Control Functions
CFC ChloroFluoroCarbon
Page 85
Acronym Full form
L
CFG Configuration
IA
CFG CEATS Financial Group (Groupe financier CEATS)
R
CFI Court of First Instance of the European Communities
AI
CFI Customer Furnished Inputs
CFMU Central Flow Management Unit (Organisme central de gestion des courants de trafic aérien) (NB - No longer
O
CFMUSC CFMU Steering Committee (NB - No longer used; now replaced by DNM)
R
Page 86
Acronym Full form
CGE General Conditions of Employment governing servants at the EUROCONTROL Maastricht Centre (Conditions
générales d'emploi des Agents du Centre EUROCONTROL à Maastricht)
CGFSNE Comité de gestion du Fonds social pour le non-emploi (Unemployment Fund Management Committee
(UFMC))
L
CGRAM Comité de Gestion du Régime Assurance Maladie (=SIMC)
IA
CGRC Consultative Group on Route Charges
R
CGS Communication Ground Segment
AI
CGSO CEATS Group of Senior Officials (Groupe de hauts fonctionnaires des CEATS)
CH CHannel
L
O
CH SVC CHannel number
TR
CHA Character
Chap. Chapter
O
CHASEIT Collabotative Harmonisation of Architecture, System Engineering and Integration Techniques (internal
R
EUROCONTROL Agency)
CHIEF Project Switzerland (CH), Italy (IT), Spain (ES), France (FR)
Page 87
Acronym Full form
CI Call Intrusion
CI Configuration Item
Ci CIrrus
L
CIA CFMU Internet Access
IA
CIA Change Impact Assessment
R
CIA CFMU Internet Application (Application Internet du CFMU)
AI
CIAAIC Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación Civil
CIAM
L
Collaboration Interface for Airspace Management
O
CIAO Collaboration Interface for AO
TR
CIDIN Common ICAO Data Interchange Network (Réseau OACI commun d'échange de données)
CIGS Ceilings
Page 88
Acronym Full form
CIMSEL Civil-Military SSR Environment Liaison Group (Groupe de liaison civil-militaire pour l'infrastructure SSR)
L
CINDI Core IT Novel Development Infrastructure
IA
CINT Call Interception
R
CIO Coastal Input Operator
AI
CIO Conventional International Origin
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States (States of former USSR) / Communauté des Etats indépendants
(=CEI)
CISC Corporate Information Systems Committee (Comité pour les systèmes d'information de l'Agence)
Page 89
Acronym Full form
CISM Critical Incident Stress Management (Gestion du stress en cas d'incident critique) (HRT)
L
CIU Cabin Interface Unit
IA
CIV Civil
R
CIV/MIL TF CIVil/MILitary Task Force on mode S
AI
CJCE Cour de justice des Communautés européennes ; Cour de justice européenne / Court of Justice of The
European Communities (=CJEC, COJEC)
CJEC L
Court of Justice of the European Communities (=CJEC, COJEC now European Court of Justice) / Cour de
justice des Communautés européennes ; Cour de justice européenne (=CJCE)
O
CJI Controller Justification Indicator
TR
CK ChecK
CL Cleared
O
CL Cluster
CL Centre Line
C
CL Connectionless
R
CL Controlled Load
EU
CL CLock
CL Climb
CL Code Label
CLA CLA procedure, CRCO claim (CLA) procedure (Procédure CLA, procédure de réclamation)
CLBR CaLiBRation
Page 90
Acronym Full form
CLD CLouD
CLG CaLlinG
L
CLIMAX Multi-station carrier offset mode, with voting override
IA
CLIMAX Offset carrier system for VHF voice communications
R
CLIR Calling/Connected Line Identification Restriction
AI
CLK CLocK system
cm centimeter
CM Conformance Monitoring
CM Conflict Management
Page 91
Acronym Full form
CMB CliMB
L
CMC Constant Mach Climb
IA
CMC CIDIN Management Centre
R
CMCES Comité Minstériel de Coordination Economique et Social (FR)
AI
CMCSG Civil and Military Coordination Sub-Group
CMD Command
L
O
CMDE Channel Micro-code Device Exerciser
TR
CMIDS CFMU Meteorological Information Display System (Système de visualisation des informations
météorologiques)
Page 92
Acronym Full form
L
CMOT CMip Over Tcp/ip
IA
CMP Configuration Management Plan
R
CMPL CoMPLete(d), CoMPLetion
AI
CMR Cell Misinsertion Rate
CMTP Common Medium Term Plan (EUROCONTROL) / Plan commun à moyen terme (=PCMT)
CMUE Comité militaire de l'Union européenne / European Union Military Committee EMUC
Page 93
Acronym Full form
CN Corporate Network
CN Correspondent Node
CN Change Notice
CN Connectivity Notification
L
CNAA Competent National Aviation Authority
IA
CNACC Common National Area Control Centre
R
CNATCC Common National Air Traffic Control Centre (Bulgaria)
AI
CNAV Future GPS Navigation Message Structure (adopted for L5)
CND
L
Cooperative Network Design (Conception d'un réseau coopératif)
O
CND/CMF CND Central Management Functions/ Fonctions centrales de gestion (CND)
TR
CNS Study Group of the Civil and Military Alternates to the Members of the Permanent Commission (Study Group
of Alternates) (Groupe d'étude des Membres suppléants civils et militaires de la Commission permanente
(Groupe d'étude des Suppléants))
Page 94
Acronym Full form
CNS ContiNuouS
CNS/ATM Communications, Navigation, Surveillance and Air Traffic Management (communications, navigation et
surveillance/gestion du trafic aérien)
CNT Count
CO Central Office
L
CO Connection Mode Service
IA
CO COllapsing
R
CO Call Offer
AI
CO Connection Oriented
COBALT L
Common Objective Alignment Team (EATCHIP Adaptation)
O
COBIT Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
CODA Central Office for Delay Analysis (Service central d'analyse des retards de trafic)
Page 95
Acronym Full form
L
COFLIGHT French/Italian/Swiss cooperative development of a new Flight Data Processing System
IA
COFM Conference Facilities Management System (Système de gestion des salles de conférences)
R
COHO Coherent Oscillator
AI
COHOR Association française des coordonnateurs d'aéroport (FR)
COI COIL
COLL Collapse
N
Page 96
Acronym Full form
L
COMG Communications Group
IA
COMIL ATS Coordination Centre for Military Airspace Use (D)
COMIL-1N ATS Coordination Centre for Military Airspace Utilisation - Phase 1 Network
R
COMLAN COMmunication Local Area Network
AI
COMM-A uplink SLM protocol
COMNAV Groupe de travail sur les Télécommunications et les installations de navigation (CEAC)
N
COMP Competency
O
CON CONnector
CON CONsole
CONC CONCrete
Page 97
Acronym Full form
COND CONDition
CONF Conference
CONF Conflict
L
CONOPS Concept of Operations
IA
CONP Connected Name Identification Presentation
R
CONS Connection-Oriented Network Service
AI
CONST CONSTructed, CONSTruction
CONT Continue
CONT CONTinue(d)
L
O
Cont'd Continued
TR
CONV CONVerter
N
COO Coordinator
O
COOPANS Cooperation between LFV (SV), Naviair, Irish Aviation Authority and Thales ATM
C
COORD Coordination
R
COORD CooRDinated
EU
COP (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)
COR Correct
COR Correlate
Page 98
Acronym Full form
COR CORrelate(ion)
L
CORC CEU Ops Room Contingency
IA
CorC Computer language
R
CORE Controlled Requirements Expression
AI
CORE CORE Requirements for ATM Working Positions
CORTA Cellule d'Organisation et de Régulation du Trafic Aérien (ATMC French equivalent) (FR)
O
COSAAC Common Simulator to Assess ATFM Concepts (Simulateur commun d'évaluation des concepts ATFM)
COSIBA Common Simulation for the Balkans (Projet de simulation commune pour les Balkans)
COSPAS Cosmicheskaya Sistyema Poiska Avariynich Sudov (RU) Space System for the Search of Vessels in Distress
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L
COTRAC Common Trajectory Coordination
IA
COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf (software)
R
COTS Connection-mode Transport Service (ICAO Doc 9578-AN/935)
AI
COV COVer(ing), COVered e.g. by snow, ice
CP Change Proposal
CP Central Processor
N
CP Current position
O
CP City Pair
CP Crédits de paiement
C
CP Connecting Point
R
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Acronym Full form
CPDLC Controller-Pilot Data Link Communications (Communications contrôleur-pilote par liaison de données)
L
CPG Cosine Policy Group
IA
CPG Curtain Path Generator
R
CPI Californian Psychological Inventory
AI
CPI Call Priority Interrupt
Page 101
Acronym Full form
CPT Cockpit
L
CPU Central Processor Unit
IA
CPU Central Processing Unit
R
CPWG Contingency Plan Working Group
AI
CPWS Cooperative Pedestrian Warning System
CR Call Related
N
CR Central Region
O
CR Carriage Return
CR Common Requirement
C
CR Committed Rate
O
CR Change Request
CRAMI Centro de Retransmisión Automática de Mensajes Integrado (ES) / Automatic Messages Retransmission
Integrated Center
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Acronym Full form
CRCO Central Route Charges Office (Service central des redevances de route (SCRR))
L
CRDS Colour Raster Scan Display
IA
CRDS CEATS Research, Development and Simulation Centre (Centre CEATS de recherche, développement et
simulation)
R
CREDOS Crosswind Reduced Separations for Departure Operations
AI
CREME Creating the EATCHIP Management Environment (EATCHIP Adaptation)
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Acronym Full form
CRZ CRuise
CS Collapsed Sector
Cs Cirro-Stratus
L
CS Centre Supervisor (Superviseur de Centre)
IA
CS Community Specification
CS Control Segment
R
CS Circuit Switch
AI
CS Cesium
CS Communcation Systems
CS Czechoslovakia
L
O
CS Carrier Sense
TR
CS or C/S CallSign
Page 104
Acronym Full form
CSCE Conférence sur la Sécurité et la Coopération en Europe / Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
(=CSCE)
L
CSD Context and Scope Document
IA
CSDC Circuit Switched Digital Capability
R
CSDN Circuit Switched Digital Network
AI
CSDT Context and System Domain Team
CSM BD Communication & Surveillance Management Business Division (EUROCONTROL - DAS Business
Directorate)
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Acronym Full form
CSPDU CEATS Strategic Planning and Development Unit (Organisme de planification stratégique et de
développement des CEATS)
L
CSR Customer Service Requests (NOG - database for DPN operators)
IA
CSR Cursor
R
CSRC Contents Source Identifiers
AI
CSS Call Sign Similarity
Page 106
Acronym Full form
CT Call Transfer
L
CT Communication
IA
CT Control Tower
CT Core Tasks
R
CT Centre (select)
AI
CT Core Team
CT1
L
offline predefined radar window centre point [1]
O
CT1 Centre Definition1 (N-FDPS)
TR
Page 107
Acronym Full form
CTC ConTaCt
L
CTE Calculated Time Of Entry (of aircraft into AIRSPACE_VOLUME)
IA
CTF Communication Task Force (EATCHIP)
R
CTG Challenges to Growth
AI
CTG Common Training Group (of AISAP)
CTN CauTioN
C
CTR Control
Page 108
Acronym Full form
CTRL Control
L
CTWUEC Committe of Transport Workers' Unions in the European Community (now FST Federation of Transport
Workers' Unions in the European Union = acronym formed from its French title)
IA
CTX Calculated Time Of Exit (of aircraft into AIRSPACE_VOLUME)
R
Cu Cumulus
AI
CU Coupling Unit
CU Control Unit
CUAC Central European Air Traffic Services (CEATS) Upper Area Control Centre (Centre de contrôle de région
TR
CUF CUmuliForm
CUST CUSToms
Page 109
Acronym Full form
CV Central Version
CV Curriculum Vitae
L
CVS Combined Vision System
IA
CVSD Continuous Variable Slope Delta modulation
R
CW Clockwise
AI
CW Call Waiting
CW Continuous Wave
CY Capacity
D Danger Area
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Acronym Full form
D Day
D Germany
D Display
D Distance
L
D-ATIS Data link / Digital - Automatic Terminal Information Service
IA
D-ATSU Downstream Air Traffic Service Unit
R
D-FLUP Data Link Flight Update Service
AI
D-Gate Development Gate (DEVD)
D/A Digital-to-Analog
EU
D/CFMU Director Central Flow Management Unit (Directeur de l'Organisme central de gestion des courants de trafic
aérien) (NB- No longer valid; replaced by DNM)
D/CMAC & SESI Director Civil-Military ATM Coordination and SES Implementation/ Directeur "Coordination ATM civile-militaire
et réalisation du SES"
D/CND Director Cooperative Network Design/ Directeur «Conception d'un réseau coopératif »
D/CRCO Director Central Route Charges Office (Directeur du Service central des redevances de route)
D/EEC; D/CEE Director EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre (Directeur du Centre expérimental d'EUROCONTROL)
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Acronym Full form
DA Decision Altitude
DA Default Addresses
DA Data acquisition
DA Data Authority
DA Direct Access
L
DA Decision Attitude
IA
DA Danger Area
DA Descent Adviser
R
DA Disc Assembly
AI
DA Destination Address
DA Designated Authority
L
O
DA Data Administration
TR
DA Dimensional Aspect
DAARWIN Distributed ATM Architecture based on RNAV, Workstations, Intelligent tools, and Networks
O
Page 112
Acronym Full form
L
DAI Direct Access Intercom
IA
DAI Direct Access Intercom (VCS)
R
DAIO Departures, Arrivals, Internals and Overflights
AI
DAISY Distributed Airport Information System (RUN)
DAKOS
L
Daten Kommunikationssystem (DE) / Network for German area (ex A300)
O
DAKOS/CBN DAKOS Common Backbone Network (Germany)
TR
DAP/SAF EUROCONTROL Safety Enhancement Business Division (Division prestataire "Amélioration de la sécurité"
(EUROCONTROL))
DARGNE Study Group on Designators for ATS Routes, Geographical Points and Navigation Elements (ICAO)
Page 113
Acronym Full form
L
DAS Data Facility Station (Hardware)
IA
DAS Dual-Attachment System (in optical fibre LAN rings)
R
DAS/ATS DAS/Air Traffic Services
AI
DAS/CSM DAS/Communication & Surveillance Management
DAVINCI Departure and Arrival Integrated Management System for Cooperative Improvement of Airport Traffic Flow
DB Database
dB decibel
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Acronym Full form
L
dBm decibel, referenced to 1 milliwatt
IA
DBMS Data Base/Data Bank Management System
R
DBP Deutsche Bundespost (Telecom) (DE)
AI
DBP Database EUROCONTROL Point
DC Diagnostic Code
N
DC Direct Current
O
DC District of Columbia
DC Disconnect Confirm
C
DC Device Control
O
DC Display Controller
EU
DC Device Coordinates
DCA Lietuvos Respublikos Civilines Aviacijos Direkcija (LT) / Lithuanian State Enterprise
Page 115
Acronym Full form
L
DCC Digital Compact Cassette
IA
DCC Data Country Code (CCITT X.121 Structure)
R
DCC Détachement Civil de Coordination (CRNA, France)
AI
DCC Delta Coordinating Controller
DCF77 German time standard, Digital Clock Function emitting on 77.5 kHz with callsign DCF
DCKG DoCKinG
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Acronym Full form
DCMAC Directorate of Civil-Military ATM Coordination (Direction de la coordination civile-militaire dans le domaine de
l'ATM)
DCMAC/HC Civil-Military Harmonisation and Support Unit (Unité "Harmonisation et soutien pour les questions civilo-
militaires")
DCMAC/NC Civil-Military Network Coordination Unit (Unité "Coordination civile-militaire au niveau du réseau ATM")
DCMAC/SC Civil-Military Strategic Coordination Unit (Unité "Coordination civile-militaire pour les questions stratégiques")
L
DCMS Data Capture & Management System
IA
DCN Direction des Constructions Navales
DCND Directorate of Cooperative Network Design (Direction "Conception d'un réseau coopératif")
R
DCOS Deputy Chief of Staff
AI
DCP Display Control Panel
DD Detailed Design
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L
dDCB dynamic Demand Capacity Balancing
IA
DDCMP Digital Data Communication Message Protocol
R
DDD Direct Distance Dialling
AI
DDE Data Dictionary Entry
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Acronym Full form
DDT DichloroDiphenylTrichloroethane
DE Derived Event
DE Discard Eligibility
L
DE Descend
IA
DEA DBE Effort Accounting (system)
R
DEBI Data Exchange by Internet
AI
Debrief Debriefing
DECCA Decca Navigator System (a hyperbolic low frequency radio navigation system also known as multilateration)
O
DED Director EATCHIP Development (in the former Agency structure) / Direction Développement EATCHIP
DEG DEGree(s)
DEI Directorate EATCHIP Implementation (in the former Agency structure) / Direction Réalisation d'EATCHIP
Page 119
Acronym Full form
DEL DELiverable
DEL Delete
DEL Deliverable
L
DEM Digital Elevation Model
IA
DEMETER DME Metering (analysis tool for DME coverage / NAVSEP)
R
Demo Demonstration
AI
DENEB fog dispersal operations
DEPT Department
C
DEQ DE-Queue
O
DESC DESCend
DESC Descending
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L
DEV DEViation (magnetic)
IA
DEVD Development Division
R
DEVD-DE CFMU Development Environment Team (part of DEVD/ASD)
AI
DEW Distant Early Warning (USA, DEW-Line)
DF
L
Finance Directorate (no longer in use as of 1.8.09)
O
DF Direction Finding or Display Field (VCS)
TR
DF Direct to a Fix
DF Direction Finder
N
DF Downlink Format
O
DF Don't Fragment
DF Display filter
O
DF05 Downlink Format 04 (= Mode S selective surveillance reply with 3/A identity)
DF20 Downlink Format 04 (= Mode S selective surveillance reply with altitude and data)
DF21 Downlink Format 04 (= Mode S selective surveillance reply with 3/A identity and data)
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Acronym Full form
L
DFIS Data Link Flight Information Service
IA
DFL Division Flight Level
R
DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (replaced BFS on 1.1.93)
AI
DFS Detailed Functional Specification (CBN - CNG)
Dg Degree
DG Drafting Group
O
DG Directional Gyro
R
DG TREN Directorate-General (for) Energy and Transport (Direction générale de l'énergie et des transports)
DG-GNSSTF Drafting Group of the Task Force on the allocation of GNSS costs
DG/ASRO Agency Safety Regulatory Oversight Unit (Unité de supervision réglementaire de la sécurité de l'Agence)
DG/CAB/ICS International Coordination and Stakeholders' Relations Unit (Unité "Coordination internationale et relations
avec les partenaires")
DG/CBP Corporate Business Planning and Monitoring Unit (Unité «Planification des activités de l'Agence et suivi des
performances»)
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Acronym Full form
DG/CEA Corporate Communications and External Affairs (Unité "Communication institutionnelle et affaires
extérieures")
DG/CEA/OCCS Online Corporate Communication Support Unit (Unité d'appui à la communication institutionnelle en ligne)
L
DG/SRU Safety Regulation Unit (Bureau de réglementation de la sécurité)
IA
DG8 Drafting Group 8 (HUM, HRT, etc.)
R
DGAC Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile (FR)
AI
DGCA Director General of Civil Aviation
DGINT L
Special Meeting at Directors General Level on Integration Issues (ECAC)
O
DGIWG Defence Geospatial Information Working Group
DGON Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ortung und Navigation (DE) / German Institute for Navigation
N
DGS/EPR External and Public Relations = Relations extérieures et communication (no longer in use)
R
DH Decision Height
DHA Directorate Human Resources and Administration (Direction des Ressources humaines et de l'Administration)
(no longer in use as of 1.8.09)
DHA/ALDA Agency Library Documentation and Archives (Service des bibliothèques, de la documentation et des archives
de l'Agence) (no longer in use as of 1.8.09)
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Acronym Full form
DHA/OF Office of the Director (Bureau du Directeur) (no longer in use as of 1.8.09)
DHA/SD Social Dialogue Office (Bureau du dialogue social) (no longer in use as of 1.8.09)
DHA/W Welfare Service (Service des affaires sociales) (no longer in use as of 1.8.09)
L
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
IA
DHE Delta High Executive controller
DHMI Devlet Hava Meydanlari Isletmesi (Turkey) / State Agency for Airports and Air Traffic Control
R
DHP Direct Host Processor
AI
DHR Directorate Human Resources (no longer in use)
Di Detectability
DIA Data Information Analysis Business Division (EUROCONTROL - DAP Business Directorate)
N
diag DIAGnostic(s)
C
DIANA Documento del Impacto de la Armonización / Integración de la Navegación Aérea en Europa (ES)
R
DIANS Director Institute of Air Navigation Services (Directeur de l'Institut de la navigation aérienne)
DIF DIFfuse
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Acronym Full form
DIO DIOde
L
DIRECT Dynamic Resectorisation and Route Coordination System
IA
DIS Data Displayed
DIS Directorate Infrastructure ATC Systems and Support (EUROCONTROL, EATMP) / Direction "Infrastructure,
R
Systèmes ATC et Appui"
AI
DIS/HUM ATM Human Resources Unit (also know as HUM unit)
DK Denmark
DL Data Link
DL Distribution List
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Acronym Full form
L
DLH Deutsche Lufthansa (Germany)
IA
DLIC Data Link Initiation Capability (ICAO)
R
DLL Delay Locked Loop
AI
DLL Data Link Logon
DLS IR Data Link Services Implementing Rule / Implementing Rule on Data Link Services
R
DM Disconnected Mode
DM Downlink Message
DM Design Model
DM Distributed Management
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Acronym Full form
L
DME Distributed Management Environment
IA
DME Distance Measuring Equipment
R
DME/P Distance Measuring Equipment
AI
DMEAN Dynamic Management of the European Airspace Network (Gestion dynamique du réseau aérien européen)
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Acronym Full form
DNG DaNGer(ous)
L
DNM/COO Directorate Network Management/Chief Operating Officer / Responsable en chef des opérations
IA
DNM/COO/DCO Deployment Coordination Division (DNM) / Coordination du déploiement
DNM/COO/DCO/CFC Communication and Frequency Coordination (DNM) / Communications et coordination des fréquences
R
DNM/COO/DCO/DPS Deployment Support (DNM) / Appui au déploiement
AI
DNM/COO/DCO/NED Network Development (DNM) / Développement du réseau
DNM/COO/DCO/SCC Surveillance and Code Coordination (DNM) / Surveillance et coordination des codes
DNM/COO/DCO/SRS
L
Surveillance Services (DNM) / Services de surveillance
O
DNM/COO/FRM Flexible Resources Management (DNM) / Gestion flexible des ressources
TR
DNM/COO/NOM Directorate Network Management/Network Operations Management Division / Gestion des opérations du
réseau
DNM/COO/NOM/ADM Airspace/AIS Data Management (DNM) / Gestion des données despace aérien/AIS
N
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Acronym Full form
DNM/COO/NTS/SUA Systems Upgrade and Architecture (DNM) / Mise à niveau et architecture des systèmes
L
DNM/NTS Directorate Network Management/Network Technical Systems Division / Systèmes techniques du réseau
IA
DNM/OFF Directorate Network Management/Office of the Director / Bureau du Directeur
DNM/OMR Directorate Network Management/Operational Monitoring and Reporting Unit / Suivi opérationnel et compte
R
rendu
AI
DNM/OMR/FTA Forecast & Traffic Analysis (DNM) / Prévisions et analyses du trafic aérien
DNM/OMR/OAR Operational Analysis & Reporting (DNM) / Analyse opérationnelle et compte rendu
DNM/OMR/PRI L
PRISME & Data Management (DNM) / PRISME et gestion des données
O
DNM/OMR/USR Users Relations (DNM) / Relations avec les utilisateurs
DO Document
C
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Acronym Full form
DOM DOMestic
L
DOPS Directors Operations
IA
DoR Domain of Responsibility
R
DOS Disc/Disk Operating System
AI
DOS Directory of Services
DP Data Provider
EU
DP Documentation Plan
DP Discussion Paper
DP Data Packet
DP Data Processing
Page 130
Acronym Full form
L
DPL Deputy Project Leader
IA
DPL Displayed Flight Plan
R
DPM Delta-Plane Motorisé (FR)
AI
DPMI Dos Protected Mode Interface
DPSADD-TF Data Processing Systems Architecture Description Document Task Force (ATD)
O
DPT DePTh
EU
DQTS Data Quality Tool Set (Jeu d'outils de contrôle de la qualité des données)
DR Dead Reckoning
DR Danger/Restricted area
DR Delivery Report
DR Disaster Recovery
Page 131
Acronym Full form
DR Disconnect Request
DR/ABP Directorate Resources/Agency Business Plan and Performance Management (Plan stratégique de lAgence et
gestion des performances)
L
DR/AD/FA Financial Administration (Administration financière)
IA
DR/AD/PA Payroll/Pensions (Paie / pensions)
R
DR/AD/PROC Procurement (Achats)
AI
DR/AD/PS Partnership and Agreements (Partenariats et accords)
DR/CS/FL Directorate Resources/Corporate Services/Facility Management and Logistics (Gestion des installations et
R
logistique)
EU
Page 132
Acronym Full form
L
DRAHG Double Regulation Ad-hoc Group
IA
DRAHG Double Regulation Ad-hoc Group / Groupe ad hoc sur la double réglementation
R
DRC Defence Review Committee
AI
DRC Dynamic Route Change
DRG DuRinG
O
DS Data Source
DS Differentiated Services
DS deployment scenario
DSA Director(ate) Safety, Airspace, Airports and Information Services (EUROCONTROL, EATMP) / Direction
'Sécurité, Espace aérien, Aéroports et Services d'information'
Page 133
Acronym Full form
L
DSCP DiffServ CodePoint
IA
DSCVHF Digital Selective Calling - Very High Frequency
R
DSE Dialogue Service Element
AI
DSF Distribution and Switching Facility
DSNA Direction des services de la navigation aérienne (Directorate Air Navigation Services, France)
Page 134
Acronym Full form
DSR/PSO Directorate SESAR and Research/EUROCONTROL SESAR Joint Undertaking Project Support Office
L
DSS Direct Subsystem
IA
DSS Direct Sequence spread Spectrum
R
DSS/CM/ATM Civil-Military - ATM Coordination Unit (DSS)
AI
DSS/CM/CNS Civil-Military - CNS Coordination Unit (DSS)
DSS/CM/SES
L
Civil-Military - SES Implementation Support Unit (DSS)
O
DSS/CM/SPM Civil-Military - SESAR Programme Manager (DSS)
TR
Page 135
Acronym Full form
DT Data Terminal
DT Displaced Threshold
L
DT&E Development, Test and Evaluation
IA
DTAM Descend To And Maintain
R
DTE Data Terminal Equipment (RMCDE)
AI
DTED Digital Terrain Evaluation Data (ECAC)
DTRT DeTerioRaTe(ing)
Page 136
Acronym Full form
DU Data User
DU Display Unit
L
DUAT Direct User Access Terminal
IA
DUATS Direct User Access Terminal System
R
DUC Dense Upper Cloud
AI
DUEACT an sfpl is "DUE for ACTivation"
DUP DUPlicate
L
O
DUPL-MIL Send Flight Plan Info to Dutch Mil (N-FDPS)
TR
DUR DURation
DUX DUpleX
C
Page 137
Acronym Full form
DX DupleX
L
DYNAV Dynamic Route Availability
IA
DZ Algeria (ISO Country Code)
R
DZ DriZzle
AI
DZH DeCo Zeeland High
DÜS Düsseldorf
E Spain
E Error
N
E+M signalling
C
E-OCVM European Operational Concept Validation Methodology / méthode européenne de validation des concepts
opérationnels
e.m. electromagnetic
E/LCIP mechanism European/Local Convergence and Implementation Plan (mechanism) (now replaced by the ESSIP/LSSIP
mechanism)
Page 138
Acronym Full form
E1 2048kbps interface
EA Europe Airsports
EA Extended Address
L
EA Expedited data Acknowledgement
IA
EA Enterprise Architecture
R
EAB European ATM Board
AI
EAB European AIS Database and Aeronautical Information Bureau (Bureau « Base européenne de données AIS
et information aéronautique »)
Page 139
Acronym Full form
L
EAGLES European Air Ground Laboratory for Efficient System Integration
IA
EAH Erroneous AFTN Header
R
EAIP-TF Electronic Aeronautical Information Publication (Task Force)
AI
EAM ESARR Advisory Material
EAM3/ICAO ESARR3 Guidance Material - Consistency between ESARR 3 and ICAO SARPs
O
EANPG European Air Navigation Planning Group (Groupe européen de planification de la navigation aérienne
(GEPNA))
Page 140
Acronym Full form
EAPPRI European Action Plan for the Prevention of Runway Incursions (Plan d'action européen pour la prévention
des incursions sur piste)
EAPRLB European Action Plan for the Prevention of Level Busts (Plan d'action européen pour la réduction des
transgressions de niveau de vol)
L
EAS EATMP Advisory Services
IA
EAS EURCONTROL Advisory Services
R
EAS Equivalent AirSpeed
AI
EAS European AIS System
EASA
L
European Aviation Safety Agency (Agence européenne de la sécurité aérienne)
O
EASC European ATM Staff Representatives Conference
TR
EASEG EUROCONTROL Ad hoc ATM Security Group (Groupe ad hoc d'EUROCONTROL pour la sécurité de l'ATM)
EASIE Enhanced Air Traffic Management and Mode S Implementation in Europe (Amélioration de la gestion du trafic
aérien et mise en oeuvre du Mode S en Europe)
O
EATCHIP European Air Traffic Control Harmonisation and Integration Programme (see EATMP) ; Programme européen
d'harmonisation et d'intégration du contrôle de la circulation aérienne
Page 141
Acronym Full form
EATM European Air Traffic Management Service Business Unit (Service prestataire de gestion du trafic aérien en
Europe)
EATMP European Air Traffic Management Program (Programme européen de gestion de la circulation aérienne)
EATMS European Air Traffic Management System (Système européen de gestion de la circulation aérienne)
L
EAUP European Airspace Use Plan
IA
EAVU EUROCONTROL Airspace Validation Unit
R
EAW Easy Access to Weekend (Routes)
AI
EAWDG EATMS Architecture Workshop Drafting Group
EB EastBound
EC European Commission (to be avoided because of possible confusion with European Community/ies)
EC Eyes closed
EC Executive Controller
EC European Community/ies
Page 142
Acronym Full form
ECARDA European Coherent Approach to Research and Technological Development for ATM
L
ECC EAN Consortium Committee
IA
ECC Error Correction Code
R
ECC EATCHIP Coordination Committee
AI
ECC-AIRS European Coordination Centre for Aircraft Incident Reporting Systems (EC)
ECCAIRS European Coordination Centre for Aircraft Incident Reporting Systems (EC)
ECCG Experimental Centre Consultation Group (Groupe consultatif sur le Centre expérimental)
eCE enlarged Committee for Route Charges (Comité élargi pour les redevances de route)
O
ECEF Earth-Centered-Earth-Fixed
ECG ElectroCardioGram
R
ECI Every-Citizen-Interface
ECIP European Convergence and Implementation Plan (Plan européen de convergence et de réalisation) (now
replaced by ESSIP)
Page 143
Acronym Full form
ECLECTIC Electronic separation Clearance Enabling the Crossing of traffic under Instrument meteorological Conditions
(CENA Project)
L
ECM EATCHIP Coordination Meeting
IA
ECM Executive Control Message
R
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers' Association
AI
ECMC ETFMS Central Monitoring and Control System
ECODA Enhanced Central Office for Delay Analysis (Service central amélioré d'analyse des retards de trafic)
TR
ED EUROCAE Document
ED Entry Departure
ED Error Detail
Page 144
Acronym Full form
Ed(s) Editor(s)
L
ED-12A Eurocae Document 12A
IA
ED-12B Eurocae Document 12B
R
ED-14E Eurocae Document 14E
AI
ED-43 Eurocae Document 43
EDAG European Delay Analysis System Advisory Group (Groupe consultatif sur le système européen d'analyse des
retards)
R
EDAS European Delay Analysis System (Système européen d'analyse des retards)
EDD-VKL EDD-controller/planner-controller
Page 145
Acronym Full form
EDIFACT Electrical Data Interface for Administration Commerce and Transport (ODS)
L
EDMM Engineering and Development Management Meeting
IA
EDMS Emission Dispersion Modelling System
R
EDOP Enhanced Directors of Operations Forum
AI
EDP Electronic Data Processing
EEG ElectroEncephaloGram
Page 146
Acronym Full form
EF End Frame
L
EFAP Enhanced Future ATM Profile
IA
EFAS Effort Accounting System (Système de comptabilisation des temps de travail)
R
EFCT Expected Further Clearance Time
AI
EFD ETFMS Flight Data
EFDP
L
European Flight Data Processing (Système européen de traitement des données de vol)
O
EFFP Environment-Friendly Flight Path
TR
EFQM European Foundation for Quality Management (Fondation européenne pour le management par la qualité)
Page 147
Acronym Full form
L
EGCSA Enhanced Ground Controller Situational Awarness
IA
EGD EUROCONTROL Generic Document
R
EGIP European Gateway for International NOTAM Operation Provision (Point d'accès européen au service de
AI
gestion des NOTAM internationaux)
Page 148
Acronym Full form
L
EIPA European Institute of Public Administration
IA
EIR Equipment Identity Register
R
EIS Electronic Indicating System (Airbus)
AI
EIS Environmental Information Sampling
EL Entry Lateral
EL Elevation
N
Page 149
Acronym Full form
L
ELT Emergency Locator Transmitter
IA
ELVIRA Extremely Low Visibility Instrument Rotorcraft Approaches
R
ELW Extended Label Window
AI
ELW Exerted Landing Weight
EM End of Medium
EM Error Mechanism
L
O
EM Empty Module
TR
EM Electromagnetic
EM EMission
N
EM Exempted
O
EMAC European - Middle East ATM Coordination Mechanism (Dispositif de coordination Europe - Proche-Orient
C
pour l'ATM)
O
EMCR(ATC) Requirements for European Class 3 Medical Certification of Air Traffic Controllers
Page 150
Acronym Full form
EMER Emergency
EMERALD EMErging and Activities of reLevance to ATM concept Definition (European Commission)
EMERG EMERGency
EMEU EUROCONTROL Military Expert Unit (Unité des experts militaires d'EUROCONTROL)
L
EMF Electro Motive Force
IA
EMF Exercise Management Facility (Simulator)
R
EMG ElectroMyoGram
AI
EMG Emergency (ICAO)
EMIRA EUROCONTROL Maastricht Information Retriever Application (Progiciel de recherche d'information pour
EUROCONTROL- Maastricht)
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EMTO ECAC Medium-Term Objectives Group (to deal with 'Constraints to Growth'
EMUC European Union Military Committee / CMUE Comité militaire de l'Union européenne
EN Entry Node
L
EN European Standard
IA
EN Enabler
R
ENAC Italian Civil Aviation Authority (Ente Nazionale per l'Aviazione Civile)
AI
ENAC Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (FR), French Civil Aviation School
ENAV Ente nazionale di assistenza al volo (Italian Government Agency for Air Traffic and Aeronautical Services)
ENE East-North-East
N
ENG ENGine
O
ENG Engineering
ENQ ENQuiry
ENRT EN-RouTe
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Acronym Full form
ENV Environment
L
EO Executive Objectives (EATMS - CSD)
IA
EO Eyes Open
R
EOAG European Operations Advisory Group (Groupe consultatif européen "Operations")
AI
EOB End Of Block
EOG ElectroOculoGram
R
EOIG EGNOS Operators and Infrastructure Group - the ATS providers in the states formerly known as the IKD
States
EONS EUROCONTROL Open and Generic Graphic System / Système graphique ouvert et générique
d'EUROCONTROL
Page 153
Acronym Full form
EP European Parliament
EP Expert Panel
L
EPB EATCHIP Project Board
IA
EPC Enhanced Planning Control
R
EPC Enhanced Planning and Coordination function (project of MDP phase I)
AI
EPCM Enhanced Planning Control Message
EPIC European Programme for the Implementation of a Common geodetic reference frame (WGS 84)
C
EPISMAS Economic Performance Indicators in Support of Mathematical Air Traffic Control Simulations
EU
Page 154
Acronym Full form
L
EPU Estimated Position Uncertainty
IA
EQ Equalizer (NOT Equipment !)
R
EQF EUROCONTROL Quality Forum (Forum Qualité d'EUROCONTROL)
AI
EQPM Equipment and Systems
Eqpt Equipment
L
O
EQUATOR Environment for Qualitative Temporal Reasoning (AI)
TR
Equipe R Perception des redevances de route au titre des accords bilatéraux passés avec des Etats non-contractants =
Collection of air navigation charges under bilateral agreements with non-Contracting states (= R Team)
ER Elementary Restart
N
ER En-Route
O
ER ERror (TPDU)
O
ERA Economic & Regulatory Affairs (Unit) (CRCO) ((Unité) «Affaires économiques et réglementaires»)
Page 155
Acronym Full form
L
ERD Entity Relationship Diagram
IA
ERD End Routing Domain
ERDF European Regional Development Fund / Fonds européen de développement régional (=FEDER)
R
ERDS Error Recording Data Set
AI
ERDs End Routing Domains
ERFA Conference on the Economics of Route Air Navigation Facilities and Airports (ICAO) = Conférence sur
l'économie des installations et services de navigation aérienne de route et des aéroports
ERIS EATMP Reference Industry-based ATM Simulation and trials platform Programme (Programme ERIS
(EATMP Reference Industry-based ATM Simulation and trials platform))
C
ERIS eDEP Early Demonstration and Evaluation Platform for Rapid Prototyping
O
Page 156
Acronym Full form
ERRIDS European Regional Renegade Information Dissemination System (Système régional européen de diffusion
d'informations sur les aéronefs présentant un comportement suspect)
L
ERSS EUROCONTROL Radar Surveillance Standard
IA
ERT Execution Reference Time
R
ERT Expected Ready Time
AI
ERV ECM Resistant Voice
ES Entry Sector L
O
ES Entry Subjacent
ES Elementary Airspace
C
ES End System
O
ES Enhanced Surveillance
ES Extended Squitter
R
Page 157
Acronym Full form
ESARR 5 EUROCONTROL Safety Regulatory Requirement for ATM Services' Personnel (SRC)
ESARR2 EUROCONTROL Safety Regulatory Requirement 2 Reporting and Assessment of Safety Occurrences in
ATM
ESARR3 EUROCONTROL Safety Regulatory Requirement (Use of safety management systems by ATM service
providers)
ESARR4 EUROCONTROL Safety Regulatory Requirement 4 Risk Assessment and Mitigation in ATM
L
ESARR5 EUROCONTROL Safety Regulatory Requirement 5 ATM Services' Personnel
IA
ESARR6 EUROCONTROL Safety Regulatory Requirement 6 Software in ATM Systems
R
ESB enterprise service bus
AI
ESC Environment Services Component
ESC ESCape
ESC
L
European ATM Systems and Convergence Business Division (Division prestataire "Système ATM européen
O
et convergence")
TR
ESCAPE EUROCONTROL Simulation Capability And Platform for Experimentation (Potentiel de simulation et plate-
N
ESE East-South-East
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Acronym Full form
ESIMS ESARR Implementation Monitoring and Support (Programme) (Programme de suivi et d'appui à la mise en
oeuvre des ESARR)
ESP European Safety Programme for ATM (Plan européen pour la sécurité de l'ATM)
L
ESP+ European Safety Programme Plus
IA
ESPOSA Efficient Systems and Propulsion for Small Aircraft
R
ESPRIT European Strategic Programme for Research and development in Information Technology
AI
ESR European Staff Requirement (A 400M)
ESTEEM Elaboration of a Strategy for the Transition from EATCHIP phase III to the EATMS
Page 159
Acronym Full form
ET Error Type
ET Executive Task
L
ET (Shuttle) External Tank
IA
ET Event Tree
R
ETA Even Tree Analysis
AI
ETA Estimated Time of Arrival / Estimating Arrival
ETCAS
L
Enhanced Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System
O
ETD Estimated Time of Departure
TR
ETNA Extranet for National Administrations (Extranet destiné aux Administrations nationales)
Page 160
Acronym Full form
L
ETS Early Termination of Service (ETS) scheme - Régime de cessation anticipée des fonctions (ETS)
IA
ETS European Telecommunications Standard
R
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
AI
ETSO European Technical Standard Order
EU European Union
O
EU Electronic Unit
EU-ACA European Union Airport Coordinators Association (represent more than 120 airports throughout the European
Union)
R
Page 161
Acronym Full form
EUR Euro
EUR Europe
EUR European
EUR AFTN/AFS GERAC Group on European Regional AFTN/AFS Implementation and Operation Coordination
L
EUR ANP ICAO European Air Navigation Plan
IA
EUR RAN European Regional Air Navigation (Meeting)
R
EUR-AFS European Aeronautical Fixed Service Group (ICAO)
AI
EUR-ANP European Air Navigation Plan (ICAO)
EURAMID European ATM Military Directors Conference / Conférence européenne des Directeurs militaires de la
navigation aérienne
C
EURET European Research for Transport (European Communities) ; Specific Resource and Technological
Development Programme in the Field of Transport
EURO EUROCONTROL
EUROAT EUROCONTROL ECAC Area Rules for OAT-IFR / Règles régionales Eurocontrol pour la COM
EUROCAE European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment (Organisation européenne pour l'équipement de l'aviation
civile)
EUROCONTROL European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Organisation européenne pour la sécurité de la
navigation aérienne)
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Acronym Full form
EUROMED Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Partenariat euro-méditerranéen) (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon,
Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey)
L
EUUP European Update airspace Use Plan
IA
EV EVery
R
EV Earned Value
AI
EVA Enhanced Video Adapter
EVAC EVACuation L
O
EVAIR EUROCONTROL Voluntary ATM Incident Reporting (system) / mécanisme EUROCONTROL de notification
spontanée des incidents liés à l'ATM
TR
EVS Exploitation-Vacation-Sujétion
Page 163
Acronym Full form
L
EWPD EATCHIP Work Programme Document
IA
EWPD Eatchip Work Package Definition
R
EWS Early Warning System
AI
EWST Estimated Wait Stand Time
Ex Exercises
L
O
EX EXecute (the previously entered command sequence)
TR
EX Excluded
EXC EXCept
C
EXEC EXECute
EXEC EXECutive
EXER EXERcise(s)
EXM Exempt
EXP Expected
Page 164
Acronym Full form
EXTD EXTenD(ing)
extra EUR Regional AIS System Centre outside the ICAO EUR region
f frequency
F France
L
F&E Facilities and Equipment Program (FAA)
IA
F.435 ITU-T Recommendation F.435 on EDI Messaging Services
R
F/D Flight Director
AI
F/G Foreground
F2 Framing Pulse 2
O
FA Fix to an Altitude
C
FA Final Acceptance
R
FAA Federal Aviation Administration (Administration fédérale de l'aviation) USA (ICAO 7910/63)
FAA-STD-042 National Airspace System Open System Interconnection Naming and Addressing (ISO Standards for Open
Systems Interconnection and Data Communication published by ISO, International Standards Organisation).
FAAS Flight Plan Assessment and Alert System (Système d'évaluation des plans de vol et d'alerte)
FAB CE Functional Airspace Block Central Europe (Austria, Bosnia and Herzogovina, Czech Republic, Hungary,
Slovakia and Slovenia)
FAB EC FAB Europe Central (Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland)
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Acronym Full form
FABEC Functional Airspace Block Europe Central (Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands,
Switzerland)
FAC FACilities
L
Facil Facilitation
IA
FACT Future Communication Architecture to support Intra-Centre Communications between Air Traffic Management
System Components based on TCP/IP
R
FACTOR Development of Functional Concepts from the EATMS Operational Requirements
AI
FACTS Future Area Control Tools Support
FANS-1 Future Air Navigation Systems 1, an initial operational datalink package for the South Pacific
FANS-A Future Air Navigation Systems A, an initial operational datalink package for AIRBUS aircraft
FANSTIC Future Air Traffic Management, New Systems, and Technologies Integration in Cockpit
Page 166
Acronym Full form
FARADS Feasibility of an ACAS RA Downlink Study (Étude de faisabilité sur la transmission par liaison descendante
des RA de l'ACAS)
L
FAS Flexible Access System
IA
FASID Facilities And Services Implementation Document (ICAO)
R
FAST Full Autonomous Separation Transfer
AI
FASTER Future AO-ATM-Airports Synergy Towards Enhanced Operations
FATA Force Aérienne Tactique Alliée (OTAN) / Allied Tactical Air Force (=ATAF)
O
FB FallBack
FB Fast Byte
Page 167
Acronym Full form
FBW Fly-By-Wire
FC Frequency Change
FC Frame Control
FC Formalised Clearances
FC Feeder Controller
L
FC Funnel Cloud (Tornado, Waterspout)
IA
FCA Funtional Configuration Audit (MAS - ODS)
R
FCB File Control Block
AI
FCB Frequency Coordination Board
Page 168
Acronym Full form
FCST ForeCaST
L
FCWOS Federal Contract Weather Observing Site
IA
FD Course from a Fix to a DME Distance (ARINC 424 Path Terminator)
R
Fd Doppler Frequency
AI
FD Flight Director
FD Flight Data
FDETXTF Flight Data Exchange Task Force (Équipe spéciale "Échange des données de vol")
FDFMG Flight Data and Flow Management Group (Groupe "Données de vol et gestion des courants de trafic aérien")
Page 169
Acronym Full form
L
FDMD Flight Data Management and Distribution
IA
FDMS Flight Data Management System
R
FDO Fdps Data Operator
AI
FDOD Flight Data Operations Division (Old name, see OPSD)
FDPI Flight Data Processing Inter-operability (formerly eFDP - European Flight Data Processing System)
FDPS Flight Data Processing System / Système de traitement des données de vol
O
FE Framing Error
Page 170
Acronym Full form
FEAST First European Air Traffic Controller Selection Test (Première batterie européenne de tests de sélection des
contrôleurs de la circulation aérienne)
FEATS Future European Air Traffic Management System Concept (Concept du futur dispositif de gestion du trafic
aérien dans la Région Europe)
FEB FEBruary
L
FED Fonds européen de développement
IA
FEDCAD Federal Civil Aviation Department (Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
R
FEO Fund Executive Officer (Administrateur général du Fonds)
AI
FEP Front-End Processor
FEV1/FVC Forced Expiratory Volume (in one second) / Forced Vital Capacity
FF Form Feed
FFM Frankfurt/Main
FFS Führungs und Förderungs System (DE) (DFS) / Leadership and promotion system
Page 171
Acronym Full form
FG Functional Group
FG Focus Group
FG FoG
L
FGCS Flight Guidance Control System
IA
FHA Functional Hazard Assessment
R
FHT File Handle Table
AI
FI Finland (ISO Country Code)
FIFU Financial Information for Users (Informations financières destinées aux usagers)
FIN Finland
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Acronym Full form
L
FIS Financial Information System
IA
FIS-B Flight Information Service - Broadcast
R
FISC Flight Information Services Communications
AI
FISO Flight Information Service Officer
FIX point at which a flight plan HOLD acts. (Selected from list)
O
FIX Fixpoint
EU
FL Forward Link
FLARM FLARM (trade mark = "Flight Alarm", commercial low-cost collision-avoidance system)
FLD FieLD
Page 173
Acronym Full form
FLG FLashinG
L
FLIPCY Flight Plan Consistency
IA
FLIPINT Flight Path Intent
R
FLIRECP Flight Recorder Panel (ICAO)
AI
FLIRECP Flight Recorder Panel
FLR FLaRes
FLT Flight
FLUC FLUCtuating(ed)(ion)
Page 174
Acronym Full form
FLY FLY(ing)
FM FroM ...
FM Frequency Management
FM Frequency Modulation
FM Flow Manager
L
FMC Flight Management Computer / Control
IA
FMCG Flow Management Coordination Group
R
FMD Flow Management Division (CFMU: old name, see OPSD)
AI
FMEA Failure Mode Effects Analysis
FMTP Flight Message Transfer Protocol (Protocole de transfert des messages de vol)
FN Flight Notification(s)
FN Format Number
FN False Negative
Page 175
Acronym Full form
L
FOBN Flight Operations Briefing Note
IA
FOC Full Operational Capability
R
FOC/WOC Flight /Wing Operations Centre
AI
FOCA Floor of Controlled Airspace
FOCUS
L
Futura Posición del Controlador para UCS SACTA (ES)
O
FOD Foreign Object Damage
TR
FOIPS Flight Object Interoperability Proposed Standard (Projet de norme d'interopérabilité pour l'échange des
données relatives aux objets de vol)
C
FOR-DEC Facts, Options, Risks and Benefits, Decision, Execution and Check
R
FP Flight Plan
FP Flight Prediction
FP False Positive
FP Focal Point
FP 5 Fifth Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and
Demonstration
Page 176
Acronym Full form
L
FPCP Flight Path Control Point
IA
FPD Flight Plan Data
R
FPDE-TF Flight Plan Data Exchange Task Force
AI
FPDPS Front Panel Data Ports
FPGM Flight Plan Generated Message (Message généré par plan de vol)
FPLA Flight Plan Handling Applications Section (Section « Applications de traitement des plans de vol »)
FPLSG (ICAO) Flight Plan Study Group (Groupe d'étude sur les plans de vol)
Page 177
Acronym Full form
L
FPR Flight Profile Restriction
IA
FPR Flight Plan Route
R
FPS Functional Performance Specification (EATCHIP)
AI
FPS Flight Plan Server (MADAP)
FR Frame Relay
FR Fuel Remaining
FR Flight Route
Page 178
Acronym Full form
L
FREER Free Route Experimental Encounter Resolution (Système expérimental de maintien autonome de la
séparation sur routes libres)
IA
FREER Freer Flight
R
FREGATE Filtre de Régulation Ergonomique de la Gestion des Secteurs & d'Anticipation des Tâches Excessives (FR)
AI
FREQ FREQuency
FRI FRIday
FRNG FiRiNG
FRQ FReQuent
Page 179
Acronym Full form
FS Fast Select
FS Functional Specification
FS Frame Status
FS Flight Segment
FS File Separator
L
FS Foot Switch (VCS
IA
FS Flight plan Server
R
FSA First System Activation (message)
AI
FSC Flight Services Component
FSK FlugSicherungsKontrolldienst
R
FSPEC Field SPECification (ASTERIX), field of variable length, indicating which data fields are present in a record
and in which order (see also Record)
Page 180
Acronym Full form
FST FirST
L
FT FeeT (100 of which make 1 FL)
IA
ft feet / foot
FT Fast Track
R
FT Filing Time
AI
FT Fault Tree
Page 181
Acronym Full form
FU smoke (FUme)
L
FUCOZOC Fuel Consumption Estimator in a ZOC
IA
FUG Feast User Group
R
FUM Flight Update Message
AI
FUSE Frequency Usage analysis in Europe
FUSG
L
Flexible Use of Airspace Sub-Group (Sub-Group of ANT)
O
FUT Future
TR
FVK FlugVerkehrsKontrolle
FW Functional Window
O
FW Flow
R
FX Field eXtension
FY Fiscal Year
FZ FreeZing
Page 182
Acronym Full form
G Group Training
L
G.704 ITU-T recommendation: framing specification for G.703.
IA
G.711 ITU-T recommendation for PCM voice coding
R
G.728 ITU-T recommendation: LD-CELP voice coding
AI
G.729 ITU-T recommendation: CS-ACELP speech coding
G.783 ITU-T recommendation: Characteristics of Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) Equipment Functional Blocks
G.803
L
ITU-T recommendation: Architecture of transport networks based on the synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH)
O
G.811 ITU-T recommendation: "Timing requirements of primary reference clocks"Defines requirements of Level 1
Primary Reference Clock systems.
TR
G.822 ITU-T recommendation: Controlled slip rate objectives on an international digital connection
G.825 ITU-T recommendation: The control of jitter and wander within digital networks which are based on the
N
G/A Ground-to-Air
G/G Ground-to-Ground
G/S Glideslope
G/w Gateway
G3 Group 3 FAX
GA Ground Antenna
Ga-As Gallium-Arsenid
Page 183
Acronym Full form
GAASR Group of Air Navigation Service, Airport and Ground Aids Safety Regulators
L
GACC General Aviation Consultative Committee
IA
GACS Generic ATN Communication Service
R
GAD Ground Accuracy Designator
AI
GADIRU GPS Air Data Inertial Reference Unit (A 400M)
GARB GARBled
Page 184
Acronym Full form
GASR Group of Aerodrome Safety Regulators (Groupe des instances chargées de la réglementation de la sécurité
sur les aérodromes)
L
GAT Group for ATM Training
IA
GAT General Air Traffic (civil) (Circulation aérienne générale (CAG))
R
GATE Group of ATM in the Eastern Part of the ICAO EUR Region, including Middle Asia
AI
GATELINK GATE aircraft terminating environment LINK
GB Great Britain
Gb Gigabyte
N
GBDA Gestor de Base de Datos de Adaptación (ES) / Environment Data Base Manager
GC Great Circle
GC Graphics Controller
GC Ground Controller
Page 185
Acronym Full form
L
GCS Ground Control Segment
IA
GCSE General Certificate of Secondary Education
GCST Group for Coordination of STAR (Studies, Tests and Applied Research)
R
GCTA Gestion des Courants de Trafic Aérien (=ATFM)
AI
GCU Generator Control Unit
Page 186
Acronym Full form
GEN General
L
GENL (GNL) General
IA
GENOFIC General North Sea Flight Information Centre
R
GENSPACE Generic Airspace and Environment for Common Use
AI
GEO Geostationary Orbit
GEO GEO Point (point that is only defined by its geographical coordinates, ENV entity type, used in all CHMI)
GET Generator
R
GETALIS Sistema de Gestão de Tráfego Aéreo de Lisboa (PT) / Future Lisboa Air Traffic Management System
EU
GF Generic Functional
Page 187
Acronym Full form
L
GGVCSG Ground/Ground Voice Communications Sub-Group
IA
GHG Greenhouse Gases
R
GHz Gigahertz
AI
GIACC Group on International Aviation and Climate Change
GIB
L
Global Navigation Satellite System Integrity Broadcast
O
GIB GPS Integrity Broadcast
TR
Page 188
Acronym Full form
GLD GLiDer
GLONASS Global'naya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema (RU) - GLObal NAvigation Satellite System
L
GLS GNSS Landing System
IA
GLSU GPS Landing System Unit
R
GLU GNSS Landing Unit
AI
GM Greenwich Meridian
GM Guidance Material
GM Global Menu
L
O
Gmbh Gemeinschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (DE)
TR
GN Global Network
Page 189
Acronym Full form
GND GrouND
L
GNLU GNSS Navigation and Landing Unit
IA
GNP Gross National Product
R
GNS Global Navigation System
AI
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System (Système mondial de navigation par satellite)
GP General Procurement
GP Glide Path
Page 190
Acronym Full form
L
GPSW GPS Wing (formerly the JPO)
IA
GPTP Guided Part-Task Practice
R
GPV GNSS Performance Validation
AI
GPW Ground Proximity Warning
GR hail
L
O
GR Greece
TR
GRADU GRADUal(ly)
O
GRID Meteo data in GRID point value form, in aeronautical meteo code
Page 191
Acronym Full form
GRVL GRaVeL
GS Ground Speed
GS Glideslope
GS Guaranteed Service
GS Glide Slope
L
GS Graphical Station
IA
GS Ground Station
R
GSA Guided Skill Acquisition
AI
GSA GNSS Supervisory Authority
GSFL Groupe d'experts 'Sélection, formation et licences du personnel ATS' / ATS Selection, Training and Licensing
Panel (EUROCONTROL) (=STLP)
C
GSOC German Space Operations Center (DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt)
Page 192
Acronym Full form
GT Ground Transmitter
GTBF (4 Etats) Groupe de travail budgétaire et financier / Four-State Budgetary and Financial Working Group
L
GTE Groupe tripartite européen
IA
GtG Gate-to-Gate (programme)
R
GTIS Ground-based Traffic Information System
AI
GTMD Group Training - Material-dependent
GTP
L
Groupe de travail "Pensions" / Pensions Working Group (= PWG)
O
GTr Ghost Track Rate
TR
GV Group Validation
Page 193
Acronym Full form
h Hour
h Heading
H Heading (N-FDPS)
H Hour
H Hungary
H Heavy
L
H-OFF-P Hand-Off Propose
IA
H.323 "Voice Over Ip" Standard
R
H/M/L High/Medium/Low (ATC Complexity)
AI
H/OFF/A Hand-OFF Accept
HA High Availability
C
HA HAndset
O
HADES Help tool for Airspace Design EEC Studies (Outil d'aide à l'organisation de l'espace aérien)
Page 194
Acronym Full form
L
HAT Height Above Touchdown
IA
HATR Hazardous Air Traffic Report
R
HAZ Hazard
AI
HAZOPS Hazard and Operability Study
HC High Capacity
HD Harmonisation Documents
HD Help Desk
HDBK Handbook
Page 195
Acronym Full form
HDG HeaDinG
L
HDLC High-Level Data Link Control (Protocol) (RADNET)
IA
HDLC High Level Data Link Communication
R
HDOP Horizontal Dilution of Precision
AI
HDS Help Desk Staff
HED Heading
HEL HELicopter
EU
HERMES Harmonised En-Route Metering and Spacing system (Système harmonisé de régulation et de mise en
séquence en route des arrivées)
Page 196
Acronym Full form
HEX Hexadecimal
L
HFDL High Frequency Data Link
IA
HFDR HF Data Radio
R
HFFG Human Factors Focus Group
AI
HFGS HF Ground Station
HFIAI
L
Human Factors in Incident and Accident Investigation (HRT)
O
HFNPDU High Frequency Subnetwork Protocol Data Unit
TR
Hg Mercury
Page 197
Acronym Full form
L
HIP Hearing of Interested Parties / Audition des parties intéressées
IA
HIPER-LAN High Performance Local Area Network
HIPS Highly Interactive Problem Solver = Système hautement interactif de planification et de résolution
R
HIRIS Human Resources Information System (Système d'information des ressources humaines)
AI
HIRL High Intensity Runway Lights
HIRO High Intensity Runway Operations (Exploitation haute intensité des pistes)
HIST History
HITL Human-In-The-Loop
C
HJ sunrise to sunset
R
HLD Hold
HLDG HoLDinG
Page 198
Acronym Full form
HM Hold Message
L
HMA High Memory Area
IA
HMAI Harmonisation of Military Aeronautical Information
R
HMD Horizontal Miss Distance (filter) (TCAS/ACAS)
AI
HME Height Measuring Element
HN sunset to sunrise
HN50 Incident ayant pour conséquence une réduction de séparation inférieure à 50% du minimum de séparation
radar
HN70 Incident ayant pour conséquence une réduction de séparation inférieure à 70% du minimum de séparation
radar.
HOGI Harmonisation of Operational Air Traffic and its General Air Traffic Interface
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Acronym Full form
HOL HOLiday
HOLD Hold(ing)
L
HOP Hand-Over Proposal
IA
HOP Hand-Off Propose
Hor Horizontal
R
HOSP Medical (hospital) flight (Flight plan status indicator)
AI
HOT holdover time
HP High Precision
HP Hewlett Packard
L
O
HP Human Performance
TR
HP Horizontal Polarisation
HP Horse-Power
N
hPa hectopascal
C
Page 200
Acronym Full form
HR HouRs
HR Human Resources
L
HRA Human Reliability Assessment / Analysis
IA
HRD Human Resources Directorate
R
HRFGS Human Resource, Finance & General Services bureau
AI
HRH Hannover Ruhr High
HRP Human Resources Planning and Corporate Services = Planification et aspects généraux des ressources
humaines
O
hrs hours
O
HRSC Human Resources Steering Committee (Training Programme Ab Initio, CC) / Comité directeur des ressources
humaines
HS Headset
Page 201
Acronym Full form
L
HSM High Speed Modem
IA
HSM Hierarchical Storage Management
R
HSNR Highest value of SNR
AI
HSP High Speed Printer
HT High Tension
O
HT HorizonTal
R
Page 202
Acronym Full form
HUM BD Human Factors Management Business Division (EUROCONTROL - DAS Business Directorate)
L
HUM-CLASS HUM-CLASS content
IA
HUM.ET1.ST05.4000-GU Air Traffic Controller Training at Operational Units Edition 2, 29 June 99
R
HUM02-ASP08 HUM02-ASP08 Use commonly based Team Resource Management concepts, methods and tools
AI
HUMR Human Resources
HVY HeaVY
O
HW Hardware
HYR HigheR
HZ dust HaZe
I Italy
Page 203
Acronym Full form
L
I/F Interface
IA
I/NAV GALILEO's Integrity Navigation Message Type
R
I/O Interoperability
AI
I/R Interrogator/Responsor
I1 Incident Type 1
L
O
I2 Incident Type 2
TR
I4D Initial 4D
N
IA Indirect Access
O
IA International Alphabet
IA Interoperability Assessment
C
IA Interconnection Agreement
O
IA Impact Assessment
R
IA Instantaneous Access
EU
Page 204
Acronym Full form
L
IAFP Individual ATC Flight Plan Proposal
IA
IAG Interim Airport Group
R
IAGC Instantaneous AGC
AI
IAHA International Aviation Handlers' Association
Page 205
Acronym Full form
L
IAT International Atomic Time
IA
IATA International Air Transport Association (Association du transport aérien international)
R
IATS ICAO Air Transport Symposium
AI
IATTF IFPS Acceptance Test Task Force
IC Interrogator Code
IC Integrated Circuit
IC Intercom
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ICAEA International Civil Aviation English Association (Association internationale pour l'anglais de l'aviation civile)
L
ICARD ICAO Five-Letter Name-Code And Route Designator System (Système de codes et d'indicatifs de routes de
l'OACI)
IA
ICARD ICAO EUR/NAT Regional Database
R
ICAS International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
AI
ICAT II-Code Allocation Tool
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Acronym Full form
ICM InterCoM
L
ICNI Integrated Communications, Navigation and Identification
IA
ICNL Individual Cancel (CFMU)
R
ICNL IFPS CNL Message
AI
ICO Improved Configuration Optimiser (NEVAC)
ICP Internal CFMU Point (ENV entity type, used in all CHMI)
O
ID Identity
ID Identity (N-FDPS)
ID Information Display
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Acronym Full form
ID Identifier
ID Identification (ICAO)
L
IDC Indirect Digital Control
IA
IDD Integrated Data Dictionary
R
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics
AI
IDENT Squawk Ident (SSR function)
IDENT IDENTification
IDRF Interessengemeinschaft der regionalen Flugplätze e.V. (Community of Interests of the Regional Aerodromes
Incorporated Association)
IE Included / Exempted
IE Information Element
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Acronym Full form
L
IES Interface Editor System
IA
IESG Internet Engineering Study Group
R
IESV Instant Environment SerVer
AI
IETF Internal EATMS Task Force
IF Intermediate Frequency
L
O
IF Initial Fix (ARINC 424 Path Terminator)
TR
IF Intermediate Fix
IFATCA International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations (Fédération internationale des associations de
contrôleurs du trafic aérien)
EU
IFG-NME WG Implementation Facilitation Group of the National Management Experts Working Group
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Acronym Full form
L
IFPDSQ Individual FPD Summary Query
IA
IFPDSQR Individual FPD Summary Query Reply
R
IFPL IFPS Internal Flight Plan
AI
IFPLID Individual Flight Plan Identity code
IFPP Initial Flight Plan Processing (Traitement initial des plans de vol)
N
IFPS Integrated Initial Flight Plan Processing System (Système intégré de traitement initial des plans de vol)
O
IFPU Integrated Initial Flight Plan Processing Unit (Unité IFPS) (old name, see OPSD)
R
IFPUV "Integrated Initial Flight Plan Processing System Validation system" or "IFPS validation system"
Page 211
Acronym Full form
L
IGEB Interagency GPS Executive Board
IA
IGN Institut géographique national
R
IGP Ionospheric Grid Point
AI
IGS International GPS Reference Network
II Interrogator Identity
II Interrogator Identifier
N
IIMSES Initial Implementation of Mode S Enhanced Surveillance (a joint project of UK, France, Germany, Benelux,
O
including POEMS)
IKD States In Kind Delivery States (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, represented by their ATS providers DNA,
DFS, ENAV, AENA, NATS)
ILOAT Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (Tribunal administratif de l'Organisation
internationale du Travail (TAOIT))
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Acronym Full form
IM Information Management
IM Inner Marker
IM Instant Messaging
L
IMAGE Instrument Macroscopique d'aide à la Gestion de l'espace (FR) (CORTA)
IA
IMAGINE Improved Methods for the Assessment of the Generic Impact of Noise in the Environment
R
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
AI
IMASSA Institut de Médecine Aérospatiale du Service des Armées (FR)
IMG IMmmiGration
IMM Interacting Multiple Models, a generally applicable algorithm of track state estimation
N
IMPACT Innovative Methodology for the Projection of ATM Concepts onto the Training of ATCOs
EU
IMPACT Methods and tools to assess impact of future ATM systems on controllers' jobs (Méthodes et outils
d'évaluation de l'impact des futurs systèmes ATM sur le travail des contrôleurs)
Impl Implementation
IMPR IMPRrove(ing)
IMT IMmediaTe(ly)
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Acronym Full form
IN Included
IN(S) INch(eS)
INA Institut de la navigation aérienne (Luxembourg) / Institute of Air Navigation Services (=IANS)
L
INAC INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE AVIACAO CIVIL (Portugal)
IA
INBD INBounD
R
INC IN Cloud
AI
INCA Incident circulation aérienne (base de données des événements liés à la sécurité de l'ATM)
Ind Industry
INEXSES (ICAO Forum on) Integration and Harmonization of NextGen and SESAR
INF01 Information
C
INFO INFOrmation
O
INM Integrated Noise Model (software developed by the US FAA, manufacturer Aerospatiale Matra Airbus)
INOP INOPerative
INP INPut
INPR IN PRogress
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Acronym Full form
INREP Voluntary reporting of safety issues in Maastricht UAC (Notification volontaire d'événements liés à la sécurité
au Centre de Maastricht)
INRIA Institut national de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (FR) / National Institute for Computer Science
and Automation Research.
INST Installation
L
INSTAR Institutional Arrangements for European Air Traffic Management
IA
INSTILUX EUROCONTROL Institute of Air Navigation Services (LU)
R
INSTR INSTRument
AI
INT INTegration and swci resting phase
INT INTersection
Int International
L
O
INTEG Integration of EGNOS into Galileo
TR
INTENT Transition towards Global Air and Ground Collaboration in Traffic Separation Assurance
O
INTER INTERmittent
C
INTEROP interoperability
R
INTL International
EU
INTRG INTRerroGator
INTRP INTeRruPt(ion)
INTSF INTenSiFy(ing)
INV INVerted
Page 215
Acronym Full form
IO Input Operator
IO Input Outout
L
IOC Initial Operational (or Operating) Capability
IA
IOC Input/Output Calls
R
IOCD Initial Operational Concept Document
AI
IOCP Input / Output Configuration Programme
Page 216
Acronym Full form
IP Information Paper
IP Internet Protocol
L
IP2 Implementation Package 2 (SESAR)
IA
IP3 Implementation Package 3 (SESAR)
R
IPAG Intellectual Property Advisory Group (Policy Guidelines for Intellectual Property Rights)
AI
IPAS Integrated Preparation and Analysis System
IPAX-TF
L
Internet Protocol for Aeronautical Exchange Task Force
O
IPB Inner Performance Boundary (Tunnel Concept)
TR
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Acronym Full form
L
IPT Internal Processing Time
IA
IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4
R
IPX Internet Paquet Exchange
AI
IQ Iraq (ISO countries codes)
IQ Intelligence Quotient
IQM
L
Integrated Quality Management (for Radar Sensor)
O
IR Iran (ISO countries codes)
TR
IR Ice on Runway
IR Information Retrieval
N
IR Infra-Red
O
IR Interrogator Responder
IR Integrated Receiver
C
IRL Ireland
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Acronym Full form
L
IRR Internal Rate of Return
IA
IRS Intermediate Route Sequence (FPPS/DECADE)
R
IRS Interface Requirement Specification
AI
IRs Implementing Rules (SES)
IS Interface Specification
IS International Standard
C
IS Intermediate System
EU
Page 219
Acronym Full form
L
ISH Intermediate System Hello
IA
ISIS Improved Switch Integrated System (=Bremen VCS)
R
ISIS Integrated Standby Instrument
AI
ISL Inter-Station Link
ISO 10737 Transport Layer Management (Standards For Open Systems Interconnection And Data Communication
C
Published by ISO)
O
ISO 7498-3 Basic Reference Model Part 3, Naming And Addressing (Standards For Open Systems Interconnection And
Data Communication Published by ISO)
R
ISO 8072 Transport Service Definition (Standards For Open Systems Interconnection And Data Communication
Published by ISO)
EU
ISO 8073 Connection-Oriented Transport Protocol Specification (Standards For Open Systems Interconnection And
Data Communication Published by ISO)
ISO 8073 AD1 Connection-Oriented Transport Protocol Addendum 2, Class Four Operation Over Connectionless Network
Service (Standards For Open Systems Interconnection And Data Communication Published by ISO)
ISO 8208 International Standards Organization X.25 Packet Level Protocol for Data Terminal Equipment Document
ISO 8326 Basic Connection-Oriented Session Protocol Specification (Standards For Open System Interconnection And
Data Communication Published by ISO)
ISO 8327 Basic Connection-Oriented Session Protocol Specification (Standards For Open Systems Interconnection And
Data Communication Published by IS0)
ISO 8348 Network Service Definition (Standards For Open Systems Interconnection And Data Communication
Published by ISO)
ISO 8348 AD1 Network Service Definition, Addendum 1, Connectionless Mode Transmission (Standards For Open Systems
Interconnection And Data Communication Published by ISO)
Page 220
Acronym Full form
ISO 8473 Protocol For Providing The Connectionless-Mode Network Service (Standards For Open Systems
Interconnection And Data Communication Published by ISO)
ISO 8649 Service Definition For The Association Control Service Element (Standards For Open Systems
Interconnection And Data Communication Published by ISO)
ISO 8650 Protocol Specification For The Association Control Service Element (Standards For Open Systems
Interconnection And Data Communication Published by ISO)
ISO 8822 Connection-Oriented Service Definition (Standards For Open Systems Interconnection And Data
Communication Published by ISO)
ISO 8823 Connection-Oriented Presentation Protocol (Standards For Open Systems Interconnection And Data
Communication Published by ISO)
L
IA
ISO 8878 International Organisation For Standard Use Of X25 To Provide OSI (Open Systems Interconnection)
Connection Mode Network Services (Standards For Open Systems Interconnection And Data Communication
Published by ISO)
R
ISO 9000 International Standards For Quality Management, 1990
AI
ISO 9072-1 Remote Operations - Part 1, Model. Notation And Service Definition (Standards For Open Systems
Interconnection And Data Communication Published by ISO)
ISO 9072-2 L
Remote Operations - Part 2, Protocol Specification Version (Standards For Open Systems Interconnection
And Data Communication Published by ISO)
O
ISO 9545 Protocol For Providing The Connectionless-Mode Network Service (Standards For Open Systems
TR
ISO 9595 Common Management Information Service Definition (Standards For Open Systems Interconnection And
Data Communication Published by ISO)
N
ISO 9596 Management Information Protocol - Part 1, Specification (Standards For Open Systems Interconnection And
Data Communication Published by ISO)
O
ISOL ISOLated
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Acronym Full form
ISS Implementation Support Services ; Implementation Support to States / Services de mise en oeuvre rendus
aux Etats
L
ISSRE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
IA
ISSS Initial Sector Suite System (FAA)
R
IST Indirect Support Task
AI
IST Inter-colonial (or Atlantic) Standard Time, UTC -4h. (USA)
IT Integration Team
N
IT Information Technology
C
IT Institutional Training
O
ITASPS Informal International Civil Aviation Organisation Trans Siberia, Trans Asia, Cross Polar Routes Steering
Group (ICAO)
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Acronym Full form
ITF In-Trail-Follow
L
ITI Italian Interface
IA
ITID Individual Training- Instructor-dependent
R
ITIRS International Terrestrial Reference System
AI
ITL Integration Team Leader
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Acronym Full form
ITY Interoperability
L
IUT Implementation Under Test
IA
IVATF International Volcanic Ash Task Force
R
IVN Intervening Network
AI
IVR Immersive Virtual Reality
IW Inter-Working
O
I²FPS Integrated Initial Flight Plan Processing System (CFMU) = Système intégré de traitement initial des plans de
vol
JAA Joint Aviation Authority, Joint Aviation Authorities (Autorités conjointes de l'aviation)
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Acronym Full form
JAN JANuary
L
JAOTF Joint AOT-ODSG Task Force
IA
JAR Joint Aviation Regulations
R
JAR Joint Aviation Rules
AI
JAR-ATSOPS Joint Airworthiness Requirements-Air Traffic Services-Operations
JFSS Flight Segment Store (every Route Segment in all Active CPLs)
JHCT Hash Code Table (list of all SPN, & Active + Inactive CPLs)
JIAAC Junta Investigadora de Accidentes de Aviación Civil = Venezuelan Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Board
JIPS Internal Points Store (entry & Exit points of MATRAC area)
JISSA Joint International Symposium on Sensors and Systems for Airport Surveillance
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Acronym Full form
JITT Initiation Track Table (SSR plots which can initiate tracks)
L
JMC Job Management Committee
IA
JMDS Message Display Store (all ECM)
R
JMS Java Messaging Service
AI
JMT Job Management Team
JRPS Reporting Point Store (list of all RPs + active CPL TPs)
Page 226
Acronym Full form
L
JTST JeTSTream
IA
JU Joint Undertaking
JUL JULy
R
JUN JUNe
AI
JURG Joint Users Requirements Group (EUROCONTROL Representative in the IATA/AEA )
K Kelvin
L
O
k SI symbol for kilo- (1000)
TR
KABA Kontrastive Aufgabenanalyse in Büro (DE) / Contrastive Task Analysis of Office Workplaces
KAR Karlsruhe
N
KARLDAP Karlsruhe Automatic Data Processing and Display System (replaced by VAFORIT as of December 2010)
O
kB kilobyte
C
kByte kilobyte
KfV Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit (AT) / The Austrian Traffic Safety Board
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Acronym Full form
kg kilogram(s)
kHz kilohertz
L
KLDAP KARLDAP + Langen (D)
IA
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
R
Klu Koninklijke Luchtmacht (NL) - Royal Dutch Air Force
AI
KM kilometre (SI designation should be km)
km kilometre
KNMI Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (NL) / Royal Netherlands Meteorology Institute
KNW KNoWn
N
KP KePt
KP Start of Pulsing
C
kPa kilopascal(s)
O
KR Knowledge of Result
KR 20 A measure of the internal consistency, or homogeneity, or scalability, of a test material (Ferguson, 1976).
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Acronym Full form
Kurtosis A term which refers to the flatness or peakedness of one distribution in relation to another (Ferguson, 1976).
kW kilowatt
L
KYB Keyboard
IA
KybCmd KeYBoard CoMmanD
L Luxembourg
R
L Locator
AI
L Left (runway ID)
L Left (N-FDPS)
L/T Long-Term
L1K GLONASS Central Frequency (1.602 GHz) and channel number separator (k)
O
L2 Layer 2
EU
L2 CL L2 Civil-Long Code
L2 CM L2 Civil-Moderate Code
L2K GLONASS Central Frequency (1.246 GHz) and channel number separator (k)
L3 Layer 3
LA Limited Airspace
LA LAN Adapter
LA Local Area
LA Logical Address
LA Local Action
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Acronym Full form
L
LAB Legal Advisory Board
IA
LAB LABel conflict management (DCP)
R
LABEL Allocate a callsign to an indicated LABEL
AI
LAC Luxembourg Assistant Controller
LACK positive logical response message used for air/ground data communications, as defined within the ICAO
Manual for ATS Data Link Applications
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Acronym Full form
L
LAR/LRR Long Range Radar
IA
LARA Local and Regional ASM application / gestion locale et régionale de l'espace aérien
R
LAS Last Assigned Landing Slot
AI
LAS Lower Airspace Sector
LAT Latitude
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Acronym Full form
LB pound(s) weight
LC Light Control
LC Low Capacity
L
LCC Lifetime Cycle Costing
IA
LCC low-cost carrier
R
LCCS Local Control and Correction Station
AI
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LCIP
L
Local Convergence and Implementation Plan (Plan local de convergence et de réalisation) (now replaced by
O
LSSIP)
LCIPD Local Convergence and Implementation Plan Document (now replaced by LSSIP (documents))
TR
LD Line Detector
LD Loop Disconnect
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Acronym Full form
LDG LanDinG
L
LDM Limited Distance Modem
IA
LDPA Low Duty Cycle Power Amplifier
R
LDR Light Dependent Resistor
AI
LDRP Local Display Recording and Playback
Lec Lecture
LEFCO Project for the procurement of new ATM facilities in Nicosia ACC
C
Lempel-Ziv-Welch LZW
R
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Acronym Full form
LF Line Feed
LF Low Frequency
L
LFHB Low Flying Handbook
IA
LFL Last (reported) Flight Level
R
LFN Lufthansa Flight Nav (European Datahouse)
AI
LFP Low Pass Filter
LGT LiGhT(ing)
C
LGTD LiGhTeD
O
LI Length Indicator
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Acronym Full form
LIP Light-pen
L
LIR Local Internet Registry
IA
LIRL Low Intensity Runway Lights
R
LISATM Lisbon Air Traffic Management
AI
LISP List Processing
LL LAT-LON (N-FDPS)
LM Layer Management
LM Locator, Middle
LM Logistics Manager
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Acronym Full form
L
LN AMP Low Noise Amplifier
IA
LNA Low Noise Amplifier
R
LNAV Lateral Navigation
AI
LNG LoNG (Describing approach type required)
LO Liaison Officer
L
O
LO Lockout override
TR
LO Locator, Outer
LO Local Oscillator
N
LOC Localiser
Page 236
Acronym Full form
LON Longitude
LONG Longitude
L
LOPAR Low Powered Acquisition Radar
IA
LORAN Long Range Navigation
R
LORAN Long Range Aids to Navigation
AI
LORAN-C Long Range Navigation /Hyperbolic Navigation System
LP Light Pen
EU
LQ Listening Quality
LR Linear Regression
Page 237
Acronym Full form
L
LRM Line Replaceable Module
IA
LRM Logical Rejection Message
R
LRPS Local Recording and Playback System
AI
LRR Long Range Radar (SRE)
LS LoudSpeaker
C
Page 238
Acronym Full form
L
LST Traffic Listing
IA
LSU Lone Signal Unit
R
Lt Sequence Time Requirement
AI
LT Local Time
LU Logical Unit
LU Late Updater
LU Local User
LU Luxembourg
LU Logical User
Page 239
Acronym Full form
L
LV Length of Packet Header field
IA
LV Length of User Data (field)
LV Last Value
R
LV Latvia (ISO 2 character country Code)
AI
LV Laser Vision
LVL LeVeL
LWR LoWeR
EU
M Modules (replaceable)
M Many-to-Many relationship
M Management
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Acronym Full form
M/F Mainframe
M/T Medium-Term
MA Message Area
L
MA Message-A (field)
IA
MA Membership Agreement /Accord des membres fondateurs (SESAR-JU)
R
MA Member Association
AI
MA Message Assurance
MA-AFAS More Autonomous Aircraft in the Future Air Traffic Management System
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Acronym Full form
MADAP Maastricht Data Processing and Display System (Système de traitement et d'affichage automatique des
données du Centre de Maastricht)
L
MAESCAPE EUROCONTROL Simulation Capability and Platform for Experimentation tailored to Maastricht UAC
IA
requirements
MAESTRO Means to Aid Expedition and Sequencing of Traffic with Research and Optimisation / Moyen d'Aide à
R
Ecoulement Séquencé du Trafic avec Recherche d'Optimisation
AI
MAEVA Master ATM European Validation Plan
MAG Magnetic
MAINT MAINTenance
O
MALSR Medium Intensity Approach Lighting System with Runway Alignment Indicator Lights (USA)
R
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Acronym Full form
MAP Mapping
L
MAPI Messaging Application Programming Interface
IA
MAPSG Mode S & ACAS Programme Steering Group (Groupe de pilotage du Programme Mode S et ACAS)
R
MAR Mode-A Reconstructor
AI
MAR MARch
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Acronym Full form
L
MASPS Minimum Aviation System Performance Standards
IA
MASPS Minimum Aviation/Aircraft System Performance Specifications (ICAO)
R
MASS Military Approach Surveillance System
AI
MAST Multi-Aircraft Simulation Terminal
MASUAC
L
Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (Centre de contrôle de l'espace aérien supérieur de Maastricht)
O
MAT Mackinnon-Aerospace and Training
TR
MATIAS Magyar (Hungarian) Automated and Integrated Air Traffic Control System
O
MATSE Meeting of ECAC Transport Ministers on the Air Traffic System in Europe (Réunion des Ministres de la CEAC
sur le système de circulation aérienne en Europe)
MAX MAXimum
MAY MAY
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Acronym Full form
mb millibar(s)
MB MariBor
MB megabyte
MB Message-B (field)
Mb Milibars
L
MB-II Multibus II (RMCDE)
IA
mbar millibar
R
MBD Microwave Barrier Detector
AI
MBI Message Block Identifier
MByte megabyte
C
MC Message-C (field)
O
MC Medium Capacity
EU
MC Main Computer
MC Middleware Channel
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Acronym Full form
L
MCG Maastricht Coordination Group (Groupe de Coordination de Maastricht)
IA
MCG Minimum Climb Gradient
R
MCI Mobile Communication Infrastructure
AI
MCM Model Configuration Management
md Man Day
Page 246
Acronym Full form
MD Management Domain
L
MDA Manageable Danger Area
IA
MDA/H Minimum Descent Altitude/Height
R
MDC Maintenance Diagnostic Computer
AI
MDD Meteorological Data Distribution (function)
ME Message Editing
Page 247
Acronym Full form
MEC FG Military European Convergence and Implementation Plan (ECIP) Focus Group
MECA Model for the Economical evaluation of the Capacities of the ATM system
L
MEDA (MEDA I, MEDA [the financial instrument of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership] - MEDA 12 : Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel,
II) Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, the Palestinian Territory, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.
IA
MEDICIS Mécanisme d'Echange et de Diffusion d'Information Cartes Inter Systèmes (FR)
R
MEDLL Multipath Delay Lock Loop
AI
MEDUP Mediterranean Upgrade Programme
MEFISTO L
Modelling, Evaluating and Formalising Interactive Systems using Tasks and Interaction Objectives
O
MEG Magnetoencephalography
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Acronym Full form
MET Meteorological services for air navigation (Services météorologiques pour la navigation aérienne)
L
MET/TF Task Force on the Allocation of Meteorological Costs to Civil Aviation Users
IA
METAR METeorological Aerodrome or Aeronautical Report
METCE Modèle pour l'Échange des informations sur le Temps, le Climat et l'Eau (WMO)
R
MEU Medical Examination Unit
AI
MEURO Millions of EURO
MF Multi-Frequency
MF Multi-Field
L
O
MF More Frames
TR
MF More Fragments
MF Manning Factor
N
MF Metering Fix
MF Multiplication Factor
C
Page 249
Acronym Full form
MFF Mediterranean Free Flight (Project) (Projet méditerranéen de vol en mode libre)
L
MFI MainFrame Interactive
IA
MFL Military Flight List
R
MFPU Mobile Field Processing Unit
AI
MFS Mainframe Systems Team (phased-out system)
MGT Management
C
MHz megahertz
MIAT Mission d'inspection administrative et technique / Administrative and Technical Inspection Committee (=ATIC)
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Acronym Full form
MICOG Mode S Interrogator Code Coordination Group (Groupe de coordination de l'allocation des codes
d'interrogateur Mode S)
MICUP Méthode d'Interaction Constante des Unités Programmées / Computerised unit constant interaction method.
L
MIDA Message Interchange Distributed Application
IA
MIDAS Man-machine Integration Design analysis System
R
MIDE Madap Integrated Development Environment
AI
MIDS Multi-Function Information Distribution System
MIL Military
O
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Acronym Full form
MIN MINute(s)
min minutes
L
MINIPLN Set of Flight plan related information provided by an FPPS to an ARTAS Unit, used for track labelling
IA
MINIT Minutes in Trail
R
MIO Münster Input Operator
AI
MIO Military sector Input Operator
MIRACULIX Multi Interface Radarformat Calculator and User Line Information Exchange
O
MITRE R&D company associated with the Massachussets Institute for Technology
Mk Mark
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Acronym Full form
ML Mean Level
ML Maximum Likelihood
ML Military
L
MLDT Mean Logistic Down Time
IA
MLE Maastricht Legal Expert
R
MLS Manual Line Switch
AI
MLT Multilateration
mm millimetre
MM Middle Marker
L
O
mm Man-Month
TR
MM Mental Model
MM Middle Marker
N
MM Mobility Management
O
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Acronym Full form
MNM MiNiMum
L
MNPC Muac North Planning Coordinator
IA
MNPS Minimum Navigation Performance Specification
R
MNRC1 Muac North sector position
AI
MNRC2 Muac North Radar Controller 2
MNT MoNiTor(ed)(ing)
N
MNTN MaiNTaiN
O
MO Maintenance opérationnelle
C
MOB Mobile
R
MOCBITE Maastricht Operational Computer Based Information, Training and Examination System
MOD MODification
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Acronym Full form
Mode S-SG Sub-Group for the initial implementation of Mode S Enhanced Surveillance
L
MODREG ATFM Regulation Modification Message
IA
MOF Mode of Flight
R
MOFL Longitudinal Mode of Flight
AI
MOFR Mode S FDPS Requirements
MON MONday
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Acronym Full form
L
MOTNE Meteorological Operational Telecommunications Network Europe
IA
MOU MOUse pointing device
R
MOUSES Mode-s Operational USe of Enhanced Surveillance
AI
MOUSES TF Mode S Operational Use of Enhanced Surveillance Task Force
MOV
L
MOVe rlb: mkr moves picture to the desired centre position
O
MOW Message Out Window
TR
Mp Microprocessor
O
MP Maintenance Plan
MP Mapping
C
MP Manpower Planning
O
MP Message Priority
R
MP Mental Picture
EU
MPC Multimedia PC
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Acronym Full form
L
MPLCO Map Parameter List Communication Object
IA
MPLS Multi-Protocol Label Switching
R
MPO Maastricht Project Office
AI
MPO Management Project Office
MPR
L
Swedish National Board for Measurement and Testing
O
MPR Medium Powered Radar
TR
MR Mobile Router
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Acronym Full form
L
MREA Multi Radar Environment Assessment
IA
MRF Mobile Routing Facility
R
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
AI
MRI Master Record Index (MAS - ODS)
MRK MaRKer
L
O
MRL Minimum Risk Level
TR
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Acronym Full form
MRU Projekt Marknadsföring Rekrytering Urval och Utbildning (SE) / Project for marketing, recruitment, selection
and training for ATCO students, in Sweden
MS Microsoft
MS Middleware Service
MS MinuS
ms millisecond
L
MS Message Store
IA
MS Maintenance spécialisée
R
MS TF Mode S System Task Force
AI
MS-DTS Medium Speed-Data Transmission System
msec millisecond
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Acronym Full form
MSG Message
L
MSHT Material Standardisation Harmonisation Team
IA
MSI IR Implementing Rule on Mode S Interrogator Code Allocation
R
MSL Mean Sea Level
AI
MSN Multiple Subscriber Number
Page 260
Acronym Full form
L
MT Message Transfer
IA
MT MounTain
MT Message Type
R
MT Magnetic Track
AI
MT Malta (ISO 2 characters country Code)
MT Mosaic Table
Page 261
Acronym Full form
L
MTL Message Transfer Layer
IA
MTMA Major TMA
R
MTOM Maximum Take-Off Mass
AI
MTOT Managed take-off Time
Page 262
Acronym Full form
MTX MaTriX
L
MUAC Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (Centre de contrôle de l'espace aérien supérieur de Maastricht)
IA
MUACC Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (Centre de contrôle de l'espace aérien supérieur de Maastricht)
R
MUF Maximum Usable Frequency
AI
MUFTIS Model Use of Fast-Time Simulation
MUX MUltipleXer
O
MUX Multiplex
MV Motor Vessel
C
MV Monitoring Value
O
mW milliwatt
MW megawatt
mw Man Week
MW Microwave link
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Acronym Full form
L
MWT(A) Mean Waiting Time, Administrative
IA
MWTP Mean Willingness to Pay
R
MX MiXed type of ice formation (white & clear)
AI
MXCOP MADAP Exit Coordination Point
N Neper
N5 Number 5
NA Navigation aérienne
NA National Administration
NA non-Active
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NACMA NATO Agency for Air Command and Control System Management
L
NAD Network Added Delay
IA
NADC NATO Air Defence Committee
R
NADIN National Airspace Data Interchange Network (US)
AI
NADPS Noise Abatement Departure Procedures
Page 265
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L
NAS National Airspace System (US)
IA
NAS National Airspace
R
NAS Network Administration System (DAKOS, FFM / RAPNET - MAS UAC)
AI
NAS-Plan National Airspace Plan
NASA US National Aeronautics & Space Administration (Administration nationale de l'aéronautique et de l'espace )
NAT CADAG North Atlantic Communications Automation and Data Link Applications Group
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L
NATMC National Airspace and Traffic Management Centre (Germany)
IA
NATMC NATO Air Traffic Management Committee (Comité OTAN de gestion de la circulation aérienne)
R
NATN (Swedish) National Aeronautical telecommunications Network
AI
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAV NAVigation(al)
N
NAVSTAR Navigation Satellite Timing and Ranging System (Original name of military GPS)
NB NorthBound
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NC No Change
NC Number of C-Segment
NC non-Compliant
NC Non-Conformance
NC Non-Critical
L
NC Navigation Computer (Eurofighter)
IA
NC Normally Connected
NC Normally Closed
R
NCAA Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority
AI
NCAA NATO Civil Aviation Agency - Agence OTAN de l'aviation civile
Page 268
Acronym Full form
ND Navigation Display
ND Number of D-Segment
L
NDA Next Data Authority (ICAO)
IA
NDB Non-Directional Beacon
R
NDBX open navigation data base standard
AI
NDE Node Processor
NE Network Element
O
NE North-East
NEASCOG NATO/EUROCONTROL Air Traffic Management (ATM) Security Coordinating Group (Groupe de coordination
OTAN-EUROCONTROL pour la sécurité en matière de gestion de la circulation aérienne)
NEB North-EastBound
NEGATIVE RA RA applying maximum vertical rate (eg don't descend > 500 ft/min)
Page 269
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L
NERS North Atlantic European Routing System
IA
NES Navigation Ground Earth Station
R
nest Network Strategic Tool
AI
Net Network
NET BD
L
Network Capacity Business Division (EUROCONTROL - DAP Business Directorate)
O
NET-TF Network Management Task Force
TR
NF Noise Figure
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Acronym Full form
L
NFT Nominal Flight Trajectory
IA
NFT Never Filtered Tracks
R
NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
AI
NGAP Next Generation Aviation Professionals
NGT NiGhT
N
NH Network Header
O
NI Navigation Infrastructure
EU
NILU Norsk institutt for luftforskning (Norwegian Institute for Air Research)
NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency (of the US Department of Defence (DOD)
Page 271
Acronym Full form
NIMS Network Information Management System / Système de gestion des informations à l''échelle du réseau
NIS Network Information Services (now replaced by Operational Collaboration or Operational Applications)
L
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.A.)
IA
NIT Nordic Implementation Team
R
NITA New Information Technologies in Aviation
AI
NITS Nature of the emergency, (crew's) Intentions, Time frame, Special instructions
NKZ Netzkontrollzentrale
NL The Netherlands
L
O
NL Network Layer
TR
NM North Marker
Nm Newton Metre
NM Network Manager (NB - "NM" should not be used for "Network Management")
Page 272
Acronym Full form
L
NMF Network Management Function
IA
NMIL Nieuw Milligen
R
NML NorMaL
AI
NMOC Network Manager Operations Centre
NNW North-North-West
NO Normally Open
NO Network Operator
NOAAPORT National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Data Transmission System (US)
Page 273
Acronym Full form
NOG OA&M NOG Operations, Administration & Maintenance Subgroup (CNG - CBN)
L
NOMAS NOTAM Management System (NL)
IA
NOMSG Number Of MeSsaGes
R
NOP Network Operations Plan (Plan d'exploitation du réseau )
AI
NOP Network Operations Portal
NOPIA
L
Nouvel outil de production de l'information aéronautique
O
NOPLA Network Operations Planner
TR
NOT No Transfer
NOT Notam
NOV NOVember
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Acronym Full form
NP Network Protocol
L
NPIAS National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (US)
IA
NPL Night Plan
R
NPM Node and Process Management
AI
NPO Scientific and Development Association [Russian]
NPO KIP [Russian]. Scientific Production Organisation ; Scientific Production Institute of Space Device Building
NPO PM
L
[Russian]. NPO Prikladnoi Mekhaniki (RU) / Scientific Production Institute for Applied Mechanics
O
NPR Noise Preferential Routes
TR
NR Normal Response
O
NR NumbeR
R
NR Non-Reserved Bandwidth
EU
NR Noise Rating
Nr. Number
Page 275
Acronym Full form
NS Next Sector
L
Ns Nimbo Stratus
IA
ns Nanosecond
NS Navigation Separation
R
NS Navigation Specifications
AI
NSA National Supervisory Authority (Autorité de surveillance nationale)
NSA - SOCA
L
NSA Training Intiative: Oversight of Competence Arrangements for ATM staff
O
NSA - SOSM NSA Training Initiative: Oversight of Safety Management Arrangements in ATM
TR
Page 276
Acronym Full form
L
NSVN NATO Secure Voice Network
IA
NSWC Naval Surface Warfare Centre
R
NT Microsoft Windows NT Operating System
AI
NT Network Termination
NTPI New Travel Policy Implementation (Mise en oeuvre de la nouvelle politique en matière de missions)
NTRY Entry
Page 277
Acronym Full form
NTW NeTWork
L
NUDET Nuclear Detection
IA
NUL blank
R
NVA Navigational Aid (ENV entity item, used in all CHMI)
AI
NVG Night Vision Goggles
NWB North-WestBound
NXT Next
C
NY New York
NZ New Zealand
O Oceanic
O/R On Request
O/R Originator/Recipient
OA Office Automation
OACA Office of Airports and Civil Aviation / Office des Aéroports et de l'Aviation Civile
Page 278
Acronym Full form
OACI Organisation de l'Aviation Civile Internationale / International Civil Aviation Organization (= ICAO)
L
OASIS Operational Application of Special Intelligence Systems
IA
OASIS Open Architecture for Simulation Systems (Architecture ouverte pour systèmes de simulation)
R
OASIS Oceanic Area System Improvement Study
AI
OASIS Open ATC System Integration Strategy (OCD)
OBST OBSTacle
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Acronym Full form
OC Optical Carrier
OC Other Centre
OC Object Correlator
L
OCA Obstacle Clearance Altitude
IA
OCA/H Obstacle Clearance Altitude/Height
R
OCC Operations Control Centre
AI
OCC Olno Coordinating Controller
OCC
L
(Safety) Occurence - CFMU Safety Management System
O
OCCAR Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en matière d'Armament
TR
OCNL OCcasioNaL(ly)
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Acronym Full form
L
OCS Operational Control System
IA
OCT Operating Control Terminal
R
OCT Onward Clearance Time
AI
OCT OCTober
OCTOPUS
L
Off-line Concentrator based TOken ring Protocol User Support
O
OCTS Ods Contract Technical Specification
TR
OD Optional Data
R
Page 281
Acronym Full form
ODID Operational Display and Input Device (Dispositif d'affichage et d'entrée de données)
L
ODP Optimised Descent Profile
IA
ODP operational deployment package
R
ODP ATM Operational Requirements & Data Processing
AI
ODS Operator Input and Display System (système d'entrée et d'affichage de données)
ODSG
L
Operations and Development Sub-Group (Sous-groupe "Opérations et développement")
O
ODSGADC ODSG ATFM Delay Calculation
TR
OE operating environment
C
OEC-Est Organe Exécutif Central pour l'Europe Orientale (CFMU) / Central Executive Unit East (=CEU-E)
EU
OEC-Ouest Organe Exécutif Central pour l'Europe Occidentale (CFMU) / Central Executive Unit West (=CEU-W)
OF Option Flag
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Acronym Full form
OFAC Office Fédéral de l'Aviation Civile (CH) / Federal Office for Civil Aviation (=FOCA)
L
OFL Off-Line
IA
OFP TF OAT Flight Plan Task Force
R
OFST Offset (N-FDPS)
AI
OFZ Obstacle Free Zone (US)
OH Operational Handbook
N
OHD OverHeaD
OI Operational Improvement
R
OI Operator Interface
EU
OIFG "Originating Region Code Assignment Method (ORCAM) Improvement Focus Group" or "ORCAM
Improvement Focus Group"
OIG Operational Implementation Group (Groupe de travail chargé de la mise en oeuvre opérationnelle)
OJ Official Journal
Page 283
Acronym Full form
OL Operating Location
L
OLA Operational Level Agreement
IA
OLDI On-Line Data Interchange (Échange de données en ligne)
R
OLDISP OLDI Specialist Panel
AI
OLE Object Linking & Embedding
OM Original Message
C
OM Ministerial Order
O
OM Operations Manual
R
OM Outer Marker
OMC Operational Monitoring Complex ; Operational Monitoring Cell (ACAS, AIG Subgroup)
Page 284
Acronym Full form
ONL On-Line
L
ONP Open Network Provision (Telecommunications)
IA
OO Object Oriented
R
OOD Object Oriented Design
AI
OoD Office of Director (of CFMU)
OOOI Out (Departure Block Time)-Off (Take-off)-On (Landing)-In (Arrival Block time)
OP Operational (issues)
O
OP Organisational Productivity
R
OPC OPto-Coupler
Page 285
Acronym Full form
OPER OPERative
L
OPLINK Operational Data Link (Panel)
IA
OPLINK-P Operational Data Link Panel
R
OPM Office of Personnel Management
AI
OPM Operational Position Management
OPR ATM Operational Requirements (EATCHIP Domain) ; ATM Working Rules and Operational Requirements
C
OPS Operations
OPS Operational
OPTF OCG Prioritisation Task Force / Équipe spéciale sur la fixation des priorités de l'OCG
OPTIMAL Optimised Procedures and Techniques for Improvement of Approach and Landing
Page 286
Acronym Full form
OR Originator-Recipient
OR Operational Requirement
L
ORA Operational Research and Analysis Group
IA
ORAS-TF Operational Requirements for ATS Systems Task Force
R
ORCAM Originating Region Code Assignment Method (SSR)
AI
ORD indication of an ORDer
OREGIN
L
Organisation of European GNSS equipment and Service Industries
O
ORG "CFMU Safety Organisation and Responsibilities" component of the SMS
TR
ORG Organisation
ORG ORiGinal
N
ORGN Originator
Page 287
Acronym Full form
OS Operating System
OS Originating System
OS Organisation syndicale
L
OSA Operational Support Applications team (Équipe « Applications d'appui opérationnel »)
IA
OSA Operational Safety Assessment
R
OSCAR Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio
AI
OSD Operational Scenarios Document
OSM Operational Systems Management section (of ENGD) (Section « Gestion des systèmes opérationnels »)
Page 288
Acronym Full form
OT Operational Training
L
OTF Operational Task Force
IA
OTF On Top Fix
R
OTF/BFWG Combined Operational, Technical/Budgetary & Financial Working Group
AI
OTGS Ods - Target Generation System
OTH OTHer
OTH Over-the-Horizon
L
O
OTH (R) Over The Horizon (Radar)
TR
OTS Off-The-Shelf
R
OU Organisational Unit
OUBD OUtBounD
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Acronym Full form
OURASIE Ourasie Toolkit, software X-windows toolkit built above Xt Intrinsics layer (CENA in-house product)
OV operational view
OVC OVerCast
L
OVO OpenView Operations
IA
OVV Onderzoeksraad Voor Veiligheid (Dutch Safety Board)
R
Own TCAS II equipped aircraft - source of TCAS event
AI
OWN select/deselect line 3 of OWN traffic labels
P Prohibited Area
N
P Process Log
O
P Priority
P-t-P Point-to-Point
p.t.t Push-to-Talk
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Acronym Full form
P/F Poll bit (in command frame) and Final bit (in response frame)
P1 Pulse 1 (SSR)
P2 Protocol No 2
P2 Pulse 2 (SSR)
L
P2FEP PETAL II Front End Processor
IA
P2GW Petal II GateWay
R
P3 Pulse 3 (SSR)
AI
P3 submission & delivery Programme
P35 Protocol No 3
P4 Pulse 4 (SSR)
L
O
P5 Pulse 5
TR
P6 Pulse 6
PA Public Address
O
PA Power Amplifier
PA Passenger Address
C
PA Provisional Acceptance
O
PA Participating Area
R
PA Precision Approach
EU
Page 291
Acronym Full form
L
PAK Pilot Acknowledgement (service)
IA
PAL Programmable Array Logic
R
PAL Procedure Assurance Level
AI
PALLAS Phased Automation of the Hellenic ATC System (new Greek ATC System)
PANS-ABC Procedures for Air Navigation Services - ICAO Abbreviations and Codes (ICAO Doc. 8400)
PANS-ATM Procedures for Air Navigation Services - Air Traffic Management (ICAO Doc 4444)
PANS-OPS/I Procedures for Air Navigation Services - Aircraft Operations - Flight Procedures (ICAO Doc. 8168/I)
PANS-OPS/II Procedures for Air Navigation Services - Aircraft Operations - Construction of Visual & Instrument Flight
Procedures (ICAO Doc. 8168/II)
PANS-RAC Procedures for Air Navigation Services - Rules of the Air and Air Traffic Services
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Acronym Full form
PARADISE Prototype of an Adaptable and Reconfigurable ATM Demonstration and Integration Simulator Environment
PARL PARaLlel
L
PARS Performance Analysis & Reporting System
IA
PARZOC Parabolic Approximation of Aircraft Performance for use in a ZOC
R
PASAS Predictive Airborne Separation Assurance System
AI
PASS Performance and Safety Aspects of STCA - full study (Étude globale de la performance et de la sécurité
STCA)
PATIN Protection of Air Transportation and Infrastructure (Protection du transport aérien et de l'infrastructure
connexe)
PATROCLOS Peripheral Airports Terminal Radars, ODS and Centrally Linked Operations System
PAX PAssenger(s)
PB Project Board
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Acronym Full form
L
PBRA Plot Based Resolution Analysis
IA
PBTG Performance-Based Transition Guidelines
R
PBX Private Branch Exchange
AI
PC Protocol Control (bits)
PC Protocol Field
PC Planning Coordinator
PC Peripheral Controller
N
PC Personal Computer
PCD ProCeeD(ing)
Page 294
Acronym Full form
PCI Permanent Commission for Investigation (on ATS incidents) ; Permanent Committee of Inquiry
L
PCI Protocol Control Information
IA
PCI Programme Controlled Interrupt
R
PCL Procedure Changeover Lines (IFF)
AI
PCL Pending and Coast List
Page 295
Acronym Full form
PD PHARE Demonstration
PD Plan Display
L
PD Pulse Doppler
IA
Pd Probability of detection
PD Plot Detection
R
PD Pointing Device
AI
PD Protocol Discriminator
PD Probability of Detection
Page 296
Acronym Full form
L
PDF-D Percentage of Delayed Flights on Departure
IA
PDFG PENS Development Focus Group
R
PDG Procedure Design Gradient
AI
PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
Page 297
Acronym Full form
PE Ice PEllets
PE Protected Earth
PE Process Engineering
PE Parity Error
L
PE Processor Element (CBN - CNG)
IA
PE Performance (of an Aircraft)
R
PEA Parameter and Environment Assembler
AI
PECO Pays d'Europe Centrale et Orientale (FR)
PER PERformance
PERM PERManent
Page 298
Acronym Full form
PETAL Preliminary EUROCONTROL Test of Air-Ground Data Link (Essai EUROCONTROL préliminaire de la liaison
de données air-sol)
L
PF Pilot Flying
IA
PFA Probability of False Alarm
R
Pfa Probability of False Alarm
AI
pFAST passive Final Approach Spacing Tool
PFSB EUROCONTROL Pension Fund Supervisory Board (Conseil de surveillance du Fonds de pension
EUROCONTROL)
PGM ProGraMme
Page 299
Acronym Full form
PH Presentation Header
PHARE Poland, Hungary Aid for Restructuring of the Economy (European Commission)
L
PHARE Programme for Harmonised ATM Research in EUROCONTROL (Programme de recherche harmonisée de
l'Organisation EUROCONTROL en matière de gestion de la circulation aérienne)
IA
PHAROS Plan Handling and Radar Operating System (NL - Military)
R
PHB Per-Hop Behaviours
AI
PHD Project History Document
PHIDIAS Position Harmonisant et Intégrant des Dialogues Intéractifs / Harmonizing and Interactive Dialogue Integrating
Position
PHIGS
L
Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System
O
PHM Passive Hydrogen Maser (Atomic Clock)
TR
PI Performance Indicator
PI Parity Information
O
Page 300
Acronym Full form
PICASSO Control, Analysis and Monitoring of the Spanish Air Navigation System Statistical application
L
PIF Programme Information File
IA
PIF Picture Interchange Format
R
PIM Protocol Independent Multicast
AI
PIM Programme Implementation Management
Page 301
Acronym Full form
PL Procedural Language
PL Poland
PL Plain Language
PL Protection Levels
PL Pseudolite
L
PLANE Platform for Logistics and Aviation Networks in Europe
IA
PLANO Procedures Linked to Abating Noisy Operations (ANCAT TF)
R
PLB Personal Locator Beacon
AI
PLC Programmable Logic Controller
PLNR PLaNneR
EU
PLO PLOtter
PM Project Management
PM Programme Management
PM Progress Meeting
Page 302
Acronym Full form
PM Phase Modulation
PM Presentations Manager
L
PMB Project Management Board
IA
PMBO Project Management Board Operation
R
PMC Programme Management Cell
AI
PMC Path Management Control
Page 303
Acronym Full form
L
PNNI Private Network-to-Network (or Network Node) Interface
IA
PNO Public Network Operator
R
PNT Point
AI
PNT Position, Navigation and Timing
PO Principle of Operation
PO Purchase Order
L
O
PO dust devils
TR
Page 304
Acronym Full form
POS Position
L
POSLOG POSition LOG management
IA
POST Power-On Self Test
POT POTentiometer
R
PP Present Position (Eurofighter)
AI
PPC Physical Protected Circuit
Page 305
Acronym Full form
L
PPS Precise Positioning Service
IA
pps Pulses Per Second
R
PPSDN Private Packet Switched Data Network
AI
PPSDNS Private Packet Switched Data NetworkS
PR Problem Report
PR Plot Reconstruction
C
PR Printer
O
PR Primary Radar
R
PR Path Replacement
PR Position Reporting
PR Pseudo Range
PR Packet Number
Page 306
Acronym Full form
L
PRE PREvious (centre)
IA
PRE Preview
R
Pre-OJT Pre-On-the-Job Training
AI
Pre-Simul Pre-Simulation
PREV PREVious
N
PREVI Data Processing system to support the forecast and regulation of the air traffic (FR)
C
PRISME Pan-European Repository of Information Supporting the Management of EATM (Gisement paneuropéen
d'informations à l'appui de la gestion de l'EATM)
PRKG PaRKinG
Page 307
Acronym Full form
L
PRN Pseudo Random Noise
IA
PRN Code Pseudo Random Noise Code
R
ProATN Prototype Aeronautical Telecommunications Network
AI
PROB PROBability
PROH PROHibited(ion)
O
PROT PROTected(ion)
PROV PROVisional
Page 308
Acronym Full form
PRT PRinTer
L
PRT Pulse Repetition Time
IA
PRU Performance Review Unit (Bureau d'examen des performances)
R
PS Power Supply (ACS)
AI
PS Problem Statement
PS PluS
PS Position Symbol
L
O
PS Problem Solver (PATs)
TR
Page 309
Acronym Full form
PSE PleaSE
PSG PaSsinG
L
PSMC Packet System Management and Control Channel
IA
PSMSL Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level
PSN PoSitioN
R
PSN Packet Switched Network
AI
PSN Public Switched Network
Page 310
Acronym Full form
PT Payload Type
PT Predicted Trajectory
PT ID Point Identification
L
pt to pt Point-to-Point
IA
PT502 ATS QSIG Test Equipment
R
PTC Precision Trajectory Clearance
AI
PTE POEMS Test Environment
PTM Point-to-Multipoint
O
Page 311
Acronym Full form
L
PTT Post, Telecommunications and Telegraphs
IA
PTT Part-Task Trainer
R
PTT1 the ops room PTT1 line printer
AI
PTT2 the ops room PTT2 line printer
PU Physical Unit
L
O
PU Processing Unit
TR
PV Performance Verification
EU
PV Present Value
Page 312
Acronym Full form
PWR PoWeR
L
PWS Predictive Wind Shear
IA
PWS PoWer Supply
R
PYM Payment Milestone
AI
PZ Portotroz (SI)
PÄD
L
Problemmeldungs- und Änderungsdienst (non-conformance reporting & change system)
O
Q Quadrature Component (MTI)
TR
Q Atmospheric Pressure
Q.920 ITU-T recommendation: Digital Subscriber Signalling System No.1 (DSS) ISDN User-Network Data Link
specification
C
Q.921 ITU-T recommendation: Digital Subscriber Signalling System No 1 (DSS1) - ISDN user - network data link
layer - specification
O
Q.931 ITU-T recommendation: ISDN user-network interface layer 3 specification for basic call control
R
Q.932 ITU-T recommendation: Digital subscriber signalling system No. 1 - Generic procedures for the control of
ISDN supplementary services
EU
Page 313
Acronym Full form
QA Quality Assurance
QA Quality Assurance
QA Qdm Area
QAM QA Manager
L
QAP Quality Assurance Plan
IA
QAPT Aircraft Performance Table, (Static Data Bank)
R
QAR Quality Assurance Representative (DECADE)
AI
QATL Aircraft Type List, (Static Data Bank)
Page 314
Acronym Full form
QinetiQ Formerly known as the UK 'Defence Evaluation and Research Agency' (DERA)
L
QMG oat fdg General Queue
IA
QMP Question Mark Perception
R
QMS Military Supervisor Queue
AI
QMS Quality Management System
QNH Atmospheric Pressure at Nautical Height ; Q-code designation for atmospheric pressure at mean sea level
QO Obsolete Queue
N
QQ Question
Page 315
Acronym Full form
L
QTE True bearing (ICAO)
IA
QTG Qualification Test Guide
QUAD QUADrant
R
QUASAR QUASi StellAR, (Source of radio emanations)
AI
QuestionAIR Computer-based ATM questions bank
QVZON Video ZONe = maps for UIRs and sectors, (Static Data Bank)
R Report
C
R Romania
O
R Red
R
R Right (N-FDPS)
EU
R Team Collection of air navigation charges under bilateral agreements with non-Contracting States
R Restricted Area
R En-Route
Page 316
Acronym Full form
R/T Receiver/Transmitter
R/T Radio/Telephony
L
R/T MS RadioTelephone Monitoring System
IA
R/W Runway
R
R2 EUROCONTROL Signalling Protocol
AI
R2 Signalling system used for telephone exchanges
RA Routine Area
RA Registration Authority
L
O
RA Radio Astronomy
TR
RA Random Access
RA RAin
N
RA Radio Access
O
Page 317
Acronym Full form
RAD Radar
L
RADA Regional Air Navigation Services Development Association
IA
RADA Regional ATM Development Area
R
RADAC Radar Verification Equipment in Norway
AI
RADAR Radio Detecting and Ranging
RAdio Radio
O
RADNET RADar NETwork, (for interchange of radar data in Benelux and Germany
C
RAF Reference ATN Facility (US/EUROCONTROL common project for development of the CAERAF)
RAG RAGged
Page 318
Acronym Full form
L
RAM Research Area Manager (Gestionnaire des domaines de recherche)
IA
RAM Responsability Assignments Matrix
R
RAMCC Regional Air Movement Control Centre
AI
RAMS Reorganised ATC Mathematical (Model) Simulator (EEC)
RAPID RAPID(ly)
R
RAPS Radar Analysis, Playback & Simulation System for Surveillance Data
RASA Requirements, Analysis, Strategy and Architecture (advisory group of Surveillance Team)
RASC Regional AIS System Centre (outside the ICAO EUR region); Regional AIS Service Centre (EAD)
Page 319
Acronym Full form
L
RASS Radar Analysis Support System
IA
RASS-A RASS - Airborne
R
RASS-P Radar Analysis Support System - Plot data
AI
RASS-PDP RASS - Polar Diagram Measurement Facility
Rb Rubidium
RB Reserved Bandwidth
Page 320
Acronym Full form
RC Reply Control
RC Radar Control
RC Roll-Call
L
RC Radar Controller
IA
RC Reset Cause
R
RC 12R Radio Callsign - Radio
AI
RCA Remote Client Access
Page 321
Acronym Full form
RCH ReaCH(ing)
L
RCM Statement of Basic Operation Requirement, Planning Criteria & Methods of Application (ICAO/AIS)
IA
RCM Radar Controller Message (Mil. ECM)
R
RCNL Reason(s) for cancellation
AI
RCO Route Charges Office (Service des redevances de route)
RCT ReCTifier
RD Routine Domain
RD Redirect
RD Request Disconnection
Page 322
Acronym Full form
L
RDE-FG Radar Data Exchange Focus Group
IA
RDF Radio Direction Finding
R
RDG Radar Data Generator
AI
RDI Routing Domain Identifier
RDO RaDiO
O
RDR Radar
Page 323
Acronym Full form
RE Recall
RE Real Equipment
L
REC Request EOBT Change
IA
REC RECord(ing)
REC RECeive(r)
R
REC Recommendation
AI
REC Recall (ICAO) / RECording
REDAN Red de Datos de Navegación Aérea de Aena (Spanish CAA Data Network)
N
REG Region
REG Regulators
REG REGistration
REGUL Regulation
Page 324
Acronym Full form
REL RELay
REL Release
L
REM Rapid Eye Movement
IA
REM Röntgen (or Roentgen) Equivalent Man
R
REMOCO Remote Control (Supervision System)
AI
REMP Radar Replacement and Modernisation Programme
REP Report
REPF Regulations of the EUROCONTROL Pension Fund (Règlement du Fonds de pension EUROCONTROL)
RER Rerouting
RERTE RE-RouTE
Page 325
Acronym Full form
L
RESTQ Recovery Stress Questionnaire
IA
RESTR route efficiency in straightness of trajectory
R
RET RETain the pssr for allocation to the next identical c/s
AI
RET Airborne & ground retrofit (issues)
RF Radio Frequency
C
RFCA Panel on Route Facility, Cost Accounting and Cost Allocation (ICAO)
Page 326
Acronym Full form
L
RFL Requested Flight Level
IA
RFLT Radio Frequency Unit
R
RFP Repetitive Flight Plan
AI
RFP Reference Point (ENV entity type, used in all CHMI)
RFSG Regulatory Functions Study Group / Groupe d'étude sur la fonction de réglementation
RG RanGe (lights)
RG Review Group
Page 327
Acronym Full form
L
RH Radar Head
IA
RHC Ruhr High Coordinator controller
R
RHD Radio (or Radar) Horizon Distance
AI
RHE Ruhr High Executive controller
RHEA Role of the Human in the Evolution of Air Traffic Management systems
RI Reliability Indicator
N
RI Radar Information
O
RI Route Intercept
RI Routing Information
C
RI Ring-In (connection)
O
Page 328
Acronym Full form
L
RIPE Required Information Performance Concept
IA
RIRP Runway Incursion Reduction Program
R
RIS Relational Interface System
AI
RIS Route Implementation Summary
RJ ReJect (TPDU)
O
RL Reference Location
RL Reverse Link
RL Report Leaving
RLA ReLAy to
Page 329
Acronym Full form
RLD Rijksluchtvaartdienst (Civil Aviation Department (Netherlands)) (Service de l'aviation civile (Pays-Bas))
L
RLP Remote Line Printer
IA
RLS (Flight) RuLeS
R
RLSD Released (US)
AI
RLSM Reduced Lateral Separation Minimum
RMCDE Radar Message Conversion and Distribution Equipment (Convertisseur-répartiteur de messages radar)
RMK ReMarK(s)
Page 330
Acronym Full form
L
RMS Root Mean Square
IA
RMS Error Root Mean Square error.
R
RMSpv RMS peak value.
AI
RMT Reference Mission Trajectory
RN Reference Number
L
O
RNAV Area Navigation (Navigation de surface)
TR
RNDSG Route Network Development Sub-Group (Sous-groupe " Développement du réseau de routes ATS")
RNPSORSG Required Navigation Performance Special Operational Requirements Study Group (ICAO)
Page 331
Acronym Full form
RO Read-Only
RO Router Function
RO RPL Office
RO Romania
RO Ring-Out (connection)
L
ROBIN Road billing network
IA
ROC Rate of Climb
R
ROD Rate of Descent
AI
ROE reference operating environment
Role Role-play
Page 332
Acronym Full form
RP Routing Protocol
RP Route Point
L
RP Reporting Point
IA
RP Radar Post
R
RP2 Reference Period 2 (SESAR)
AI
RPA Remotely Piloted Aircraft
RPLC RePLaCe(d)
RPM Resource and Partnership Management// Unité "Gestion des ressources et du partenariat" (DF)
Page 333
Acronym Full form
RPY Replay
L
RQ ReQuest (Indication of)
IA
RQI ReQuest for Initialisation
R
RQM Radar Quality Monitoring
AI
RQMNTS ReQuireMeNTS
RQT ReQuesTing
N
RR Report Reaching
RR Receive Ready
C
RR Radio Resource
R
RRR Radar data Recording and Replay system (RADNET / application software COMSOFT)
Page 334
Acronym Full form
RRTES Reroutes
RS Restrictions (generic concept comprising all kinds of restrictions applicable to air traffic)
L
RS Radar Surveillance
IA
RS Reference Station
R
RS Radar System
AI
RS Routeing Scheme
RS Record Separator
RSCAD Civil Aviation Department of Republic of Srpska (Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Page 335
Acronym Full form
L
RSO Route per State Overflown
IA
RSOQ Radar Stores Occupancy Query
R
RSP Response
AI
RSP Required Surveillance Performance
Page 336
Acronym Full form
RT Real Time
RT Receive Transmit
RT Route Table
RT Radio Telecommunication
RT Radio Telephony
L
RT-VBR Real Time - Variable Bit Rate
IA
RT1 ats RouTes & reporting points (Including TACAN G1)
R
RT2 weekend RouTes & reporting points + link RouTes
AI
RT2 RouTe 2 map
RTE Route
RTF Radiotelephone
Page 337
Acronym Full form
RTG RadioTeleGraph(y)
L
RTK Real-Time Kinematic
IA
RTK revenue tonne-kilometre
R
RTLS Return To Launch Site
AI
RTMDE RADNET Test Monitoring and Demonstration Equipment (colour screen)
RTN ReTurN(ed)(ing)
RTPC Réseau Téléphonique Public Commuté / Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
RTR Router
Page 338
Acronym Full form
L
RTV Real Time Video
IA
RTX Request To Send XID
R
RU Regulatory Unit (Unité de réglementation) - EUROCONTROL
AI
RU Routeing Scheme Unit (no longer in use)
RV Rescue Vessel
C
RVSM Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (Minimum réduit de séparation verticale)(of 1000ft between FL290 and
FL410 Inclusive)
Page 339
Acronym Full form
RWP EUROCONTROL Regulatory Work Programme (Programme de travail EUROCONTROL dans le domaine de
la réglementation)
RWY Runway
L
RX Receive
IA
RX Receiver Station
R
RY Route Assembly
AI
RZ Return to Zero
S Schedule cycle L
O
S Select
S Sweden
S. Select
Page 340
Acronym Full form
S/M Sequencing/Metering
S/T Short-Term
L
S/T Space / Time
IA
S/W Software
S0 Security Class 0
R
S1 The future (desired) state
AI
SA System Administrator
SA Salivary Cortisol
SA Structured Analysis
L
O
SA Selective Availability
TR
SA Source Address
SA Sub-Address
N
SA Separation Assurance
O
SA Situational Awareness
SA Selective Availability
C
SA Satellite
O
SA Security Architecture
R
SA Skill Acquisition
EU
SAAM System for Assignment and Analysis at a Macroscopic level (8.33 User Guide)
Page 341
Acronym Full form
L
SAC Source Area Code (ASTERIX)
IA
SAC System Assisted Coordination
R
SAC Solling Assistant Controller
AI
SAC System Area Code
SACTA Sistema Automatizado de Control del Tráfico Aéreo (ES) / Spanish Automated ATC System / Semi-
Automatisation de Contrôle du Trafic Aérien (FR)
SAF Safety
Page 342
Acronym Full form
L
SAF-SAAP Safety Assessment ATM Procedures
IA
SAF-SMG Safety Manager Course
R
SAFA Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft (Évaluation de la sécurité des aéronefs étrangers)
AI
SAFEE Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment (Sécurité des aéronefs dans le futur environnement
européen)
SAFER L
Safety Analysis Function EUROCONTROL and associated Repository (Projet EUROCONTROL de fonction
d'analyse de la sécurité et gisement connexe)
O
SAFER Safety and Errors
TR
SAFREP Safety Data Reporting & Data Flow (Notification des données relatives à la sécurité et flux de données)
R
Page 343
Acronym Full form
SALSA Situation Awareness bei Lotsen der Streckenflugkontrolle im Kontext von Automatisierung (situation
awareness of en-route air traffic controllers in the context of automation)
L
SAM Slot Allocation Message (Message d'attribution de créneaux) (CFMU - CASA)
IA
SAM Sequential Access Method
R
SAM South America (ICAO Region)
AI
SAM Safety Assessment Methodology (Méthodes d'évaluation de la sécurité)
SAMSO Space and Missile Organization - US Air Force Systems Command /(now Space Division)
N
SAN SANitary
O
SAPPHIRE Satellite and Aircraft Database Programme for System Integrity Research
Page 344
Acronym Full form
L
SARME Set Asynchronous Response Mode Extended
IA
SARP Signal Automatic Radar Processing (NL)
R
SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
AI
SARSAT Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking
SASI Support to ANSPs for SMS (Safety Management System) Implementation (Appui aux ANSP pour la mise en
oeuvre des systèmes de gestion de la sécurité - SMS)
SASS Surveillance Analysis Support System (Dispositif d'appui à l'analyse des systèmes de surveillance)
SASS-C Surveillance Analysis Support System for ATC-Centre (Système de surveillance pour les centres ATC)
Page 345
Acronym Full form
SAT Satellite(s)
L
SAT SATurday
IA
SAT Static Air Temperature
R
SAT/O Operational System Acceptance Testing
AI
SAT/S Stand-Alone System Acceptance Testing
SB SouthBound
SB Service Bulletin
Page 346
Acronym Full form
L
SBT Self Briefing Terminal
IA
SBT/RBT Shared Business Trajectory
R
SBU Service Business Unit
AI
SBY Stand-BY (device status)
SC Staff Committee
L
O
SC System Controller
TR
SC Special Corridor
O
SC Soft Copy
SC Senior Controller
C
SC Special Commitee
O
SC SCale
R
SC Sector Coordinator
EU
SC Standing Committee
SC Strato Cumulus
SC Simultaneous Call
SC Schedules Conference
SC String Controller
SC Sector Configuration
SC Stack Controller
Page 347
Acronym Full form
L
SCA Safety-Critical Activities
IA
SCA Serial Communication Adapter
R
SCAA Swedish Civil Aviation Authority
AI
SCAA Slovenian CAA
SCDB SASS-C db
Page 348
Acronym Full form
SCF-BP SCF Budget Process Task Force (Équipe spéciale du SCF sur le processus budgétaire)
L
SCM Subcontractor Manager
IA
SCM System Control and Monitoring
R
SCMM Safety Culture Maturity Model
AI
SCN Surveillance Coordination Network
SCR Scroll
SCRN SCReeN
SCS Squitter cA
Page 349
Acronym Full form
SCT SCaTtered
L
SCU Support Computer Unit
IA
SCU Satellite Communications Unit
R
SCU Spoiler Control Unit
AI
SCU Support Control Unit
SD Serial Dialling
L
O
SD Specialist Domain
TR
SD Special Designator
SD Surveillance Data
O
SD Storage Director
SD Starting Delimiter
C
SD Service Desk
O
SD Standard Deviation
R
SD Software Development
EU
SD Statistical Display
SDA Système de Détection Aéroporté / Airborne Early Warning and Control System (=AWACS)
SDBY StanDBY
Page 350
Acronym Full form
L
SDE Smoke DEtector
IA
SDE (EUROCONTROL) Senior Director, European Air Traffic Management Programme
R
SDE System Development Environment
AI
SDER Sous-direction des études et de la recherche appliquée
Page 351
Acronym Full form
SDOE Senior Director Operations and EATCHIP = Director principal Operations et EATCHIP
L
SDP Software Development Phase
IA
SDP Second Development Project
R
SDP Surveillance Data Processing (Sub-group CCT/EATCHIP)
AI
SDPD Surveillance Data Processing and Distribution
SDPS
L
Sous-direction de la planification et de la stratégie de la DSNA
O
SDPS Surveillance Data Processing System (Système de traitement des données de surveillance)
TR
SE Simulation Engine
SE Software Engineer
Page 352
Acronym Full form
SE Strategy Element
SE South-East
L
SEAC Service d'Etat de l'Aviation Civile
IA
SEAP South European ADS Pre-Implementation Programme
R
SEB South-EastBound
AI
SEC SECtor
SEC Security
O
SECT SECTor
SecWG Information Security Working Group (Groupe de travail sur la sécurité de l'information)
SEE-FABA South-East Europe Functional Airspace Block Activity (Approche fondée sur des blocs d'espace aérien
fonctionnels dans le Sud-Est de l'Europe)
Page 353
Acronym Full form
L
SELREL Selective Release
IA
SEM System Engineering Manager
SEM SEMaphone
R
SEM Semmerzake
AI
SEMP Software Engineering Management Plan
SEP SEPtember
L
O
SEP Selective Employment Plan
TR
SEQ SEQuence
C
SER SERvice(ing)(ed)
R
SeRT ATM Safety Regulatory Training Programme (Programme de formation à la réglementation de la sécurité de
l'ATM)
SESAR Single European Sky ATM Research (Programme) ((Programme de) recherche ATM dans le cadre du Ciel
unique européen) formerly SESAME
SESFARR Single European Sky Factual Review and Reporting (Analyse factuelle et compte rendu relatifs au Ciel unique
européen)
Page 354
Acronym Full form
SESIM SES Implementation by the Military/mise en oeuvre du SES par les militaires
SESIS Single European Sky Implementation Support (Appui à la mise en oeuvre du ciel unique européen)
L
SET ATM Security Team
IA
SETD Slot Estimated Time of Departure
R
SEV SEVere (Icing, turbulence)
AI
SEVIS Student and Exchange Visitor Program
SF Security Flights
N
SF Surveillance Function
O
SF Scaling Factor
SFIE Syndicat des Fonctionnaires Internationaux et Européens (FR) / Union of International and European Civil
Servants (=UIECS)
Page 355
Acronym Full form
L
SG Safety Group
IA
SG Sub-Group
SG Snow Grains
R
SG Sector Group (N-FDPS)
AI
SGAMI Select Group for Assessing Manpower Issues (EATCHIP)
SGL SiGnaL
N
SGR Study Group for Route Charges (Groupe d'étude pour les redevances de route)
O
SGSI Subsystema Grabador y Servidor de Información (ES) / Recording and Data server subsystem
R
SH Sub-Header
EU
SH SHowers
SH Session Header
Page 356
Acronym Full form
SI Sector Indicator
L
SI Situational Interview
IA
SI Surveillance Identity
SI Software Integrator
R
SI Système international / International System of Units
AI
SI Surveillance Identifier
SI Sistemi Integrati
SI Selective Interrogator
L
O
SI Slovenia, Republic of Slovenia
TR
SI Shift In
Page 357
Acronym Full form
L
SID Specification for Information Disclosure
IA
SID Service Identification Document
R
SIE Standard Interface Equipment
AI
SIF Successor IFF
SIFP
L
Single Initial Flight Plan (Plan de vol initial unique)
O
SIG PT Significant Point (N-FDPS)
TR
SIM SIMulator
Page 358
Acronym Full form
L
SIMMOD Simulation Model
IA
SIMP CFMU System Incident Management Procedure (ref. STD-CM/PRO/SIMP)
R
Simul Simulation
AI
SIMUL SIMULtaneous(ly)
SINTAC
L
Système Intégré d'Identification, de Navigation, de Contrôle de Trafic, d'Anticollision & de Communication
O
(FR)
SIROCCO Study of the Impact of Revised Operational Concepts on the CNS/ATM ODP Model
Page 359
Acronym Full form
L
SIT System Integration Team (EATCHIP)
IA
SIT Slot Issue Time Parameter (CFMU)
R
SIT System Implementation Team (inside EATCHIP)
AI
SIT Software Integration Test
SJU PSO SJU Project Support Office/ Bureau d'appui aux projets de la SJU
O
SK Station Keeping
R
SKED SchEDule(d)
Page 360
Acronym Full form
L
SLEP Long Range Radar Service Life Extension Program
IA
SLHW (CFMU) Second Line Hardware
R
SLI Supplementary Level Inbound (ODID)
AI
SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Card
SLW SLoW
SM System Management
Page 361
Acronym Full form
SM Suspense Message
SM Stack Manager
SM Segment Manager
SM Security Manager
SM Systems Management
SM Surveillance Map
L
SMA Surface Movement Advisor
IA
SMAA Study for Mediterranean Area ADS
R
SMAG Safety Management Advisory Group
AI
SMAN Surface Manager
SMAS Service Mobile Aéronautique par Satellite / Satellite Mobile Aeronautical Service
O
Page 362
Acronym Full form
L
SMGC(S) Surface Movement Guidance and Control System
IA
SMGCS Surface Movement Guidance and Control System
R
SMHI Swedish government-owned (civil) MET Institute
AI
SMI Structure of Management Information
Page 363
Acronym Full form
L
SMS Service Management System
IA
SMSS Surface Movement Surveillance System (airports)
R
SMT Shared Mission Trajectory
AI
SMT Station Management (FDDI / RMCDE)
SMX Sub-Multiplexer
N
SN Subscriber Number
SN SNow
C
SN Subnetwork
O
SN System Notam
R
SN Sub-Network
EU
SN Sequence Number
SN Signal-to-Noise
Page 364
Acronym Full form
L
SNDC Subnetwork Dependent Convergence
IA
SNDCF Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Function/Facility
R
SNET Safety Net (Filet de sauvegarde)
AI
SNICF Subnetwork Independent Convergence Function
SO Safety Objective
Page 365
Acronym Full form
SO Shift Out
L
SOAM Systemic Occurrence Assessment Method
IA
SoaML Service-oriented architecture Modelling Language
R
SOBT Scheduled Off-Block Time
AI
SOC System / Sector Operations Centre
SOFIA Sequentially Outlining and Follow-up Integrated Analysis (EUROCONTROL Headquarters, EATMP, DSA,
SQS)
O
Page 366
Acronym Full form
L
SOTA Shannon Oceanic Transition Area
IA
SOW Statement of Work (ODS)
SP Supervisory Packet
R
SP Special point
AI
SP Special Purpose Indicator (ASTERIX)
SP Significant Point
SP Standard Precision
L
O
SP SPace
TR
SP SPecial designator
SP Service Provider
N
SP Succession Planning
sp ground SPeed
C
Page 367
Acronym Full form
SPD Speed
L
SPDU Squitter PDU
IA
SPDU Session Protocol Data Unit
R
SPECI aviation selected SPECIal weather report (in meteo code)
AI
SpecTRM-RL Specification Tools and Requirements Methodology - Requirement Language
SPICSY Standardised communication Protocols to support Intra-centre Communications between ARTAS Systems
SPIN-TF Safety nets: Planning Implementation or eNhancements Task Force, SPIN Task Force
Page 368
Acronym Full form
L
SPN Short PlaN
IA
SPN Stochastic Petri Nets
R
SPO Strategic Plan of Operation.
AI
SPOC Single Point Of Contact
Page 369
Acronym Full form
SQ SQuall
sq-cm cm2
L
SQM Surveillance Quality Monitoring
IA
SQP Signal Quality Parameter
SQS Safety, Quality and Security Manager (CFMU) (Responsable de la sécurité, de la qualité et de la sûreté)
R
SQS Safety, Quality Management, and Standardisation (EATMP Unit)
AI
SQSM Safety Quality Security Manager
SR System Restart
SR Study Report
O
SR SunRise
SR Standard Route
C
SR Software Requirements
O
Page 370
Acronym Full form
L
SRI Stanford Research Institute
IA
SRI System Replay and Investigation
R
SRIA Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
AI
SRJ Slot Proposal Rejection message
Page 371
Acronym Full form
L
SRY SecondaRY
IA
SS Session Service
SS Server (Hardware)
R
SS Server System (ARTAS)
AI
SS System Start
Ss seconds
SS SunSet
L
O
SS Sector Supervisor
TR
SS Supervisory Subset
SSA System Safety Assessment (Evaluation de la sécurité des systèmes); Safety Security Assessment (EAD)
SSAP Strategic Safety Action Plan (Plan d'action stratégique pour la sécurité)
Page 372
Acronym Full form
L
SSDU Session Service Data Unit
IA
SSE Sum of Squared Errors
R
SSE South-South-East
AI
SSE Safety Significant Event Scheme
SSH Safety, Security & Human Factors (EATM) (Sécurité, sûreté et facteurs humains)
R
SSM BD Safety & Security Management Business Division (EUROCONTROL - DAS Business Directorate)
Page 373
Acronym Full form
L
SSPSG Structures for Service Provision Sub-Group (High-Level Group Single European Sky (EU)
IA
SSR Secondary Surveillance Radar (Radar secondaire de surveillance)
R
SSR Software Specification Review
AI
SSR Mode S Mode S Selective Address SSR
SSRBRIGH
L
create track and intensify position symbol & label
O
SSRBRIGH Highlight set code to target (input)
TR
Page 374
Acronym Full form
SSW South-South-West
ST Standard Time
ST System Testing
ST SlanT
ST STratus
L
ST Supervisory Type
IA
ST STation
ST Short-Term
R
ST Specialist Task
AI
ST Subjacent Tracked
ST Standard Paths
ST Special Task
L
O
ST-ICD Short-Term Interface Control Document
TR
STA STAtistics
N
Page 375
Acronym Full form
STAT Statistics
L
STAT Static Maps (N-FDPS)
IA
STAT Second-Time-Around Targets
R
STATFOR EUROCONTROL Statistics and Forecasts Service
AI
STATS STATisticS
STD Standard
Page 376
Acronym Full form
STF StraTiForm
L
STF ARTAS Surveillance Task Force on ARTAS Development
IA
STF-SDPS Surveillance Task Force on Surveillance Data Processing Systems
R
STFAP Surveillance Task Force on the Appraisal Programme
AI
STFDPPAS Surveillance Task Force on the Data Processing Performance Analysis Standard
STN STatioN
STNR STatioNaRy
Page 377
Acronym Full form
L
STR Service du Traitement des données Radar (F-RDPS)
IA
STR Software Test Report (ODS)
R
STR Strategic System
AI
STR (STRAT) Strategic System
STRIDA Système de Traitement, d'Identification et de Visualisation des Données de la Défense Aérienne (FR)
C
STS Status
R
Page 378
Acronym Full form
STWG Special Technical Working Group (EUROCONTROL management and trade unions)
SU Soviet Union
SU Signal Units
L
SUATMS Single Unified ATM System
IA
SUB Sub-addressing
R
SUC Start-Up Controller
AI
SUCT Surveillance analysis and Calibration Tools (ARDEP)
SUN SUNday
O
SUP Supervisor
EU
SUP Supplement
Page 379
Acronym Full form
L
SURT Surveillance Team
IA
SurvITE Surveillance Integrated Tested for EATMS
R
SUT System Under Test
AI
SUTP Software Unit Test Plan
SV System Validation
SV Synthetic Vision
L
O
SV Space Vehicle (Satellite)
TR
SV Service Volume
SV Secure Voice
N
SVC Service
EU
SVCBL SerViCeaBLe
SVP Supervisor
Page 380
Acronym Full form
SW Swerling
SW South-West
SW Software
SW Software
L
SWAP Severe Weather Avoidance Procedure
IA
SWAT Subjective Workload Assessment Technique
SWB South-WestBound
R
SWCI SoftWare Configuration Item (ODS) (equivalent to a primary subject)
AI
SWG Security Working Group (advisory sub-group of CISC) / Groupe de travail sur la sûreté
SWY StopWaY
SX SimpleX (transmission)
Page 381
Acronym Full form
L
SYLK SYmbolic LinK (graphics file format)
IA
SYMA System Manager
R
SYN TCP synchronisation message
AI
SYN SYNchronisation
SYNBA Synthetische Beanspruchungs- und Arbeitsanalyse (DE) / Synthetic Strain and Task Analysis
Sync. Synchronous
L
O
SYNT SYNTax
TR
T Tesla / Terminal
T Temperature
Page 382
Acronym Full form
L
T/R Transmit / Receive
IA
T0 Time 0
TA Transition Altitude
R
TA Target Area
AI
TA Transition Action
TA Terminal Adapter
L
O
TA Task Analysis
TR
TA Test Area
TA Track Analysis
N
TA Title Area
O
TAAM Total Airspace and Airport Modeller (Preston Group, Victoria, Australia)
EU
Page 383
Acronym Full form
L
TAER Terminal Arrival Efficiency Rating
IA
TAF Terminal Area (Aerodrome) Forecast
R
TAFD Total Advanced Flights on Departure
AI
TAFEI Task Analysis For Error Identification
Page 384
Acronym Full form
TARTAR ATS Route Structure between Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Turkey
L
TAS Terminal Airspace
IA
TAS Transmission Acknowledgement Sub-field
R
TASC The Analytical Science Corporation (Industry)
AI
TASI Time Assigned Speech Interpolation
TAX TAXi(ing)
EU
TB Tellback
TBA To Be Advised
TBC To Be Completed
TBD To Be Done
TBD To Be Discussed
TBD To Be Determined
TBD To Be Defined
TBN To Be Notified
Page 385
Acronym Full form
L
TC Transit Counter
IA
TC Trajectory Calculation
TC Type Certificate
R
TC Temporary Channel
AI
TC Transition Concept
TC Transit Corridor
L
O
TC Typical Changes
TR
TCAS Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (Système d'avertissement de trafic et de prévention des
abordages)
Page 386
Acronym Full form
L
TCH Threshold Crossing Height
IA
TCL Terminal Control
R
TCM Trellis Coded Modulation
AI
TCM Traffic Complexity Manager
Page 387
Acronym Full form
TD Time Difference
L
TDDS Terminal Data Distribution System
IA
TDF Total Delayed Flights
R
TDH Training Development & Harmonisation (Unit) (IANS) ((Section) "Développement et harmonisation de la
AI
formation")
TDO TornaDO
N
TE Entry Time
TE Test error
Page 388
Acronym Full form
TE Terminal Equipment
TE Transport Entity
L
TEB Tender Evaluation Board
IA
TEC Technical ATM Systems and Logistics Support
R
TEC Total Electron Content
AI
TECH Technical
TEL Telephone
TELNET Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol Virtual Terminal Protocol
EU
Page 389
Acronym Full form
TESA Toolset For Environmental Sustainability Assessment / Kit d'évaluation de la viabilité environnementale
L
test test test
IA
TEST Test Mode (N-FDPS)
test test
R
test test
AI
test test
TF Task Force
O
TFC TraFfiC
Page 390
Acronym Full form
L
TFTS Terrestrial Flight Telephone System
IA
TFV Traffic Volume (CFMU)
TG Task Group
R
TGDLP Trials Ground Data Link Processor
AI
TGF Traffic Growth Factor (CFMU)
TH Transport Header
O
THR THermometeR
THR THReshold
THRU THRoUgh
THU THUrsday
TI Transmit Interdict
TI Transfer Initiation
Page 391
Acronym Full form
L
TIC Time In Change
IA
TICTAC Time Constrained Trajectory Computation Trajectory predictor
R
TID Test Item Discrepancy
AI
TIDE Tactical and IFPS Development Environment
TIM Time
Page 392
Acronym Full form
TK True Track
TKOF TaKe-OFf
TKS ThanKS
L
TKX Crosstell Tracker
IA
TL Traverse Level
R
TL Thermo Luminescent
AI
TLA Title Line Area
TM Training Manager
Page 393
Acronym Full form
TM Technical Manual
L
TMAN Traffic Manager
IA
TMAS Terminal Manoeuvring Area Services
R
TMC Telematics Management Committee
AI
TMCD Technical Monitoring & Control Desk
TN Trajectory Negociation
TN True Negative
TN Technical Note
Page 394
Acronym Full form
TN Track Number
L
TNM Tactical Network Management
IA
TNO Stereovision test (trade name)
R
TO Telecommunications Operator
AI
TO Technical Order
TO Operation Time
TO Time Over
L
O
TO RIT To Reroute Issue Time
TR
TO/L take-off/Landing
N
Page 395
Acronym Full form
TOIT/TF Task Force on the Treatment Of Internal Tax (Équipe spéciale sur le régime appliqué à l'impôt interne)
TOKAI Toolkit for ATM Occurrence Investigation / boîte à outils pour l'analyse des événements impliquant l'ATM
L
TOP The TOP Object Class, containing no attributes
IA
TOP cloud TOP
R
TOP Total Operations Planner
AI
TOPL Take-off Performance Limits
TP Trajectory Prediction
TP Terminal Procedure
TP Technical Prospectus
TP Trajectory Predictor
TP Transaction Processing
TP Transport Protocol
TP Turning Point
TP True Positive
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TPD Tabular Problem Display (N-FDPS)
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TPDR Transponder (abbreviated term)
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TPF Propagation forward delay
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TPF Technology Performance Financing
TPINS Transition Plan for the Implementation of the ECAC Navigation Strategy
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TR Trouble Report
TR Transfer Retain
TR Technical Requirement
TR TRansfer phase
TR Release time
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Acronym Full form
TR Track (ICAO)
TR Token Ring
TR Track Reconstruction
TR Test Report
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TRA Technical Risk Assessment
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TRA Required Time for Arrival
TRA TRAnsistor
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TRA Temporary Reserved Airspace (ICAO 8400/4)
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TRA Track Resolution Analysis
TRACER
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Technique for the Retrospective Analysis of Cognitive Errors in ATM
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TRACON Terminal Radar Approach Control (US)
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TRASAS Trans-Regional Airspace and Supporting ATM Systems Steering Group (Groupe directeur sur l'espace aérien
transrégional et l'ATM de soutien)
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TRES Trajectory Reconstruction and Evaluation Suite
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TRF TRansFormer
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TRF Total Regulated Flights
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TRG Technical Review Group
TRG Training
TRG/SRI
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TRaininG / System Replay & Investigation environment
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TRGP TRaininG Plan
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TRK TRacK
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TROP TROPopause
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TRX TRansmitter
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TRY/PFL Try Input of Planned Flight Level
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TS Transport Service User
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TS ThunderStorm
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TS Track Server (MADAP)
TS Technical Specification
TS Trajectory System
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TS Terminating System
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TS Tracker (Hardware)
TS Transport Service
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TS Time Source
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TS Technical Supplement
TS Traffic Synchronisation
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TSGE Tri-Service Group on Communications and Electronics (NATO)
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TSGR ThunderStorm with hail
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TSIKADA Russian four-satellite civil navigation system.
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TSIKADA_M Russian six-satellite military navigation system.
TSP TranSPonder
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TST Test
TSTMS Thunderstorms
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TT TeleType(writer)
TT True Track
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TTA Track Time-based Analysis
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TTC Telemetry and Telecommand Centre
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TTD Target Time of Departure
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TTE Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (EU)
TTG Time To Go
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TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic
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TU Tributary Unit
TU Temps Universel
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TUE TUEsday
TURB TURBulence
Tut Tutoring
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TV Traffic Volumes
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TV Television
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TVE Total Vertical Error
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TVOR Terminal VOR
TW Target Window
TWR Tower
TWY TaxiWaY
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TX Transmission, Transmit(ter)
TX Transmitter Station
TX Transmit
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TXI taxi-in
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TXIT Target Taxi-In Time
TXO Taxi-out
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TXOT Target Taxi-Out Time
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TXT TeXT (of SDD Labels)
Txt Text
TYPH TYPHoon
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U UHF Equipped
U/S Unserviceable
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UA User Agent
UA Unnumbered Acknowledgement
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UAS User Agent Server
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UAT Universal Access Transceiver
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UAV-OAT TF UAV-OAT Task Force
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UBR Unspecified Bit Rate
UD User Data
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UE Union européenne
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UF Uplink Format
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UFO Unidentified Flying Object
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UFR Upper Flight Region
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UHF Ultra-High Frequency
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UHT Ultra Heat Treated
UI User Interface
UI Unnumbered Information
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UIC Upper Information Centre
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UM Uniform Motion
UM Uplink Message
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UMA Unmanned Aircraft
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UMAS UnManaged AirSpace
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UML Unified Modelling Language
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UMPDU User Message Protocol Data Unit
UN Unassigned
UN United Nations
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UNA UNAble
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UNL Unlimited
UNREL UNRELiable
UNT Until
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UOD User Objectives Document
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UPC Usage Parameter Control
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UPD UPDate (plan divergence)
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UPDM Unified Profile for DoDAF/MODAF
URANIA Upgrading Athens Terminal Area and Interfacing to the PALLAS ACC system
URB User Relations and Development Bureau (CFMU) (Bureau « Relations avec les utilisateurs et développement
»)
URG Urgent
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Acronym Full form
US United States
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US Unit Separator
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USA Unix System Administrator
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USAF United States Air Force
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USAL User Access Level
USD US Dollar
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USG US Government
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USOAP Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (Programme universel d'audits de supervision de la sécurité -
ICAO)
USSPE Union Syndicale - Service public européen / European Public Service Union (=EPSU)
UT Universal Time
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UT Unit (ENV entity type, unit is a generic concept comprising all units providing and/or receiving a service or
information, used in all CHMI)
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UUP Update Airspace Use Plan
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UUP Updated (Airspace) Use Plan
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UUS User-to-User Signalling
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UVA Utility Value Analysis
V Volt
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V Speed of Light
V/D Voice/Data
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V/M Volts-per-meter
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V4 V4 (ARTAS version)
EU
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VAL Vertical Alert Limit
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VAL Visual Approach & Landing
VAL in VALleys
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ValFor Validation User Group
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VAN Value-Added Network
VAR Variation
VAR VARactor
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VC Virtual Circuit
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VC Virtual Classroom
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VC Virtual Call
VC Voice Communication
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VC-31 Virtual Container-31
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VC-32 Virtual Container-32
VCY ViCinitY
VD Vertical Dispersal
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VDL VHF Digital/Data Link / Liaison de données VHF
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VDL/4 VHF Voice and Data Link - Mode 4
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VDLMode4 VHF Data Link Mode 4 (Liaison de données VHF Mode 4)
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VDOP Vertical Dilution of Precision
VDX Videotext
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VE Validation Environment
EU
VEL VELocity
Ver Vertical
VERA VERification (of horizontal separation) and Advice (to other controllers)
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Acronym Full form
VERT Vertical
VF Validation Framework
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VF Voice Frequency
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VFG Validation Focus Group (CASCADE)
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VFO Variable Frequency Oscillator
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VFOP Visual Flight Rules Operations Panel
VG Validity Generalisation
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VG Vertical Gyro
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VHF Very High Frequency / Très hautes fréquences (30 - 300 MHz)
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VI Voice Interface
VICTOR Visualización Integrada de Control de Torre (ES) / ATC Integrated display for TWR
Vid Video
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Acronym Full form
VIS VISibility
Vis Visit
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VIS1 Visibility Condition 1 (A-SMGCS)
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VIS2 Visibility Condition 2 (A-SMGCS)
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VIS4 Visibility Condition 4 (A-SMGCS)
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VISAID Visual Landing Aid
VM Virtual Machine
VM Voice Messaging
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Acronym Full form
VN Valid Negatives
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VNCA Vtam Node Control Application
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VNSE Vertical Navigation System Error
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vocoder voice coder
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VOCODER Voice Coder Decoder
VOL Volume
VP Vertical Profile
VP Virtual Path
VP Valid Positives
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VQL Variable Quantising Level
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VQL Visual Query Language
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VRAM Video RAM
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VRB VaRiaBle
VS Virtual Storage
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VS Vocational Stabilisation
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VS Vertical Status
VSBY Visibilty
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VSP Variable System Parameters (N-FDPS)
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VSP Variable System Parameter
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VSSG Vertical Separation Sub-Group
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VSWR Voltage Standing Wave Ratio
VT Vertical Tabulation
VT VerTical
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VT Virtual Terminal
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Vx Version x
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W Watt
W West
W White
W/S WorkStation
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W/V Wind Velocity and Direction
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W3C World Wide Web Consortium
WA Wide-Area
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WA EATM Working Arrangements
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WA Weather Area
WAFTAGE Winds Analysed and Forecast for Technical Aircraft Guidance over Europe
WAR Warning
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WB World Bank
WB WestBound
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WBS Work Breakdown Structure
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WBS Web Seal
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WC Working Cell
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WC World Coordinates
WC Waypoint Capture
WDG WatchDoG
WDSPR WiDeSPRead
EU
WDW Window
WED WEDnesday
WEU Western European Union (military matters) / Union de l'Europe Occidentale (=UEO)
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WG Working Group
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WG-A Working Group A
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WG-B Working Group B
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WG2 Working Group 2
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WG49 Working Group 49
WGS 84 World Geodetic System -Map projection system defined by the International Union of Geodesy and
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Geophysics (IUGG).
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WGS-84 World Geodetic System 84, which is the ICAO recommended parameterisation of an ellipsoid earth model
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WI WithIn
WID WIDth
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WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization
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WIPP WAAS Integrity Performance Panel
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WISDOM World Interconnected Sources Database of Operational Movements
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WKN Weakening
WL Work Load
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WLA WorkLoad Assessment
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WM Working Memory
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WNW West-North-West
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WO WithOut
WP Work Package
WP Way Point
WP Working Paper
WP Work Programme
WP Working Position
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Acronym Full form
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WPS Working Practices
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WPs Working Positions
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WPx Next waypoint on the flight plan
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WR Weather Radar
WRC
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World Radiocommunication Conference (Conférence mondiale des radiocommunications)
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WRED Weighted Random Early Detection
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WRNG WaRniNG
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WS Work Station
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WS Watch Supervisor
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WS Wind Shear
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WSW West-South-West
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Acronym Full form
WV Wake Vortex
WX Weather
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WXMS Weather Mapping System
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WXR Airborne Weather Radar
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WXXS Weather Information Exchange Schema
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WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
X cross
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X-axi Horizontal Plane
TR
XA eXit Arrival
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Acronym Full form
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XCONF Delete CONFlict
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XCOORD Cancel Coordination
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XCOR Cancel Correlation
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XCORR Cancel Correlation (N-FDPS)
XF XF Addressing Scheme
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XFER Transfer
EU
XL eXit Lateral
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Acronym Full form
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XMT transMiT(ssion)
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XMT Excluding (Message)
XNG crossiNG
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xNOTAM Digital NOTAM
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XNSSR Exit NSSR
XS atmospherics
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Acronym Full form
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XTEDD Cancel Test Electronic Data Display
IA
XTFL Cancel Transfer Flight Level (N-FDPS)
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XTK Cross Track Distance
AI
XTRK Cancel Track
YR YouR
Z Zulu Time
ZH Horizontal Reflectivity
ZI Maximum Reflectivity
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Acronym Full form
ZT Zone Time
ZV Vertical Reflectivity
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ZVE Zentrale Überwachung (DE)
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ZVF Zero Velocity Filter
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