FARs
Terms
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- means the Federal Aviation Administrator or any person to whom he has delegated his authority in the matter concerned
- Administrator
- means non-dimensional coefficients for aerodynamic forces and moments
- Aerodynamic coefficients
- means a person who undertakes directly by lease, or other arrangement, to engage in air transportation.
- Air carrier
- means interstate, overseas, or foreign air commerce or the transportation of mail by aircraft or any operation or navigation of aircraft within the limits of any Federal airway or any operation or navigation of aircraft which directly affects, or which m
- Air commerce
- means a device that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air
- Aircraft
- means an engine that is used or intended to be used for propelling aircraft. It includes turbosuperchargers, appurtenances, and accessories necessary for its functioning, but does not include propellers.
- Aircraft engine
- means the fuselage, booms, nacelles, cowlings, fairings, airfoil surfaces (including rotors but excluding propellers and rotating airfoils of engines), and landing gear of an aircraft and their accessories and controls.
- Airframe
- means an engine-driven fixed-wing aircraft heavier than air, that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its wings.
- airplane
- means an area of land or water that is used or intended to be used for the landing and takeoff of aircraft, and includes its buildings and facilities, if any.
- Airport
- means an engine-driven lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered.
- Airship
- means aircraft operating in the air or on an airport surface, exclusive of loading ramps and parking areas.
- Air traffic
- means an authorization by air traffic control, for the purpose of preventing collision between known aircraft, for an aircraft to proceed under specified traffic conditions within controlled airspace.
- Air traffic clearance
- means a service operated by appropriate authority to promote the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic.
- Air traffic control
- is a specified route designated for channeling the flow of traffic as necessary for the provision of air traffic services. The term "ATS route" refers to a variety of airways, including jet routes, area navigation (RNAV) routes, and arrival and
- Air Traffic Service (ATS) route
- interstate, overseas, or foreign air transportation or the transportation of mail by aircraft.
- Air transportation
- An alert area is established to inform pilots of a specific area wherein a high volume of pilot training or an unusual type of aeronautical activity is conducted.
- Alert Area
- means an airport at which an aircraft may land if a landing at the intended airport becomes inadvisable.
- Alternate airport
- means a reciprocating aircraft engine having a rated takeoff power that is producible from sea level to an established higher altitude.
- Altitude engine
- means any instrument, mechanism, equipment, part, apparatus, appurtenance, or accessory, including communications equipment, that is used or intended to be used in operating or controlling an aircraft in flight, is installed in or attached to the aircraf
- Appliance
- unless used with reference to another person, means approved by the Administrator
- Approved