Aviation Terms/Callouts

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Hint	Answer
Airbus planes call this out when landing	Retard
Call out when you are 100 feet above the minimums	Hundred above
Mechanism that controls the aircraft's bank	Aileron
Abbreviated to FMC	Flight Management Computer
Instrument that tells you the current speed	Air Speed Indicator
Main input device on a Boeing	Yoke
Instrument that tells the current altitude	Altimeter
Call out when you reach the minimums	Minimums
Team that communicates with a plane and helps guide it	Air Traffic Control
Goods carried by planes	Cargo
Wind blowing perpendicular to the aircraft	Crosswind
Mechanism that controls the aircraft pitch	Elevator
Device that extends to give the aircraft more lift	Flaps
Main input device on an airbus	Side stick
Main control area on the aircraft	Flight Deck
Abbreviated to FO	First Officer
Main central area of a plane; Houses the flight crew, passengers and cargo	Fuselage
What happens when a pilot abandons the landing attempt	Go Around
Aircraft's speed relative to the ground	Ground Speed
Term used by ATC to identify an aircraft with a takeoff weight of 136 tonnes or more	Heavy
Mechanism that prevents pitching motion of the aircraft	Horizontal Stabilizer

Hint	Answer
Abbreviated to IFR	Instrument Flight Rules
System that helps guide pilots into land	Instrument Landing System
Unit used to measure airspeed	Knots
The force that wings generate	Lift
The ratio of the speed of sound; used to measure airspeed	Mach
Movement of the aircraft's nose in an up and down motion	Pitch
Main screen used by the pilots	Primary Flight Display
Mechanism used to control the aircraft's yaw	Rudder
Area that an aircraft lands on	Runway
Condition where an aircraft's wings are no longer generating lift	Stall
Device that controls the power of an engine	Throttle
A sudden shift in air flow caused by atmospheric motion.	Turbulence
The area the aircraft drives on to reach the runway or the gates	Taxiway
The point of no return when taking off	V1
Abbreviated to VFR	Visual Flight Rules
Sudden change in the horizontal or vertical wind direction	Wind Shear
The movement of the aircraft's nose side to side	Yaw
System used to help the pilots land	Glide slope
The bank rotation of the aircraft	Roll
System used to help pilots land	Localizer
System used to control the plane during flight	Autopilot

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