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Absolute Pressure
ACARS
Active waypoint
Advanced avionics information system
Air Data Attitude and Heading Reference System (ADAHRS)
Altimeter setting
Altitude alerting system
Altitude capture
Altitude function
Annunciator panel
Approach mode/function
ARINC
Armed
Attitude Heading Reference System (AHRS)
Automatic Flight Control System (AFCS)
Automatic mode change
Autopilot
Autopilot flight mode annunciator
Autothrottle system
Autotrim system
Avionics
Avionics System
Black Plague – Corrosion
Bottom-of-descent point
Broadcast weather service
CAT I – Category I – Approach
CAT II – Category II – Approach
CAT IIIa – Category IIIa – Approach
CAT IIIb – Category IIIb – Approach
CAT IIIc – Category IIIc – Approach
CDI – Course Deviation Indicator
CDI – Course Deviation Indicator
Chapter
Combiner
Command Bars
Conductivity
Cone of Confusion
Cone of Confusion
Crossing restriction
Cursor mode
Data link weather service
Data Management Unit (DMU)
Deceleration segment
Decision Altitude (DA)
Desired track
DFDAU – Digital Flight Data Acquisition Unit
DFDAU – Digital Flight Data Acquisition Unit
Doppler Radar
Electronic Flight Bag – EFB
Electronic Flight Bag – EFB
Electronic flight instruments
Electronic horizontal situation indicator (EHSI)
eLORAN
Engaged
Fail-Operational Automatic Landing System
Faildown
Flight Director – FD
Flight Director – FD
Flight Guidance System
Fly-by waypoint
Fly-over waypoint
FMS/RNAV units
Fuel management system or function
Fuel range ring
Glideslope (GS) function
Global Positioning System Steering (GPSS)
GPS overlay approach
GPS stand-alone approach
Ground weather surveillance radar system
Heading function
Highway in the sky (HITS)
HUD – Head Up Display System
HUD – Head Up Display System
Instrument landing system
Kollsman Window Altimeter
Kollsman Window – Altimeter Adjustment – Barometric Pressure Setting Window
LNAV – Lateral Navigation Guidance
LNAV – Lateral Navigation Guidance
LNAV/VNAV
Localizer
Long range navigation (LORAN) -
Magnetic flux valve -
Magnetometer -
Mode awareness -
Moving map -
Multi-function display (MFD) -
Navigation database -
Navigation function -
NEXRAD
Next Generation Radar System -
No-further-input prediction
Nonsequencing mode
Nuisance alert
OBS mode
Onboard lightning detection systems
Onboard weather radar
Page
Preprogrammed course reversal
Preprogrammed holding pattern (preprogrammed hold)
Primary flight display (PFD) -
Primary-secondary task inversion
Purple Plague – Corrosion
Radar attenuation
RAIM
Receiver autonomous integrity monitoring
Red Plague – Corrosion
Resolution advisory (RA)
Risk homeostasis
RNAV
RNAV (GPS) approach
Route discontinuity
Sequencing mode
Stand-alone approach
Subpage
Suspend mode
Synchro
Tape display
Terminal Arrival Area
Terminal mode
Terrain and obstacle database
Terrain inhibit switch
Terrain system
Top-of-descent point
Topographical database
Traffic Advisory (TA)
Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System – TCAS
Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System – TCAS
Traffic data system
Traffic display
Transponder
Transponder Codes
Transponder Codes
True airspeed
True altitude
Turn-and-Slip Indicator
Turn-and-Slip Indicator
Turn anticipation
Turn Coordinator
Turn Coordinator
Ultra-high frequency (UHF)
Uncaging
Vectors to final
Vertical speed indicator (VSI)
Vertical speed mode
Very-high frequency omnidirectional range (VOR)
Very high frequency omnidirectional range (VOR)
VNAV
VOR – Very High Frequency Omni Directional Range
Waveguide
Waypoint
Waypoint alerting
Waypoint sequencing
Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)