Abbreviations
| metric: | |
| FL | Flight Level (FL100 = 10000ft = 3048 metres) |
| ft | feet (0,3048 metres) |
| km | kilometres (1km = 0,62mls) |
| kts | Knots / nautical miles per hour (1knot = 1,85km/hour) |
| m | metres (1 metre = 3,28ft) |
| mls | miles (1 mile = 1609,34 metres) |
| nm | Nautical miles (1 nm = 1853,18 metres) |
| msl | mean sea level |
| amsl | above mean sea level |
| agl | above ground level |
| location / flight | |
| AB | Air Base |
| AFB | Air Force Base |
| APT | Airport |
| IAP | International Airport |
| NAS | Naval Air Station |
| source: | |
| ( ) | Page numbers are between brackets |
| ASW | Air Safety Week |
| AWST / AW&ST | Aviation Week and Space Technology |
| Flight or FI | Flight International |
| NRC | NRC Handelsblad (Dutch daily national newspaper) |
| PEAPL | Piston engine airliner production list book |
| PZC | Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant - PZC (Dutch daily local newspaper) |
| ST94 or ST96 | Soviet Transports book |
| Sxxx or Scr | Scramble (Dutch aviation magazine, ISSN 0927-3417) - |
| VK | De Volkskrant (Dutch daily national newspaper) |
| WAAS | World Airline Accident Summary (CAP-479) book |
| WCAA | World Commercial Aircraft Accidents |
| WDAC | World directory of airliner accidents book |
| Also check out references | |
| narrative: | |
| ACC | Area Control Centre |
| AD | Airworthiness Directive |
| ASI | Airspeed Indicator |
| ATC | Air Traffic Control |
| BMEP | Brake Mean Engine Pressure |
| CVR | Cockpit Voice Recorder |
| DME | Distance Measuring Equipment |
| ETA | Estimated Time of Arrival |
| FAA | Federal Aviation Authority (USA) |
| FDR | Flight Data Recorder |
| FOD | Foreign Object Damage |
| GCA | Ground Controlled Approach |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time (=UTC) |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GPWS | Ground Proximity Warning System |
| IAS | Indicated Airspeed |
| IFR | Instrument Flight Rules |
| ILS | Instrument Landing System |
| IMC | Instrument Meteorological Conditions |
| KIAS | Knots Indicated Airspeed |
| LOC | Localizer |
| LT | Local Time |
| METO | Maximum Except Takeoff |
| MTOW | Maximum Take-off weight |
| NDB | Non Directional Beacon |
| No. 1, 2, 3, 4 engine | No.1 engine is the left most engine, from the pilots point of view. |
| Notam | Notice to Airmen |
| PIC | Pilot in Command |
| RVR | Runway Visual Range |
| RWY | Runway |
| SBA | Standard Beam Approach |
| SID | Standard Instrument Departure |
| TCAS | Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System |
| UTC | Coordinated Universal Time (=GMT) |
| V1,2,R | Take-off decision speeds |
| VFR | Visual Flight Rules |
| VOR | Very high frequency Omnidirectional Range |
