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Deicing
Is used after ice has built up to an appreciable amount. Typically this includes surface deice equipment.
Vacuum Failures
Vacuum pump failures are one of the most common squawks in general aviation aircraft. But pilots don't train enough for this possibility, and the training they get is often inadequate.
Adjustable-Pitch Propeller
A propeller with blades whose pitch can be adjusted on the ground with the engine not running, but which cannot be adjusted in flight. Also referred to as a ground adjustable propeller. Sometimes also used to refer to onstant-speed propellers that are adjustable in flight.
Structural Ice
Pressure on the elevator may help to reattach airflow to the aileron. How quickly a surface collects ice depends in part on its shape. Thin, modern wings will be more critical with ice on them than thick, older wing sections.
Taxi to
In the absence of holding instructions, a clearance to “taxi to” any point other than an assigned takeoff runway is a clearance to cross all runways that intersect the taxi route to that point. It does not include authorization to taxi onto or cross the assigned takeoff runway at any point.
Steady red
Stop or Give way to other aircraft and continue circling Runway Incursion
Flashing green
Cleared for taxi or Return for landing (to be followed by steady green at the proper time)
Wing Deicer, and Anti-icing Systems
There is presently one type of wing deicer—boots—and two anti-icing systems—weeping wing systems (fluid
deice systems) and heated wings—that are commonly used in general aviation today.
VFR
Visual Flight Rules we fly under Visual Flight Rules
Spatial Disorientation
Spatial disorientation is an erroneous sense or mistaken perception of one's position and motion relative to the earth.
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