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This is the maximum time an aircraft can stay airborne without refuelling.
What is endurance?
A general term for hitting birds in flight.
What is a bird strike?
The medical term for when someone loses the ability to act or move.
What is incapacitation?
A material that easily catches fire is called this.
What is flammable?
A routine aviation weather report updated hourly.
What is a METAR?
This radio aid helps a pilot find the direction to an NDB.
What is an ADF (Automatic Direction Finder)?
A small, fast bird often building nests under roof eaves?
What is a swallow?
This portable auto-injector delivers a life-saving dose of epinephrine during a severe allergic reaction.
What is EpiPen?
The cockpit instruction meaning “we are declaring an emergency.”
What is Mayday?
The opposite of IMC, when flying by visual reference.
What is VMC (Visual Meteorological Conditions)?
This fix marks the beginning of the instrument approach procedure.
What is the IAF (Initial Approach Fix)?
The area where birds sleep and rest.
What is a roosting site?
This emergency condition involves swelling and difficulty breathing after an allergic reaction.
What is anaphylaxis (anaphylactic shock)?
A smaller emergency call, less severe than Mayday.
What is Pan‑Pan?
This dangerous downdraught phenomenon can occur beneath thunderstorms, producing sudden, strong winds that pose serious risks during takeoff or landing.
What is a microburst?
The opposite of IFR; pilots navigate visually under these rules.
What are VFR (Visual Flight Rules)?
A technique where eggs are deliberately made infertile to control bird populations.
What is egg addling?
This portable device can restart a heart by giving an electric shock.
What is an AED (Automated External Defibrillator)?
These specially trained firefighters parachute from aircraft into remote areas to combat wildfires.
What are smoke jumpers?
Dangerous wind change near thunderstorms that can cause loss of lift.
What is windshear?
This signal system provides both a localizer and glideslope for landings.
What is the ILS (Instrument Landing System)?
This term describes when birds are sucked into aircraft engines.
What is bird ingestion?
This condition means low oxygen levels in the body.
What is hypoxia?
This electrical fault occurs when a current follows an unintended low-resistance path, often causing sparks or power loss.
What is a short-circuit?
Towering storm clouds producing heavy rain and turbulence.
What are cumulonimbus clouds (CBs)?