Stretch 8 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 2561 posts, RR: 19 Reply 1, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 1570 times:
I like "CFIT." Controlled flight into terrain. Also:
"TRACON." Terminal Radar Approach Control
"ARTCC" Air Route Traffic Control Center
"AFSS" Automated Flight Service Station
"ARSR" Air Route Surveillance Radar
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Tom in NO From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 7194 posts, RR: 40 Reply 2, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 1551 times:
A few more for your list:
ASR: Airport Surveillance Radar
FAR: Federal Aviation Regulation
PFC: Passenger Facility Charge
AIP: Airport Improvement Program
ASOS: Airport Surface Observation System
ILS: Instrument Landing System
IFR: Instrument Flight Rules
VFR: Visual Flight Rules
AC: Advisory Circular
AMASS: Airport Movement Area Safety System
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FlyPIJets From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 822 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 1483 times:
NOTAM = Notices to Airmen
HIWAS = Hazardous Inflight Weather Advisory Service
EFAS = En Route Flight Advisory Service (aka Flight Watch - and its the word SAFE backwards )
RAIL = Runway Alignment Indicator Lights
VORTAC = VOR and TACAN colocated
WX = Weather
TEMPO = Tempoary
VICE = Instead/Versus
ASOS = Automated Surface Observing System
AWOS = Automated weather Observing System
AMOS = Automatic Meteorological Observing System
ATIS = Automated Terminal Information System
BERM - Snowbanks containing Earth/Gravel
RNOcommctr From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 825 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 1436 times:
FSDO-- Flight Standards District Office, pronounced, "fizz-doh".
Flyingbronco05 From United States of America, joined May 2002, 3838 posts, RR: 3 Reply 5, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 1396 times:
OPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (9 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 1394 times:
Was the original intent of this thread to post alternative (joke) meanings to official acronymns, or to post every official (non-joke) acronym one can think of?
If it's the latter, maybe someone can cut-and-paste the entire AIM or FAA contractions manual in a single message, so we can save some bandwidth..
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