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Avometer
Avometer Pioneer hand-held tester for electrical
systems.
Avoss Aircraft vortex spacing system, to permit reduced
landing intervals.
Avpac Aviation packet communication.
AVPH Air-vehicle prognostics and health.
Avpin Aviation-specification isopropyl nitrate.
Avplex Avionics planning and execution.
Av.P.970 Aviation Publication 970, Manual of Design
Requirements for Aircraft, now called DAR.1 (UK).
Avpol Aviation-specification petrol/oil/lubricant.
AVR 1 Active vibration reduction.
2 Additional validation requirement[s].
AVRA Automatic visual-range assessor.
Avradar Aeronautical, or aviation, R&D activity
(USA).
AVRS Airborne video-recording system.
AVS 1 Advanced vertical strike.
2 Advanced vision, or visionics, system.
3 Air-vehicle specification.
Avsat Aviation satcom service.
Avsec, AVSEC Aviation Security Panel (ICAO).
AvSP Aviation safety project (NASA).
AVSS 1 Analog voice switching system.
2 See Avoss.
AVT 1 Automatic video tracker.
2 Augmented, or avanced, vectored thrust.
3 Analog voice terminal.
Avtag Aviation turbine-engine gasoline, see fuel.
Avtoc Aviation tactical-operations center, if A2C 2 C
unavailable (USA).
Avtops Aviation tactical-operations center (USA,
USAF).
AVTR Airborne video-tape recorder.
Avtur Aviation turbine-engine fuel, see fuel.
AVUM 1 Aviation unit-level maintenance (USA).
2 Air-vehicle unit maintenance.
AVVI Altitude and vertical-velocity indicator.
AW 1 All-weather (usually not literally true).
2 Airway; often A/W, but AWY is preferred.
3 Automatic [gun] weapon.
4 Confusingly, airborne early warning.
5 Airlift Wing (USAF).
6 Airworthiness.
A w , Aw Aircraft total wetted area.
AWA Aviation/Space Writers Association [office,
Chester, NJ] (US/Int.).
Awacs, AWACS Airborne warning and control system.
AWADC Advanced wideband analog-to-digital
converter; T adds technology.
Awads All-, or adverse-, weather aerial delivery system.
AWAM Association of Women in Aviation
Maintenance (US).
Awans Aviation weather and notice-to-airmen system
(FAA, from 1976).
Awards 1 Aircraft wide-angle reflective display system.
2 All-weather airborne reconnaissance drone sensor.
Aware Advanced warning of active-radar emission[s].
Awas Automated weather advisory system.
AWB 1 Airway bill, air waybill.
2 Above-water battlespace.
AWBA, Awba Automated wing-box assembly.
AWC 1 Accumulated water condensate.
2 Air Warfare Centre (RAF Waddington; see AWFC).
AWP
3 Aviation Weather Center (NOAA).
4 Air Wing Commander (USN).
AWCCV Advanced-weapon-carriage configured
vehicle.
AWCLS All-weather carrier landing system.
AW/CN Awaiting collection (RAF).
AWCS Automatic, or airborne-, weapons control
system.
AWD 1 Airworthiness Division (CAA, UK).
2 Air-warfare destroyer (ship).
Awdats Automatic-weapon, or air-warfare, data-transmission
system.
Awdrey Atomic-weapon detection, recognition and estimation
of yield.
AWDS 1 All-weather delivery, or distribution, system.
2 Automated weather [forecast] distribution system
AWE 1 All-up weight, equipped; generally = OWE.
2 AWE Hunting Brae, previouslyAtomic Weapons
Establishment [Aldermaston, RG7 4PR] (UK).
3 Aircraft/weapon/electronic (AFMSS module).
4 Advanved weapons elevator (CV).
AWES Atomic-weapons effects simulator; AWESS =
signature simulator.
AWFC Air Warfare Center (USAF).
AWFCS All-weather flight-control system.
AWG 1 JETDS Code: piloted aircraft, armament, firecontrol.
2 Airlines Working Group (CAA, UK).
3 Arbitrary waveform generator.
4 Aural-warning generator.
5 American Wire Gauge.
AWH All-weather helicopter.
AWI 1 Aircraft weight indicator, on-board system also
often indicating c.g. position, usually by sensing deflections
of landing-gear shock struts.
2 All-weather intercept.
3 Air weapons instructor.
4 Airframe/weapons integration.
Awiator Aircraft wing with advanced-technology operation
(Airbus).
AWICS Airborne wireless intercom system.
AWIGWG Aircraft wire and inert-generator working
group.
AWIM Airport weather information manager.
AWIN, Awin Aviation weather information [S adds
system] (NASA/Boeing).
Awips Advanced weather interactive processing system
(FAA).
AWIS Automatic weather information system.
AWL Above water level.
AWLS All-weather landing system.
AWM 1 Average working man (in defining aircrew
sleep patterns).
2 Aircraft wiring manual.
3 Audio warning mixer.
AWMDS Automatic wing-sweep and manoeuvre
devices system.
AWNIS Allied worldwide naval information system.
AWO All-weather operations.
AWOP All-weather Operations Panel (ICAO).
AWOS Automated, or airport, weather-observing, or
automatic weather-observation, system.
AWP Aerial work platform.
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