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FMQG Fuel measurement and quantity-gauging; C
adds computer, S System.
FMS 1 Flight-management system; T adds trainer.
2 Field maintenance squadron (USAF).
3 Frequency-multiplexed subcarrier.
4 Foreign military sales (DoD).
5 Federation of materials societies.
6 Fuel-management system.
7 Flexible manufacturing systems.
8 Full-mission simulator.
FMSC Frequency Management Sub-Committee
(NATO).
FMSP Flight-mode selector panel.
FMST Flight-management system trainer.
FMT Full-mission trainer.
FMTAG Foreign Military Training Affairs Group
(US).
FMTI Future missile-technology initiative (USA).
F/MTI Fixed/moving target indicator.
FMTS Fleet [of aircraft] management and tracking
system (Aero-C).
FMU 1 Flight-management unit.
2 Fuel-metering, or management, unit.
3 Flow [of air traffic] management unit.
FMV Försvarets Materielverk (Defence Materiel
Administration, Sweden).
F N Nozzle drag correction.
F n 1 Net thrust.
2 Receiver noise.
FNA 1 Fédération Nationale Aéronautique (parent
body of flying clubs, F).
2 Final approach.
FNBA Fédération Nationale Belge d’Aviation.
FNBDT Future narrow-band digital terminal.
FNC Favoured-nation clause.
FNCP Flight navigation control panel.
FNL 1 Flight Navigator’s Licence (UK).
2 Fleet noise level.
FNLN Fine line, on radar indicating significant
turbulence.
FNMOC Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography
Center.
fnp Fusion point.
FNPT Flight [and] navigation procedure[s] trainer.
FNS 1 Strategic nuclear forces (F).
2 Fortified Navier-Stokes algorithm.
FNT Front [+GNS = frontogenesis = front forming;
LYS = frontolysis = decaying].
FNY French Navy [Anglicised usage].
FO 1 Foreign object.
2 Fibre optics (resulting in numerous other FO
acronyms).
3 Fail operational, or operative (see FOS, FOOS).
4 First Officer.
5 Flag Officer.
6 Fractional ownership.
7 Forward observer.
F/O 1 Flying Officer (RAF).
2 First Officer (civil).
3 Fuel/oil.
f o Frequency, prior to Doppler shift.
FOA 1 Field Operating Agency, unit of USAF distinct
from major command.
2 Follow-on attack (no precise definition).
FOD
3 Försvarets Forskningsanstalt, Swedish defence
research establishment (merged 2001 into FOI).
4 Future offensive aircraft (C adds capability, S
system).
FOAC 1 Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers.
2 Future offensive air capability.
FOAEW Future organic airborne early-warning.
foam carpet Layer of foam put down on runway or other
space by fire tenders to cushion impact of aircraft making
wheels-up landing.
foamed plastics Foaming agent provides minute voids to
create low-density material used for insulation (thermal,
mechanical shock etc), or to increase structural rigidity;
often foamed in place within structure.
foam monitor Turret-mounted foam gun on crash-fire
vehicle.
foaming space Free vapour volume above fuel in tank.
foam strip Foam carpet.
FOARC Fractional Ownership Aviation Rulemaking
Committee.
FOAS Future Offensive Air System [more recently,
Support] (UK).
FOB 1 Forward operating base.
2 Fuel on board (suggest undesirable usage, confusion
with established non-aero acronym free on board).
FOBS Fractional-orbit bombardment system.
FOC 1 Foreign-object check.
2 Full (or final) operational, or operating, capability.
3 Flares/off/chaff.
4 Faint-object camera.
5 Fibre-optic control, or cable, or computer.
6 Final operational clearance.
7 Fuel/oil cooler.
8 Flight-operational commonality, making possible
mixed-fleet flying.
9 Formal offer to customer.
FOCA Federal Office of Civil Aviation (Swiss).
focal length Distance from optical centre of lens or
surface of mirror to principal focus.
focal plane That parallel to plane of lens or mirror and
passing through focus.
focal point 1 See focus.
2 Air Staff agency or individual designated as central
source of information or guidance on specific programme
or project requiring co-ordinated action by two or more
Air Staff agencies (USAF).
Focas, FOCAS 1 Fibre-optic communications for aerospace
systems (USAF).
2 Flag Officer Carriers and Amphibious Ships (RN).
3 Focused ordnance controller with aimpoint selection
(USAF).
FOCR Final operational clearance recommendation.
FOCSI, Focsi Fibre-optic control-system integration.
focus 1 Point at which parallel rays of light meet after
being refracted by lens or reflected by mirror.
2 Point having specific significance relative to geometrical
figure such as ellipse, hyperbola or parabola.
FODMS Fibre-optic[s] data multiplex system.
FOD 1 Foreign-object damage [or debris].
2 Fibre-optic[s] data [B adds bus, C control, H
highway, L link, MS multiplex systems and S system].
3 Flight Operations Department (UK CAA).
4 First operational delivery.
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