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AT - air traffic

AT&T - American Telephone

and Telegraph

AT&T ASDC - AT&T Agency

Service Delivery Center

AT&T CSA - AT&T Customer

Support Associate

ATA - actual time of arrival

ATA - Air Transport Association

ATAS - Airspace and Traffic

Advisory Service

ATC - after top center

ATC - air traffic control

ATCAA - air traffic control

assigned airspace

ATCBI - air traffic control

beacon indicator

ATCCC - Air Traffic Control

Command Center

ATCO - air taxi commercial

operator

ATCRB - air traffic control

radar beacon

ATCRBS - Air Traffic Control

Radar Beacon System

ATCSCC - Air Traffic Control

System Command Center

ATCT - airport traffic control

tower

ATD - actual time of departure

ATD - along track (straight line)

distance

ATE - actual time enroute

ATIS - Automatic Terminal

Information Service

ATISR - ATIS recorder

ATM - air traffic management

ATM - air turbine motor

ATM - asynchronous transfer

mode

ATMS - Advanced Traffic

Management System

ATN - Aeronautical

Telecommunications Network

ATODN - AUTODIN terminal

(finctional unit or system)

ATOMS - Air Traffic

Operations Management System

ATOVN - AUOTVON (facility)

ATP - Airline Transport Pilot

ATR - Airline Transport Rating

ATS - air traffic service

ATS - Air Traffic Services

(FAA)

ATSCCP - ATS Contingency

Command Post

ATT - attitude retention system

ATTIS - AT&T Information

Systems

AUL -- Approved Unserviceable

List.

AUTODIN - DoD Automatic

Digital Network

AUTOVON - DoD Automatic

Voice Network

AVAIDS - navigational aids

AVC - automatic volume control

AVGAS - Aviation gasoline.

AVN - Aviation Standards

National Field Office

AVON - AUTOVON Service

AVTUR - Aviation turbine fuel.

AWC - aviation weather center

AWG - American Wire Gauge

AWlS - airport weather

information

AWOS -Automated

Observing System

Weather

AWSS - Automated Weather

Sensor System

AWP - aviation weather

processor

AWPG - aviation weather

products generator

AWS - air weather station

BANS - BRITE alphanumeric

system

BART - Billing Analysis

Reporting Tool (GSA software

tool)

BASIC -basic contract

observing station

Aircraft Technical Book Company

P.O. Box 270

Tabernash, CO 80478

http:llw.ACTechbooks.com

BASOP - military base

operations

BBC - before bottom center

BBS -bulletin board system

BC -back course

BCA - benefivcost analysis

BCD - binary coded decimal

BCR - benefithost ratio

BDAT - digitized beacon data

BDC -bottom dead center

BFO - beat frequency oscillator

mode of ADF

BFO - beat-frequency oscillator

BHP - brake horsepower

BIM - blade inspection method

BIS - blade inspection system

BL -bend tangent line

BMEP - brake mean-effective

pressure

BMP - best management

practices

BOC - Bell Operating Company

BPCU - bus power control unit

bps - bits per second

BRI -basic rate interface

BRITE - Bright Radar Indicator

Terminal Equipment

BRL - building restriction line

BSFC - brake specific he1

consumption

BTC - before top center

BUEC - back-up emergency

communications -

BUECE -back-up emergency

communications equipment -

C - Celsius (Centigrade)

temperature.

CIA - coarse acquisition

CAA - Civil Aviation Authority

CAB - Civil Aeronautics Board

CADC - central air data comp

CAP - Civil Air Patrol

CAW - Central Altitude

Reservation Facility

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