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BBGA British Business and General Aviation Association
BBKMF Black Box Key Management Facility (Galileo)
BBP beam bend potential (ILS)
BBR battery backup RAM
BC patches (met)
BC Code Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes (IMO)
BCAR British Civil Air Requirements
BCAS beacon-based collision avoidance system
BCBP bar coded boarding pass (IATA - full implementation by 2010)
BCCH broadcast control channel (GSM phones)
BCD binary code decimal
BCH broadcast channel (phone network)
bcn (BCN) BeaCoN
BCR bow crossing range
BCS beacon control system (marine)
BCS British Cartographic Society
BCT bow crossing time
BCU British Canoe Union
BDIS Bus Departure Infomation System
BEA Bureau Enquêtes-Accidents (French AAIB)
BECMG becoming (met)
BEDMAP Antarctic Bedrock Mapping Project
Beidou Chinese GNSS (means ‘Big Dipper')
BER bit error rate
Also known as Twinstar Rapid Positioning System. 2 sats in
geosynchronous orbits, may be joined by 2 more or may become a
full constellation (also known as ‘Compass’).
BERR Dept for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (UK fm Jun 07)
BEST Beginning-to-End for Simulation and Training
NATS ATC simulation system for NERC.
BFO beat frequency oscillator
BFU Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung (German AAIB)
BGA ball grid array (type of surface-mount packaging used for ICs)
BGA British Gliding Association
BGD broadcast group delay
BHAB British Helicopter Advisory Board
BHPA British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association
BIAS Bus Information and Signalling System
BiCMOS Combined CMOS & bipolar trans for logic & memory on the same chip
BIGF British Isles GPS (archive) Facility (NERC)
BIH Bureau International de L’Heure
BIIT built-in integrity test
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