navigation acronyms, abbreviations and definitions - International ...

FAT final approach track
FAT free air temperature
FATDMA fixed allocation time division multiple access
FAU fast acquisition unit (rx)
FAWP final approach waypoint
FB FleetBroadband (Inmarsat)
FBAR film bulk acoustic resonator (filter)
FBG fibre Bragg grating (type of accelerometer for solid-state IMU)
FBW fly-by-wire
FC funnel cloud (met)
FCC Federal Communications Commission (US)
FCC flight control computer
FCC fully cellular containership
FCD floating car data (from ‘probe’ vehicles that can create mapping data)
FCL flight crew licensing
FCO financed, constructed and operated
FCS Federation of Communications Services (UK)
Fcst forecast
FCU flight control unit
FD fault (failure) detection (algorithm)
FD flight director
FDA flight data analysis
Use of FDR data to monitor quality of operations.
FDAU flight data acquisition unit
FDC France Developpement Conseil (involved with Galileo)
FDDI fibre distributed data interface
FDE fault (failure) detection and exclusion
FDI fault/failure detection and isolation
FDIR failure detection , isolation and recovery
FDM flight data monitoring (FOQA in US)
The use of an electronic flight data recorder to routinely monitor crew
performance (not jus when an incident occurs). Mandatory in Europe
(>27,000 kg) from 2004; is voluntary in US.
FDMA frequency division multiple access
FDP Flight Dynamics Facility (Galileo)
FDP(S) flight data processing (system)
FDPS flight data processing system
FDR flight data recorder
FDRS flight data recorder system
FDU flux detector unit
FDX full duplex
FEC forward error correction
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