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alternate airport
- Definição1
- An alternate airport is an airport to which an aircraft may proceed when it becomes either impossible or inadvisable, for technical reasons, to proceed to or to land at the airport of intended landing.
- Fonte1
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Manual on the Regulation of International Air Transport. 2. ed. Montreal: ICAO, 2004. (Doc. 9626)
- Definição2
- An airport designated in an IFR flight plan, providing a suitable destination if a landing at the intended airport becomes inadvisable.
- Fonte2
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION. Pilot's handbook of aeronautical knowledge. [s.l.], 2008. Disponível em: http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/pilot_handbook/media/PHAK%20-%20Cover-Preface.pdf. Acesso em: 26 jun. 2014.
- Fonte3
- DUTRA, Luiz Costa e Silva. Glossário aerotécnico: inglês-português. São Paulo: Traço, 1979. 469 p.
- Fonte4
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Flight planning and fuel management manual. Montreal, 2012. (Doc. 9976).
- Contexto
- When the weather conditions forecast for the destination and first alternate airport are marginal at least one additional alternate must be designated.
- Subárea
- Air Navigation
- Related Term
- alternate aerodrome
- Spanish
- aeropuerto alternativo