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airborne weather radar
- Definição1
- Safety-critical instrument assisting pilots in deviating from potential hazardous weather conditions and detecting wind shear and microbursts. This use is expected to continue for the long term.
- Fonte1
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Handbook on radio frequency spectrum requirements for civil aviation. Montreal, 2014. (Doc. 9718 AN/957).
- Definição2
- A radar installation in an aircraft to give the flight crew information about the weather along their route.
- Fonte2
- CROCKER, David. Dictionary of aviation. 2nd ed. London: A&C, 2005.
- Fonte3
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Wind shear. Montreal, 1987. (Cir. 186 AN/122).
- Nota Adicional1
- Acronym in English: AWR.
- Nota Adicional2
- One of the uses of airborne weather radar is to avoid penetration of aircraft into hazardous weather.
- Contexto
- Another system simulates the three wind components in space and time, turbulence, temperature, pressure, precipitation (varying rate) and visibility, and to complete the realism correlates this with visual and aural cues and typical airborne weather radar output.
- Français
- radar météorologique de bord