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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
airport
alternate aerodrome
Français
aéroport de dégagement