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TACAN
- Usado para
- UHF tactical air navigation aid
- Definição1
- An electronic navigation system, operating in the ultrahigh frequency (UHF) range. The name TACAN is an acronym for TACtical Air Navigation. TACAN is used by military aircraft to give the pilot both the distance and direction from the transmitting stations on the ground. Civilian aircraft have equipment that use the TACAN ground facilities to show the distance to the navigational fix. The equipment used in civilian aircraft is called DME (Distance Measuring Equipment).
- Fonte1
- CRANE, Dale (ed.). Dictionary of aeronautical terms. 4th ed. Newcastle: ASA, 2006.
- Definição2
- An aircraft navigation system that uses UHF signals from a transmitting station for distance and bearing. Full form Tactical area navigation aid.
- Fonte2
- CROCKER, David. Dictionary of aviation. 2nd ed. London: A&C, 2005.
- Fonte3
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION. Instrument procedures handbook: FAA-H-8083-16. Oklahoma, OK: FAA, 2014.
- Fonte4
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Manual on the Universal Access Transceiver (UAT). 2. ed. Montreal, 2012. (Doc 9861)
- Nota adicional1
- Acronym in English: TACAN
- Contexto
- The azimuth feature of VOR aids and the azimuth and distance (DME) features of VORTAC and TACAN aids are assigned certain frequency protected areas of airspace that are intended for application to established airway and route use and to provide guidance for planning flights outside of established airways or routes.
- Appendix B describes the interference environments when operating UAT in the presence of distance measuring equipment (DME), tactical air navigation (TACAN), joint tactical information distribution system (JTIDS) and multifunctional information distribution system (MIDS) signals as well as the effects of UAT self-interference which were assumed for the performance simulations documented in Appendix A.
- Subárea1
- Air Navigation