In aviation, a ground-controlled approach (GCA) is a type of service provided by air-traffic controllers whereby they guide aircraft to a safe landing...

further guidance is advisory only. The overall concept is known as ground-controlled approach (GCA), and this name was also used to refer to the radar systems...

(procedural) Approach Radar Aerodrome In the United States, controllers may train in several similar specialties: Tower Ground-Controlled Approach (GCA) Terminal...

ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace. The primary purpose of...

has used ground-based radars for anti-aircraft artillery fire control, long range early warning, Ground-controlled interception (GCI), ground directed...

mobile Ground-controlled approach radar first used during World War II. "MPN" is Joint Electronics Type Designation System nomenclature for (Ground) Mobile...

aviation, most particularly in the post war Berlin airlift, was Ground Controlled Approach (GCA). Alvarez spent a few months at the University of Chicago...

the pilot. Precision approach systems provide both lateral (heading) and vertical (glidepath) guidance. Ground controlled approach (GCA) GBAS landing system...

Ground-controlled interception (GCI) is an air defence tactic whereby one or more radar stations or other observational stations are linked to a command...

critically, according to Luis Alvarez) to the development of a ground-controlled approach technology for aircraft, and participated in preliminary meetings...

Johnston worked at the MIT Radiation Laboratory where he invented ground-controlled approach radar. In 1944, he went to the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos...

azimuthal anisotropy in heavy-ion collisions V-2 trailer, a mobile ground-controlled approach radar system element "V-2 Schneider", a mostly instrumental piece...

fictionalized version of the development of the radar-based ground-controlled approach (called "ground-controlled descent" in the novel) aircraft landing system,...

phased array transmission in a rapidly steerable radar system for "ground-controlled approach", a system to aid in the landing of aircraft. At the same time...

AN/MPN-14K Mobile Ground Approach System can be configured as a complete Radar Approach Control (RAPCON) or Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) facility. The...

"ball" call). The carrier-controlled approach is analogous to ground-controlled approach using the ship's precision approach radar. Pilots are told (by...

tactical tower control teams, a mobile tower team, an airspace control flight following team and a local surveillance and ground controlled approach (GCA) radar...

non-science-fiction novel Glide Path (1963), about the development of Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) in World War II. Geoffrey Williams: FLYING THROUGH FIRE...

provide up to CAT-III approaches. The PAR (Precision Approach Radar) radar-based ground-controlled approach (GCA), provides the pilot with the necessary horizontal...

Additionally, the reported ground visibility at the destination airport must be at least 1 statute mile (1.6 km). In executing a contact approach, the pilot is responsible...

organization Ground-controlled approach Groceries Code Adjudicator, in the United Kingdom Gun Control Act of 1968, a U.S. federal law Gun Control Australia...

improve air traffic control, which would be critical as the number of flights grew, the newly developed ground-controlled approach radar system (GCA) was...

Traffic Control Unit 62 (MATCU 62) handled the airport traffic control operations, including the airport tower and GCA radar (Ground Controlled Approach). The...

approach to the airfield, killing 12 of 38 on board. The cause was determined to be a combination of the inoperativity of Ground Controlled Approach (GCA)...

deliver a load of coal. His friend Master Sgt. Hank Kowalski, a ground-controlled approach (GCA) operator, hitches a ride with them to his new station. Hank...

Ground Control (Jet) is a 1998 American disaster thriller film directed by Richard Howard and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce McGill, Kristy Swanson...

of ground-controlled approach (GCA) systems then as the airport surveillance radar as an aid to air traffic control in the 1950s. A number of ground-based...

drain even more fuel. Visibility approaching the airport is so poor a United States Air Force ground-controlled approach specialist (Claude Akins) is called...

longest runway and, at the time, its only runway that offered a ground-controlled approach, at 2325 at 1500'. The weather forecast Parmentier had been given...

trip to Australia and New Zealand. After a ground-controlled approach in bad weather, it struck the ground 700 yd (640 m) short of the runway just as...