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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

"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...

provided deployable surveillance radars, ground-controlled approach, TACANs, radio direction finding, control towers, and communications equipment. While...

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...

system (ILS) installed at Heathrow. The approach to Runway 10L was undertaken using a ground controlled approach (GCA) (the first time Howard had done this)...

buildings, a refueling facility, an instrument landing system, and ground controlled approach (GCA). Almost no trace remains of the base. BADGER DEPLOYMENT...

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...

Patterson AFB runway during a Ground-controlled approach landing.[j] On final approach, the airplane went out of control and crashed in a field. All seven...

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...

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)...

Force Base in Newfoundland. During the Korean War, he served as a Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) operator and was selected as the controller to direct the...

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

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

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

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...