upgauge

en-verb

upgauge (third-person singular simple present upgauges, present participle upgauging, simple past and past participle upgauged)

upgauges (present singular third-person)
upgauging (participle present)
upgauged (participle past)
upgauged (past)

A flight is initially scheduled on a Boeing 737-800. Due to high demand, the airline might upgauge the flight to a Boeing 737-900, which has a larger passenger capacity.

They have proposed a scheme forcing airlines to upgauge the planes serving La Guardia. But at a capac ity constrained, slot-controlled airport like La Guardia, discriminating against regional aircraft could jeopardize service to countless, communities communities as large as Jacksonville, Knoxville, Columbus, Dayton, Louisville, Savannah and dozens more.

2007 September 28, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation, Airline Delays and Consumer Service: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Aviation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, volume 4, U.S. Government Printing Office, →ISBN, pages 49-50:

Following the postpandemic recovery, pilot shortages have lead many airlines, especially in the United States, to upgauge (move from regional jets up to 100-plus set narrowbodies) their fleets.

2024, Vitaly Guzhva, Sunder Raghavan, Damon J. D'Agostino, Aircraft Leasing and Financing: Tools for Success in International Aircraft Acquisition and Management, 2 edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 36:

(aviation) What an airline does when it replaces an originally scheduled aircraft with a larger one of a similar type.


face-on

(aviation, nautical) With the broadside, propeller or stern directed towards something.


deck angle

Duncan felt the aircraft nose come up, felt the nose gear leave the runway. The deck angle increased to ten degrees. The plane ran along on the main gear for a short distance and was airborne. The deck angle increased further. At this weight, if the flying pilot did it by the book, Duncan knew the deck angle would go to fourteen degrees.

2018 February 8, Terry Liittschwager, chapter 30, in Wrongful Act, archived from the original on 2024-11-23:

(aviation) Pitch angle; the angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and the horizontal plane.


SELCAL

en-noun

SELCAL (countable and uncountable, plural SELCALs)

(aviation) A system for alerting a specific aircraft that a radio station on the ground wishes to communicate with them, via transmitting an aircraft-specific sequence of audio tones over the aircraft's company radio frequency to an automatic decoder on board the aircraft.

Duncan awoke to Li Quan's nudging. “What is a sell call?” Duncan's brain needed a moment to come online; sell call didn't make sense. Then he made the connection. A SELCAL was coming through. He jerked the headset off Li Quan's head, donning it in time to hear the words “hundred Chinese aboard your aircraft.”

2018 February 8, Terry Liittschwager, chapter 32, in Wrongful Act, archived from the original on 2024-11-23:

(aviation, countable) An alert sent via this system.


SELCAL

en-verb

SELCAL (third-person singular simple present SELCALs, present participle SELCALing, simple past and past participle SELCALed)

SELCALs (present singular third-person)
SELCALing (participle present)
SELCALed (participle past)
SELCALed (past)
SelCal (alternative)

Captains earned big bucks because they had to make big decisions. Captain Ray Hanson commanded ACI Flight 103, and he feared that today he would earn those big bucks.
San Francisco ARINC had SELCALed them. When the flight engineer answered, he found Sam Devlin on the other end. The owner of Air Cargo International had an incredible message.

(aviation, transitive) To send a SELCAL alert to (an aircraft).


course correction

en-noun

course correction (plural course corrections)

(aviation, nautical, literally) An alteration to the current course of an aircraft or other vessel to ensure it is directed towards the intended destination.


debris response area

debris response area (plural debris response areas)

(transport, aviation, space flight) A hazard zone that is declared to bar flights into the region, and keep aircraft away from flying into debris falling out of space, such as from a rocket accident or reentry event.


VLR

(aviation) Initialism of very long range.


Embraer

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(aviation) A Brazilian aerospace company known for their commercial aircraft.