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Glossary of Terms or Abbreviations

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ACAS Airborne Collision Avoidance System

ACCID Accident

AD Airworthiness Directive

ADREP Accident/Incident Reporting System

AFTN Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network

AIRPROX Aircraft Proximity

A/C Aircraft

AMC Acceptable Means of Compliance

AOC Air Operator Certificate

ASMI Airspace Management Incident

ATC Air Traffic Control

ATS Air Traffic Service

CAA Civil Aviation Authority (of Oman)

CAR Civil Aviation Regulation

CCAA Contracting Civil Aviation Authority

COM Communications/Equipment

DOTSB Director of Oman Transport Safety Bureau

EFOD Electronic File of Differences

FIC Flight Information Centre

FIS Flight Information Service

FOD Foreign Object Damage

HAAIS Head of Air Accident Investigation Section

IATA International Air Transport Association

ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization IIC Investigator-in-charge

INCID Incident

ISA International Standard Atmosphere

LOTC Loss of Total Control

LSALT Lowest Safe Altitude

LVP Low Visibility Procedures

OLF Online Framework