| JEPPESEN JETPLAN |
| B/O |  BURN OFF
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| B/RC | BURN OF TO RECLEARPOINT
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| BOF | BURN OF FUEL
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| ETOPS CANADA |
| BECMG | Becoming (Weather)
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| HONEYWELL |
| BAe | British Aerospace
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| BCA | Boeing Commercial Airplanes
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| BCAS | Business and Commuter Aviation Systems- Beacon Collision Avoidance System: forerunner of TCAS
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| BEA | Bureau d’Enquetes Accidents: French equivalent of NTSB
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| BFE | Buyer-Furnished Equipment: not supplied as standard equipment by airframe mfgr- selected by customer (see ASE)
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| BIT | Built-in Test
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| BITE | Built-in Test Equipment
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| B-NAV | Basic Area Navigatin: concept of easing congestion in European airways by requiring aircraft to be fitted with equipment that will allow more direct routings by ATC
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| BPS | Bits Per Second
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| HONEYWELL |
| bps | Bits Per Second
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| AVIONICS GLOSSARY |
| Barometric altitude | Height with respect to fixed earth reference (above mean sea level), Synonyms: pressure altitude, Symbols: h sub b, Typical Units: ft, Dimensions: Length,
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| Barometric pressure | Height with respect to fixed earth reference (barometric altitude, feet above mean sea level), Synonyms: pressure, Symbols: p sub a, Typical Units: in HG,mbar, Dimensions: Mass /Time-squared * Length,
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| BC | Bus controller
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| Beacon | A device, usually based on the ground, that aids in determining position or direction,
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| Bias | An offset applied to a measurement for error correction, Synonyms: offset
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| BIS | Built-in simulation
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| Body | The aircraft, usually referring to a coordinate system,
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| Boresighting | A basic control to a data source from controls and displays to boresight a device, Also, a procedure to align the center line of physical devices, usually update sensors, so that they provide the most accurate results possible, a basic control to a data source from controls and displays, commonly required by FLIR, MMR, boresight procedures commonly result in correction factors to be downloaded from the host processor to the device, during boresighting, the device is usually not available, See Also: alignment, calibration, initialization,
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| BPF | Band-pass filter
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| BRG | Bearing
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| GLOSSARTIST AVIATION GLOSSARY |
| BC. | Bus controller
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| Beacon. | A device, usually based on the ground, that aids in determining position or direction
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| Bias. | An offset applied to a measurement for error correction Synonyms: offset
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| BIS. | Built-in simulation
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| Body. | The aircraft, usually referring to a coordinate system
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| Boresighting. | A basic control to a data source from controls and displays to boresight a device Also, a procedure to align the center line of physical devices, usually update sensors, so that they provide the most accurate results possible a basic control to a data source from controls and displays commonly required by FLIR, MMR boresight procedures commonly result in correction factors to be downloaded from the host processor to the device during boresighting, the device is usually not available See Also: alignment, calibration, initialization
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| BPF. | Band-pass filter
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| BRG. | Bearing
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| APS AERO CHART |
| BA | Bahrain (mid - east nation on west shore of Persian Gulf) also, braking action
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| BB | Barbados (eastern - most Caribbean island nation)
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| BC | Botswanna (central S Africa nation)
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| BC | British Columbia (Canada province on Pacific Ocean) also, back course (of ILS approach)
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| bcn | beacon
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| bcst | broadcast
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| BD | Bermuda (UK western N Atlantic islands)
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| bdry | boundary
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| BE | Belgium (W Europe nation on N Sea)
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| BEQ | Bachelor Enlisted Quarters
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| BF | The Bahamas (northernmost Caribbean islands nation)
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| BG | Bangladesh (Indian nation on N short of Bay of Bengal)
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| BH | Belize (Central-American nation on Gulf of Honduras)
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| BK | Bosnia and Herzegovina (Balkan nation on Adriatic Sea)
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| BKN | broken
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| BL | Bolivia (central South America nation)
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| bldg | building
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| blkd | blocked
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