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| KPI |  Key Performance Indicator
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| KPRG | Key Project Review Group
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| KPT | Karlsruhe Planning Team
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| KPU | Key Pad Unit
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| KR | Knowledge of Result
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| KR 20 | A measure of the internal consistency, or homogeneity, or scalability, of a test material (Ferguson, 1976).
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| KRA | Key Result Areas
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| KSA | Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
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| KSAO | Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other personal requirements
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| KSD | Kontrollstreifendruck (DE)
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| KSL | Kelsall Tx/Rx Station
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| KT or kt | knots * (i.e. 1 NM/hour)
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| KTD | Keyboard Tabulator Display
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| KUAC | Karlsruhe Upper Aispace Control Centre
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| Ku-Band | A Radar Frequency Band
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| Kurtosis | A term which refers to the flatness or peakedness of one distribution in relation to another (Ferguson, 1976).
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| KVDT | Keyboard Video Display Terminal
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| KVM | Keyboard, Video, Mouse
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| KW, kW | Kilowatt
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| KYB | Keyboard
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| RADEWIN AVIATION ABBREVIATIONS |
| KHz | Kilohertz (1´000 Hertz)
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| KIAS | knots indicated air speed
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| Kph | Kilometers per hour
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| KPI | Key Performance Indicator
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| kt(s) | knots (1.852 km/h)
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| KTAS | knots true air speed
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| ATC ACRONYMS |
| KB | kilobytes (thousand bytes)
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| KBITS | kilobits
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| Kbps | kilobits per second
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| kgls | kinematic GPS landing system
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| KHz | kilohertz (1000 cycles per second)
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| KPS | KB per second
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| KTS | knots
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| KVA | kilovolt-ampere
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| KW | kilowatt
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| ATC ABBREVIATIONS |
| KDP | ey Decision Point
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| EUROCONTROL GLOSSARY |
| Ka | A Radar Frequency Band. The set of frequencies between 26.5 and 40 GHz.
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| Kalman Filter | A filter for combining multiple data sources, usually of different types, to produce an estimate better than any single source.
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| Kilohertz | One thousand hertz.
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| Kinematic Surveying | A precision D-GPS surveying technique. The roving user does not need to stop to collect precision information. Meter centimeter level accuracy is available using modern dual-frequency carrier-phase measurement techniques.
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| Knots | A unit of speed of one nautical mile (nm) per hour.
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| Knowledge | Information required to develop skills. Job concepts or rules (declarative knowledge) and their interrelationship (structural knowledge). The job-specific content or information which a person has gained through training, education and/or experience. Knowledge is built upon the foundation of mental abilities that a person brings to the situation.
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| Ku | Radar Frequency Band. The set of frequencies between 12.5 and 18 GHz.
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| IATA AIRLINE |
| K1 | Channel Express
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| K2 | Kyrghyzstan Airlines
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| K7 | Air Yakutaviatrans
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| K8 | Skyway Airlines
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| K9 | Skyward Aviation
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| KA | Dragonair
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| KB | Druk Air
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