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labour.

ATC means air traffic control.

ATS means air traffic service.

AT-VASIS means abbreviated T visual approach slope indicator system.

Australian Height Datum means the datum that sets mean sea level as zero elevation.

A-VDGS means advanced visual docking guidance system.

barrette means 3 or more aeronautical ground lights closely spaced in a transverse line so that from a distance they appear as a short bar of light.

Note   Transverse means transverse to the runway centreline.

becomes aware means:

 1.       in relation to an aerodrome operator's awareness of the numbers of aircraft movements at the aerodrome within a period — the operator is taken to know the relevant number of such movements as soon as a reasonable operator, monitoring such movements in any way, would know; and

(b) in relation to an aerodrome operator's awareness of the numbers of aircraft passenger movements at the aerodrome within a period — the operator is taken to know the relevant number of such movements at the earlier of the following:

 (i) the date of publication, if any, by the Department, of the aircraft passenger movement numbers for the aerodrome for the period;

 (ii) as soon as a reasonable operator, monitoring such movements in any way, would know.

bypass pad means a pad resembling a runway turn pad except that:

        1.    it is extended beyond the declared end of the runway; and

 2.       it allows an aircraft to go around the runway end stripe and runway end lights before turning around 180 degrees to use the runway in a reciprocal direction.

CA/GRO means a certified air/ground radio operator.

CA/GRS means a certified air/ground radio service.

CAR means the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988.

CASR means the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.

CAT, when referring to an instrument approach, means category.

CAVOK means that cloud, visibility and present weather are better than the prescribed values or conditions.

Note   CAVOK is sometimes referred to as "ceiling and visibility OK".

Chicago Convention means the Convention on International Civil Aviation.

civil aviation safety legislation means the Civil Aviation Act 1988, the regulations made under the Act, and instruments, including Civil Aviation Orders and Manuals of Standards, made under the Act or the regulations, and other instruments made under any of the foregoing.

clearway (CWY) means a defined area at the end of the TORA, on the ground or water under the control of the aerodrome operator, that is selected or prepared as a suitable area over which an aeroplane may make a portion of its initial climb to a specified height.

CNS means communications, navigation, surveillance.

Configuration A, for runway guard lights, has the meaning given in subsection 9.99 (1).

Configuration B, for runway guard lights, has the meaning