GROUND-CONTROLLED APPROACH Definition & Meaning

ground-controlled approach

or ground-con·trol approach

[ ground-kuhn-trohld ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Aeronautics.

a system in which an observer interprets radar observations of the position of an aircraft and transmits continuous instructions to its pilot for landing. : GCA

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of ground-controlled approach¹

First recorded in 1940–45

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One hope of betterment lay in the fact that "ground-controlled approach," in which radar is used to guide a pilot on to a field he cannot see, was being installed at New York, Chicago and Washington airports.

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