#aviation tech

• Aerocompass — An aerial navigation instrument (gyroscopic, magnetic, or electronic compass) mounted on board aircraft, used for continuously determining and indicating the magnetic heading or flight direction of the aircraft relative to cardinal points.
• Aerial vehicle — Any vehicle, complex technical apparatus, or aircraft structurally designed to navigate, sustain itself, and perform transport operations within Earth's atmosphere. This vast category encompasses both lighter-than-air craft (balloons, airships) and heavier-than-air craft (planes, helicopters, drones, air-cushion vehicles).
• Altitelemetry — A method or technique for remotely measuring the altitude of a moving object (aircraft, rocket, satellite) and automatically transmitting the recorded data, via radio waves or laser, to a ground monitoring station.
• Anti-icing — A technical system, device, or assembly of measures used to prevent the formation and accumulation of ice (icing) on aircraft surfaces, in pipelines, or on sensitive elements of industrial installations. In a structural sense, it acts preventively through thermal or pneumatic heating, or by continuously injecting special chemical substances before freezing occurs.
• Autopilot — An electronic, mechanical, or software structural system capable of guiding, controlling, and maintaining the trajectory, speed, and balance of a vehicle (such as an aircraft, marine vessel, or autonomous car) without the continuous intervention of a human operator. In a figurative and psychological sense, it defines a state of semi-conscious mental functioning where a person executes repetitive, complex, or routine tasks based on rigid automatisms deeply embedded in the subconscious.