Aviation Acronyms
In order to help define some of the technical items and acronyms for the general public and the aviation community at large we have created the following guide.
- ACIP
Airport Capital Improvement Program
- ACP
Airport Construction Program
- AIP
Airport Improvement Program
- APMS
Airport Pavement Management System
- AWOS
Automated Weather Observation System
- FAA
Federal Aviation Administration
- FOD
Foreign Object Debris
- IAP
Instrument Approach Procedure
- ILS
Instrument Landing System
- L/T/D
Longitudinal/Transverse/Diagonal
- MALSR
Medium-intensity Approach Light System with RAIL
- MIRL/MITL
Medium Intensity Runway or Taxiway Lights
- NPE
Non-Primary Equipment
- NPIAS
National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems
- NPS
National Priority System
- OAC
Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission
- OASP
Oklahoma Airport System Plan
- ODALS
Omni-directional Approach Light System
- ODO
Overall Development Objective
- PAPI
Precision Approach Path Indicator
- PCI
Pavement Condition Index
- PCL
Pilot Controlled Lighting
- PER
Preliminary Engineering Report
- RAIL
Runway Alignment Indicator Lights
- REIL
Runway End Identifier Lights
- RWY
Runway
- TWY
Taxiway