I am having a problem understanding some of the posts here. I am a newbie with no “hands on” experience in the aviation/military field(I only know how to fly on a computer and I have not been in the military), I just have a love of airplanes. Sometimes there are some or many acronyms in some of these posts and I do not know what they mean. Maybe there are others like me who do not know either-but maybe I am the only one! I noticed berny used some acronyms in a post recently but the first time he used them he typed the whole phrase before he started using the acronym-Good job berny!!! Can everyone do the same? It would make me(and maybe some others) understand what the heck is being talked about! Or is there an acronym list, or does someone want to start one? Or should this be in the Stupid Questions thread?
I(or anyone else) could google the acronym but that takes to long. If they were already in the message it would be so much easier, for me at least.
Yeh, there’s enough acronyms in aviation, I work in avionics, back in school are started writing down every acronym as it came up and by the end there were a couple paged worth.
Toomanyslurpees, I was thinking of doing the same thing since there does not seem to be a list here. Anyone care to help and send any acronyms(with the full phrase please!!) to me to start a list? If you do send any please be nice and send relevant acronyms. I will put the dirty ones on a different list.[:-^]
Ummmm… Swanny,
Did you happen to check some of these.
There are some acronyms that may not be suitable for some of this audience! [censored]
I was not interested in the everyday acronyms. I was mainly interested in listing aviation/military acronyms like the ones used in the Vietnam thread. I looked for a few aviation acronyms I knew but they were not there. Anybody want to help?
Depending on which aircraft you are talking about, there are hundreds of acronyms. Did you know that RADAR is an acronym for Radio Aerial Detection And Ranging? I am just as guilty of using acronyms without explaining what they mean. It is hard to break the habit. When you spend so many years in the military, and are around former or current military people, you tend to talk in code. We just assume that every one knows what a CADC (Central Air Data Computer) is. Other examples are AIM (Air Intercept Missile), GBU (Guided Bomb Unit), LGB (Laser Guided Bomb), TER (Triple Ejector Rack), MER (Multiple Ejector Rack) and AGM ( Air to Ground Missile).
TP = Test Plan or Procedure or Plan, or Technical Publication
MFC = Missile Fire Control or Micro (or Multiple) function control
RTB = Return To Base
ck = Check
C/W = Constant Watch
R2 = Replaced Two
RTFS = Return To Flying (or Fighting) Status.
OOC = Operational Order Control
So I think you mean:
Aircraft returned with in-flight emergency with problems affecting trim control. Tested trim components and found the micro function circuits were defective. Replaced two circuit boards, and checked trim control using constant watch and aircraft checked out okay. Aircraft returned to flying status within standard guidelines.
I spent 21 years on active duty with the USAF, so I understand a lot of the acronyms, especially the ones used back in that ancient history time. There have been many new ones added since I retired, especially related to modern electronics and weaponry. Many of those cause me to scratch my FIH, (folicle impaired head), and wonder WTF, (you figure out that one), the person is talking about.
There are several current aircrew members and maintenance guys over on the ARC (Aircraft Resources Center) forum that frequently include many military acronyms in their posts. I am totally mystified by many of them.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
my personal acronym list.
GMOF = Grand Master Old Fart. 100 years old or more, such as Yoda
MOF = Master Old Fart. 80 years old or more
SOF = Senior Old Fart. 70 years old or more
OF = Old Fart. 60 years old or more
AOP = Apprentice Old Fart. 50 years old or more
HOF = Honorary Old Fart. 40 years old or more
less than 40 = too young to understand such things.
as a semi-pro lexicographer, i have sought such lists and they are legion. i can’t keep up, but just do a google search refining what i’m after like "acronym/aviation/mongolian. other keywords are glossary, word list, dictionary. asking vets is always fun, you’ll get all sorts of phrases, abbreviations with variations within units! it can become a hobby in itself, so watchout. i also use webcrawler which usually produces results not seen on google. so saddle up your 782 gear and mount-out. pete saussy
Aircraft RTB, returned to base, w/comp, with compressor stalls. Ran acft, aircraft, on TP, test pad and found the MFC, main fuel control, bad. R2, removed and replaced, main fuel control and ran the engine for a trim check. Aircraft checked good. Aircraft RTFS, returned to flying status withing OOC, don’t know that one, standards.
I recieved my training as an aircraft mechanic in civil aviation and has an AML cat. B1 and B2 … yeah i know more acronyms. AML = Aircraft Maintenance Licence catagory B1 and B2.
Today I work in military aviation on F-16 in the Royal Danish Airforce. Unfortunately civil and military aviation use different acronyms to describe the same thing, on a Boeing 737 you have a rudder PCU, Power Control Unit, the same thing on an F-16 is called a rudder ISA, Integrated Servo Actuator, they do the same job and the principal of how they work is almost the same aswell.
You get so used to using the acronyms in your daily work that you tend to use them even when talking to people who are not in the know.
