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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A control mode in which an aircraft is talked down for landing through the use of surveillance and precision approach radar.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar

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  • “A carrier-controlled approach (CCA) is almost identical to a ground-controlled approach (GCA), with the difference that the runway is moving at twenty knots or more, probably pitching, rolling, and/or yawing.”

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  1. aircraft landing
  1. airplane landing

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  1. cmdNew
  1. ground control

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