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San Martin Airport

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San Martin Airport (formerly South County Airport of Santa Clara County, colloquially South County Airport) (formerly Q99) is a public non-towered airport located one mile (1.6 km) east of San Martin, serving Santa Clara County, California, U.S.A. This general aviation airport covers 179 acres (72 ha) and has one runway. [1]

22 relations: Acre, Area navigation, Asphalt, Federal Aviation Administration, Flight plan, General aviation, Global Positioning System, Hectare, Instrument approach, Instrument meteorological conditions, List of airports in the San Francisco Bay Area, Non-towered airport, Palo Alto Airport, Pilot-controlled lighting, Reid–Hillview Airport, Runway, San Martin, California, Santa Clara County, California, Standard instrument departure, U.S. Route 101, United States, Visual meteorological conditions.

Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems.

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Area navigation

Area navigation (RNAV, usually pronounced as ar-neiv) is a method of instrument flight rules (IFR) navigation that allows an aircraft to choose any course within a network of navigation beacons, rather than navigate directly to and from the beacons.

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Asphalt

Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation.

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Flight plan

Flight plans are documents filed by a pilot or flight dispatcher with the local Civil Aviation Authority (e.g. the FAA in the United States) prior to departure which indicate the plane's planned route or flight path.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is all civil aviation operations other than scheduled air services and non-scheduled air transport operations for remuneration or hire.

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Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Instrument approach

In aviation, an instrument approach, or instrument approach procedure (IAP), is a series of predetermined maneuvers for the orderly transfer of an aircraft under instrument flight conditions from the beginning of the initial approach to a landing or to a point from which a landing may be made visually.

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Instrument meteorological conditions

Instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) is an aviation flight category that describes weather conditions that require pilots to fly primarily by reference to instruments, and therefore under instrument flight rules (IFR), rather than by outside visual references under visual flight rules (VFR).

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List of airports in the San Francisco Bay Area

The following airports are in the area around the San Francisco Bay, including the cities of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland.

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Non-towered airport

A non-towered airport is an airport without a control tower, or air traffic control (ATC) unit.

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Palo Alto Airport

Palo Alto Airport is a general aviation airport in the city of Palo Alto in Santa Clara County, California, USA, near the south end of San Francisco Bay on the western shore.

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Pilot-controlled lighting

Pilot-controlled lighting (PCL), also known as aircraft radio control of aerodrome lighting (ARCAL) or pilot-activated lighting (PAL), is a system which allows aircraft pilots to control the lighting of an airport or airfield's approach lights, edge lights, and taxiways via radio.

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Reid–Hillview Airport

Reid–Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County is in the eastern part of San Jose, in Santa Clara County, California.

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Runway

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft".

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San Martin, California

San Martin is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Clara County, California, United States.

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Santa Clara County, California

Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is California's 6th most populous county, with a population was 1,781,642, as of the 2010 census.

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Standard instrument departure

Standard instrument departure (SID) routes, also known as departure procedures (DP), are published flight procedures followed by aircraft on an IFR flight plan immediately after takeoff from an airport.

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U.S. Route 101

U.S. Route 101, or U.S. Highway 101 (US 101) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs through the states of California, Oregon, and Washington, on the West Coast of the United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Visual meteorological conditions

In aviation, visual meteorological conditions (or VMC) is an aviation flight category in which visual flight rules (VFR) flight is permitted—that is, conditions in which pilots have sufficient visibility to fly the aircraft maintaining visual separation from terrain and other aircraft.

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Redirects here:

Q99, San martin airport, South County Airport, South County Airport of Santa Clara County.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Martin_Airport

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