What does PS stand for in aviation?
What does PS stand for in aviation? Ps stands for Specific Excess Power (US Navy aviation) This definition appears somewhat frequently and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories: Military and Government.
What are the 5 Ps in aviation?
One such approach involves regular evaluation of: Plan, Plane, Pilot, Passengers, and Programming. The point of the Five-P approach is not to memorize yet another aviation mnemonic.
Do pilots speak in code?
Pilots use the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Phonetic Alphabet to communicate. Pilots never pronounce letters when they are transmitting to Air Traffic Control, and vice-versa. Instead, each letter of the alphabet is assigned a code word to represent the letter.
Why do pilots say Roger?
(In 1957, the English phonetic alphabet changed the R to Romeo, but by that time, Roger was deeply embedded in the minds of pilots.) So, in short, Roger means r which stands for received. The word Roger means nothing more.