ground control

1. 1.

   a communication system for sending continuous radio messages to an airplane pilot who is making a ground-controlled approach to landing

   Broadercommunication system

Questions about ground control

What does ground control mean?

ground control means "a communication system for sending continuous radio messages to an airplane pilot who is making a ground-controlled approach to landing".

Is ground control a common word?

ground control is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.