ground-controlled approach

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsGCA

   Broaderaircraft landing

Questions about ground-controlled approach

What does ground-controlled approach mean?

ground-controlled approach means "aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar".

What is another word for ground-controlled approach?

Close synonyms include GCA. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ground-controlled approach a common word?

ground-controlled approach 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.