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a lifting mechanism which provides exact vertical movement parallel to the aircraft. Used by high-loaders to ensure food or cargo is not upset or spilled, Above Ground Level, absence of delay, except for time required for transmission by electromagnetic energy, between occurrence of event or reception of data and knowledge of event or reception of data at some other place, Accelerating Slip Reduction, Active Destination Coded Vehicle - for baggage handling operations, Advanced Detection Software, Advanced Passenger Screening, Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network, African Airlines Association, Air Transport Association of America, Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, Aircraft Guidance Nose-In System, Aircraft Rescue and FireFighting Vehicle, aircraft type which can be converted to or from an all-passenger to an all-cargo carrying aircraft, Air-Cycle Machine, Airport Information Management System, Airport Operational DataBase, Airports Council International, American Standard Code for Information Interchange, Anti-icing/De-icing Fluid, Anti-lock Braking System, any type of container, container with integral pallet, aircraft container or aircraft pallet, Aqueous Film Forming Foam, assembly of components comprising either an aircraft pallet and pallet net, an aircraft pallet and pallet net over an igloo, or an aircraft container. The purpose of the unit is to enable individual pieces of cargo to be assembled into a standard-sized unit to facilitate rapid loading/unloading of aircraft having compatible handling and restraint systems which interface directly with the unit, Automated Fingerprint Identification System, Automated Ticket and Boarding pass, Automatic Data Acquisition And Processing System, Auxiliary Power Unit, average peak sound pressure level, Baggage Information Display System, Binary Coded Decimal, Bits Per Second, BromoChlorodiFluoromethane (fire extinguishant), BromoTrifluoroMethane (fire extinguishant), Build, Operate and Transfer, Build, Operate, Lease and Transfer, Build, Own and Operate, Built-In Test Equipment, Cabin Pressure Controller, Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, Cathode-Ray Tube, Central DataBase, Centre of Gravity, Characters Per Second, Charge-Coupled Device, a solid-state camera, Civil Aviation Authority, class A: wood, tissue, paper etc; class B: fuel, petrol, oil; class C: butane, propane, hydrogen, Closed-Circuit Television, Commercial Off-The-Shelf equipment, Common User Terminal Equipment, Complementary Metal-Oxide Silicon, Compressed Natural Gas, Computer Tomography, conveyor system either in an aircraft or in terminal facilities consisting of various size balls or rollers over which ULDs can be moved, Crash Fire Rescue vehicle, Data Processing Unit, decibel (0.1 bel). Measurement of sound pressure relative to standard datum level of 0.0002 dyne/cm2, Departure Control System, Destination Coded Vehicle - for baggage handling operations, devices installed in the aircraft floor which overlap on to the aircraft ULD base (pallet) for restraint purposes, Display Processor, effective perceived noise level with tone/duration correction, Electronic Data Processing, Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory, Elevating Transfer Vehicle (freight terminals), Emergency Supply Unit, energy - average sound pressure level, Engine Test Facility, Environmental Control Systems, Environmental Protection Agency, Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory, Explosive Detection System, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Federal Aviation Administration (USA), Federal Aviation Regulations: for example FAR Pt 36 - noise, Fibreglass-Reinforced Plywood, fixed configuration of an aircraft type to carry both passengers and cargo on the main deck, Fixed-Base Operator, flexible hosepipe, stowed on a hosereel on a CFR vehicle, used for manual firefighting operations, Flight Information Display System, Flight Information Service, Foreign Object Damage, Forward-Looking InfraRed, free weight allowance given to shippers as part of the IATA unitisation incentive programmes for non-member owned registered ULDs, Full Authority Digital Engine Control, Gate Information Display System, Glass-Reinforced Plastic, Graphical User Interface, Gross Vehicle Weight, Ground Power Unit, Ground Support Equipment, hectares, Hold Baggage Screening, horizontal surface consisting of freely rotating balls in housings and protruding above surrounding surfaces. They are used to enable omnidirectional movement of units passing over it, HydroCarbons, Improvised Explosive Device, Improvised Explosive Device Disposal, Integrated Airport Systems, International Air Transport Association, International Civil Aviation Organisation, International Programmed Airlines Reservation System, international quality standard, International Standards Organisation, item of equipment consisting of a flat platform with flat undersurface of standard dimensions on which goods are assembled and secured before being loaded as a unit on to the aircraft, Lease Develop and Operate, Light Emitting Diode, Line Replacement Unit, Liquid Crystal Display, Liquid Natural Gas, Liquid Petroleum Gas, Low-Altitude Parachute Extraction System, Low-Profile Transfer Vehicle, Machine Readable Travel Document, Main Engine Controls, maximum allowable combined weight of the unit and its Contents (payload), maximum allowable weight of the payload, equal to the difference between the maximum gross weight and the tare weight, Mean Time Between Critical Failures, Mean Time Between Failures, Mean Time Between Repair, Mean Time To Repair, measurement of pressure, for example foam monitors on air crash tenders. 1 bar = 1.02 kg/cm2, milliroentgens, Ministry of Defence, MultiUser FIDS, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Ambient Air Quality Standards, National Fire Protection Association (USA), New Large Aircraft, Nitrogen Oxides, No Technical Objections (towbarless tractors), No-Break Power Transfer, noise, Noise Monitoring Terminal, 'normal' passenger baggage is defined as being not larger than 900 mm (36 in) long by 400 mm (15 in) wide by 700 mm (28 in) high, weight 34 kg (75 lb), nor smaller than 350 mm (14 in) long by 230 mm (9 in) wide by 150 mm (6 in) high, nor articles having loose trailing cord ties or loose bindings, sharp or unusually shaped projections, notice to airmen, Optical Character Recognition, Original Equipment Manufacturer, parts per million: used in fuel filtration to describe water Content, Pavement Classification Number indicating the strength of a pavement relative to aircraft (ICAO Annex 14 Amendment 35), period during which hardware is inoperative following technical failure, Personal Digital Assistant, Personal Identification Number, picture element, pipe through which water and/or foam is projected from a fire tender, platform-type towed vehicle equipped with rollers, castors or ball mat, used to accept, discharge and handle ULDs on the ground, Pounds per Square Inch, power developed by engine or prime mover/total product or yield from a system, Power Factor, Power Supply Unit, Power Take-Off (shaft output), Pre-Conditioned Air, Pressure Drop Regulator, Printed Circuit Board, Probability of Detection, Programmable Controller/Personal Computer, Programmable Logic Controller, Programmable Read-Only Memory, Public Address system, Public Automatic Branch Exchange, Public Service Vehicle, Public Telecommunications System (many European nations), Random-Access Memory, Rapid Intervention Vehicle for firefighting and rescue operations, Read-Only Memory, recommended but not mandatory target weight for an aircraft ULD, revolutions per minute, revolutions per second, Root-Mean-Square/Range Measurement System (noise), see aircraft container and/or unit load device, see fifth wheel steering, see fire classifications, Shaft HorsePower, Short Take-Off and Landing, Silicon-Controlled Rectifier, used in the control of electrically powered vehicles, Single Event Noise Exposure Level, also known as LAX, single event noise exposure level; also known as 'senel', Société International de Télécommunications Aéronautiques, Sound Exposure Level, sound level with A-weighting applied, Sound Pressure Level, special aeronautical information message, Standard Wire Gauge (UK), standardisation agreements, Static Thrust, Stretched Upper Deck, Superior Video Graphics Array, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition, system installed in the floor of an aircraft compartment which secures the aircraft ULD to the floor to prevent its movement during flight, Taxiway, telephone information system (Germany), the derived SI unit of absorbed dose of ionising radiation equal to 1 joule per kg, the unit is equipped with an integral pallet or forklift entries or tineways so that it can be picked up by a forklift, Thin Film Transistor, Threat Image Projection, Transportation Security Administration (USA), type of running gear on trailer/dollies which uses a turntable over an axle and wheel assembly. Also known as 'turntable steering', type of running gear on trailers and dollies which permits each unit in a train to follow the track of the towing vehicle, ULD which interfaces directly with the aircraft cargo handling and restraint system, ULD-shaped to fit the lower deck of the high-capacity aircraft. These units come in half sizes and full sizes, related to the width across the aircraft, unit of data or information in all digital (binary) systems comprising single character (0 or 1) in binary number, Universal Time (Co-ordinated), Variable Public Display System, vehicle used to lift loads vertically and transport them by means of twin tines mounted on the front, Vertical Take-Off and Landing, Video Bandwidth Compression, Video Graphics Array, Visual Display Unit, water contamination in fuel systems, webbing or rope net for restraining load on an aircraft pallet; it may also be used in conjunction with an igloo, weight of empty ULD. It includes all liners and/or fittings and so forth when these are required by the specifications or as registered with IATA, Wireless Networking, X-ray Image Recording