C - Aviation Glossary
- Cabin altitude
- Cage
- Calculated Landing Time (CLT)
- Calibrated
- Calibrated airspeed
- Calibrated orifice
- Call For Release (CFR)
- Call Up
- Camber
- CAMP
- Canadian Minimum Navigation Performance Specification Airspace (CMNPS)
- Canard
- Canard configuration
- Cantilever
- Cardinal Altitudes
- Cardinal Flight Levels
- CAS
- CAT II
- Catch Point
- Category
- CDI
- Ceiling
- Ceiling [ICAO]
- Center of gravity (CG)
- Center of gravity limits
- Center of gravity range
- Center of pressure
- Center Radar Arts Presentation/processing (CENRAP)
- Center Radar Arts Presentation/processing-Plus (CENRAP-PLUS)
- Center Tracon Automation System (CTAS)
- Center Weather Advisory (CWA)
- Center's Area
- Central East Pacific (CEP)
- Centrifugal flow compressor
- Centrifugal force
- Centripetal force
- Certified Tower Radar Display (CTRD)
- Chaff
- Changeover point (COP)
- Chart Supplement U.S.
- Charted VFR Flyways
- Charted Visual Flight Procedure Approach
- Chase
- Chase Aircraft
- CHDO
- Checklist
- Chop
- Chord line
- CIRCLE TO RUNWAY (runway number)
- Circle-to-Land Maneuver
- Circling approach
- Circling Maneuver
- Circling Minima
- Civil Aircraft
- Civil Aircraft Operations (CAO)
- Class
- Class A Airspace
- Class B Airspace
- Class C Airspace
- Class D Airspace
- Class E Airspace
- Class G Airspace
- Clean configuration
- Clear Air Turbulence (CAT)
- Clear ice
- CLEAR OF THE RUNWAY
- Clearance
- Clearance delivery
- Clearance Limit
- Clearance Limit [ICAO]
- CLEARANCE ON REQUEST
- CLEARANCE VOID IF NOT OFF BY (TIME)
- Clearance void time
- CLEARANCE VOID TIME [ICAO]
- CLEARED (Type of) APPROACH
- CLEARED APPROACH
- CLEARED AS FILED
- CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF
- CLEARED FOR THE OPTION
- CLEARED THROUGH
- CLEARED TO LAND
- Clearway
- CLIMB TO VFR
- CLIMB VIA
- Climbout
- Climbout speed
- Close Parallel Runways
- Closed Runway
- Closed Traffic
- Cloud
- Clutter
- CMP
- Coastal Fix
- Codes
- Coefficient of lift (CL)
- Cold front
- Cold Temperature Compensation
- Collaborative Trajectory Options Program (CTOP)
- Combined Center-RAPCON (CERAP)
- Commercial air tour
- Commercial operator
- Common Point
- Common Route
- Common Traffic Advisory Frequency (CTAF)
- Community−Based Organization (CBO)
- Commuter operation
- Compass course
- Compass Locator
- Compass Rose
- Complex aircraft
- Comply With Restrictions
- Composite Flight Plan
- Compressor pressure ratio
- Compressor stall
- Compulsory Reporting Points
- Computer navigation fix
- Computer Navigation Fix (CNF)
- Concentric rings
- Condensation
- Condensation nuclei
- Conditions Not Monitored
- Cone of confusion
- Confidence Maneuver
- Configuration
- Configuration, Maintenance, and Procedures (CMP) document
- Conflict Alert
- Conflict Resolution
- Conformance
- Conformance Region
- Consensus standard
- CONSOLAN
- CONSOLCONSOLAN
- Constant-speed propeller
- CONTACT
- Contact Approach
- Contaminant
- Contaminated Runway
- Conterminous U.S.
- Continental United States
- Contingency Hazard Area (CHA)
- CONTINUE
- Continuous flow oxygen system
- Control and performance
- Control Area [ICAO]
- Control Display Unit
- Control pressures
- Control Sector
- Control Slash
- Controllability
- Controllable-pitch propeller (CPP)
- Controlled Airspace
- Controlled Airspace [ICAO]
- Controlled Firing Area.
- Controlled Time of Arrival (CTA)
- Controller
- Controller [ICAO]
- Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC)
- Convective SIGMET
- Convective SIGMET (WST)
- Convective weather
- Conventional landing gear
- Cooperative Surveillance
- Coordinated flight
- Coordinates
- Coordination Fix
- COPTER
- Coriolis illusion
- CORRECTION
- Coupled ailerons and rudder
- Coupled Approach
- Course
- Cowl flaps
- Crew resource management (CRM)
- Crewmember
- Crewmember - Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)
- Critical altitude
- Critical angle of attack
- Critical areas
- Critical engine
- CROSS (fix) AT (Altitude)
- CROSS (fix) AT OR ABOVE (altitude)
- CROSS (fix) At OR BELOW (altitude)
- Cross-check
- Crosswind
- Crosswind Component
- Cruise
- Cruise clearance
- Cruise Climb
- Cruising Altitude
- Cruising Level
- Cruising Level [ICAO]
- CT Message
- Current Flight Plan (CPL) [ICAO]
- Current induction
- CVFP Approach
- CWA