This glossary explains aviation-specific terminology and all abbreviations used on this website.
Terminology
- Compliance Tracking
- Continuous monitoring of whether qualifications, deadlines, and regulatory requirements are met, including timely alerts for expiring authorizations.
- Crew Management
- Planning and administration of flight and cabin crews: duty and roster planning, management of qualifications and licenses, and compliance with statutory flight duty and rest time limits.
- Dispatch
- Ground-based preparation and ongoing monitoring of flights: producing the operational flight plan, calculating fuel, evaluating weather and route information, and supporting the crew throughout the flight.
- Flight Operations
- An airline's operational flying activity: planning, conducting, and monitoring flights, including flight preparation, weather and route analysis, and operations control.
- Occurrence Reporting
- The standardized recording and reporting of safety-related events in flight operations to internal functions and the competent authorities; regulated in the EU by Regulation (EU) No 376/2014.
- Safety Compliance
- Adherence to aviation safety regulations and internal safety standards, typically within an operator's safety management system.
Abbreviations
- §
- Section sign (refers to a section of a German statute)
- Abs.
- Absatz (paragraph of a German statute)
- Art.
- Article
- B.A.
- Bachelor of Arts (academic degree)
- BDSG
- Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (German Federal Data Protection Act)
- BFSG
- Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (German Accessibility Strengthening Act)
- BITV
- Barrierefreie-Informationstechnik-Verordnung (German Accessible Information Technology Regulation)
- bzw.
- beziehungsweise (German: respectively, or)
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets (styling language for web pages)
- DDG
- Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz (German Digital Services Act)
- DSGVO
- Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (German name of the GDPR)
- EAA
- European Accessibility Act
- EU
- European Union
- GDPR
- General Data Protection Regulation
- GmbH
- Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (German limited liability company)
- HRB
- Handelsregister Abteilung B (Commercial Register Section B)
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language (markup language for web pages)
- IT
- Information Technology
- KPI
- Key Performance Indicator
- lit.
- litera (letter of an enumeration in legal texts)
- MStV
- Medienstaatsvertrag (German Interstate Media Treaty)
- no. / Nr.
- number / Nummer
- para.
- paragraph
- sog.
- sogenannt (German: so-called)
- TDDDG
- Telekommunikation-Digitale-Dienste-Datenschutz-Gesetz (German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act)
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator (web address)
- USt-IdNr.
- Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer (German VAT identification number)
- UStG
- Umsatzsteuergesetz (German VAT Act)
- UTC
- Coordinated Universal Time
- VAT
- Value Added Tax
- VSBG
- Verbraucherstreitbeilegungsgesetz (German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act)
- WCAG
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- z. B.
- zum Beispiel (German: for example)