The phrase "aircraft location" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to aviation, navigation, or logistics to refer to the specific position of an aircraft.
Example: "The air traffic controller provided the pilots with the current aircraft location to ensure safe landings."
Alternatives: "airplane position" or "plane location".
They are also finishing an improved license plate design, in the form of a tough box roughly the size and shape of a smartphone that packages together an LED license plate with a standard aircraft location beacon and a battery.
ADS-B determines aircraft location using satellite navigation and communicates it via satellite to control centers.
The crew was not aware that they could check the aircraft location in relation to the centerline with a VDF.
The station identification would be heard once or twice, possibly with different relative amplitudes, depending on the aircraft location.
Its solutions are used to sort out multiple radar detections, with uncertain causal relation to multiple aeroplanes, into a consistent and accurate estimate of the aircraft locations.
With GPS, an aircraft's location could be continually and precisely updated by triangulating data between the satellites and its location on Earth.
Radar systems generally give accurate readings of an aircraft's location, speed and direction without difficulty.
The sideways profile of the mountains, called vertical situation display, uses a similar concept, with the aircraft's location found by the Global Positioning System and applied to a database of the earth's surface.
When Air France flight 447 went down over the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, it took two years to recover the black boxes, despite having a good idea of the aircraft's location.
An article on Oct. 3 about the discovery of remains at the crash site of a plane flown by the millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett misidentified the device that signals an aircraft's location after a crash.
With these two basic reforms, in the case of MH370 air traffic control would have been alerted to a problem the instant the transponder was cut, and know the aircraft's location at every moment.Third, though this does not appear to have been a factor in MH370's disappearance, two Iranians on board had been travelling with passports that were registered as stolen with Interpol.
