GLOSSARY

AC Aircraft

ADS-B Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast

ASAS Airborne Separation Assurance System

ATC Air Traffic Control

ATCo Air Traffic Controller

ATM Air Traffic Management

BFD Baseline FreeFlight Display

CDTI Cockpit Display of Traffic Information

CF Controlled Flight (an experimental condition)

CNS Communication, Navigation and Surveillance

EFR Extended Flight Rules

EVOR Extended VFR Operating Rules

FDB Flight Data Block

FF Free Flight

FFI Free Flight with information sharing (experimental condition)

FFN Free Flight with no information sharing (experimental condition)

FL Flight Level

ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation

MTCA Medium Term Conflict Alert

NARSIM NLR ATC Research Simulator

NLR National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands

PVD Plan View Display

RSME Rating Scale for Mental Effort

SSR Secondary Surveillance Radar

STCA Short Term Conflict Alert

SUA Special Use Airspace

TCAS Traffic Collision Avoidance System

TCP Trajectory Change Point

TLX Task Load Index

VFR Visual Flight Rules

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