Aeronautical Terms beginning with Z

Z

Zulu Time. Another term used to designate Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the standard time common to every place in the world. Formerly and still widely called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and also World Time, UTC nominally reflects the mean solar time along the Earth´s prime meridian.

Zone of confusion

Volume of space above the station where a lack of adequate navigation signal directly above the VOR station causes the needle to deviate.

Zulu time

A term used in aviation for coordinated universal time (UTC) which places the entire world on one time standard.