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WAKE TURBULENCE

Pilot/Controller Glossary with JO 7110.65BB, Change 3, effective July 9, 2026 · Official text on faa.gov

A phenomenon that occurs when an aircraft develops lift and forms a pair of counter‐rotating vortices.

See AIRCRAFT CLASSES; AIRCRAFT WAKE CATEGORIES; VORTICES.

Refer to AIM.

In the 7110.65

Used in 29 paragraphs of JO 7110.65BB.

  1. 1-2-5Annotations
  2. 2-1-19Wake Turbulence
  3. 2-1-20Wake Turbulence Cautionary Advisories
  4. 3-8-3Simultaneous Same Direction Operation
  5. 3-9-6Same Runway Separation
  6. 3-9-7Wake Turbulence Separation for Intersection Departures
  7. 3-9-8Intersecting Runway/Intersecting Flight Path Operations
  8. 3-9-9Nonintersecting Converging Runway Operations
  9. 3-10-3Same Runway Separation
  10. 3-10-4Intersecting Runway/Intersecting Flight Path Operations
  11. 3-11-1Taxi and Ground Movement Operation
  12. 5-5-4Minima
  13. 5-5-7Passing or Diverging
  14. 5-5-8Additional Separation for Formation Flights
  15. 5-8-3Successive or Simultaneous Departures
  16. 5-8-5Departures and Arrivals on Parallel or Nonintersecting Diverging Runways
  17. 5-9-9Simultaneous Offset Instrument Approaches (SOIA)
  18. 5-9-11Transitional Procedure
  19. 6-1-4Adjacent Airport Operation
  20. 6-1-5Arrival Minima
  21. 6-7-5Interval Minima
  22. 7-2-1Visual Separation
  23. 7-4-3Clearance for Visual Approach
  24. 7-4-4Approaches to Multiple Runways
  25. 7-6-7Sequencing
  26. 7-7-3Separation
  27. 7-8-3Separation
  28. 7-9-4Separation
  29. 10-1-6Airport Ground Emergency