vital actions

vital actions

Actions that must be carried out in the interest of safety and proper aircraft operation. These may either be specific to the type of aircraft (more often than not) or a part of general airmanship. The most common vital actions occur before takeoff and during the downwind leg in the traffic pattern.
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25) This description sounds as if vital actions were just the same as immanent actions.
This twofold meaning of immanence results in a problem when trying to identify immanence with life, (28) just as the initial description of vital actions suggested.
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Vital actions are disinguished from nonvital actions because the former have more perfect principles and terms.
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