---
title: "DELAY COUNTDOWN TIMER (DCT) — aviation glossary — OnlyPlanes"
description: "The display of the delay that must be absorbed by a flight prior to crossing a Meter Reference Element (MRE) to meet the TBFM Scheduled Time of Arrival (STA)."
canonical_url: "https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/delay-countdown-timer-dct"
locale: en
meta:
  keywords: "DELAY COUNTDOWN TIMER (DCT), DELAY COUNTDOWN TIMER (DCT), DCT"
  "og:description": "The display of the delay that must be absorbed by a flight prior to crossing a Meter Reference Element (MRE) to meet the TBFM Scheduled Time of Arrival (STA)."
  "og:image": "https://onlyplanes.ru/images/aviation/aircraft/boeing-787.webp"
  "og:title": "DELAY COUNTDOWN TIMER (DCT) — aviation glossary"
---

> Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://onlyplanes.ru/llms.txt)

Operations

# DELAY COUNTDOWN TIMER (DCT)

DCT

TERM · Operations

At a glance

## Meaning of DELAY COUNTDOWN TIMER (DCT)

The display of the delay that must be absorbed by a flight prior to crossing a Meter Reference Element (MRE) to meet the TBFM Scheduled Time of Arrival (STA).

### More about DELAY COUNTDOWN TIMER (DCT)

The display of the delay that must be absorbed by a flight prior to crossing a Meter Reference Element (MRE) to meet the TBFM Scheduled Time of Arrival (STA). It is calculated by taking the difference between the frozen STA and the Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA).

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DefinedTerm","@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/delay-countdown-timer-dct#term","name":"DELAY COUNTDOWN TIMER (DCT)","alternateName":["DELAY COUNTDOWN TIMER (DCT)","DCT"],"description":"The display of the delay that must be absorbed by a flight prior to crossing a Meter Reference Element (MRE) to meet the TBFM Scheduled Time of Arrival (STA).","inDefinedTermSet":{"@type":"DefinedTermSet","@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn#glossary","name":"OnlyPlanes aviation glossary"},"url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/delay-countdown-timer-dct"}
```

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#website","@type":"WebSite","description":"News, stories and rare images from the world of aviation","inLanguage":"en-GB","name":"OnlyPlanes","url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en","publisher":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#identity"},"translationOfWork":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#website"}},{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/delay-countdown-timer-dct#webpage","@type":"WebPage","description":"The display of the delay that must be absorbed by a flight prior to crossing a Meter Reference Element (MRE) to meet the TBFM Scheduled Time of Arrival (STA).","name":"DELAY COUNTDOWN TIMER (DCT) — aviation glossary","url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/delay-countdown-timer-dct","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#website"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://onlyplanes.ru/learn/delay-countdown-timer-dct"]}],"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#logo"}},{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#identity","@type":"Organization","name":"OnlyPlanes","url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en","logo":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#logo"},"sameAs":["https://t.me/legkoenebo"]},{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#logo","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"OnlyPlanes","contentUrl":"https://onlyplanes.ru/search-logo.png","inLanguage":"en-GB","url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/search-logo.png"}]}
```

## Sitemap

See the full [sitemap](https://onlyplanes.ru/sitemap.md) for all pages.