as well as the general public. Advisory Circulars are intended to be informative in nature andnotregulatory; however, many times they describe actions or advice that the FAA expects to be implemented or followed.
The "Damage" term was prevalent in military circles, but has since been pre-empted by a definition of FOD that looks at the "debris". This shift was made "official" in the latest FAA Advisory Circulars FAA A/C 150/5220-24 'Airport Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Detection Equipment' (2009...