How to Use flight plan in a Sentence
flight plan
noun- The pilot filed a flight plan before taking off.
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The spacewalk is the second of three major goals for the five-day flight plan.
— Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024 -
The markets may see the dangers of the Fed’s flight plan better than the Fed itself.
— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023 -
What differs in the flight plan this time involves the attempts to steer the booster and ship back to Earth.
— Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024 -
All the Enemy of the State crew had to do was file a flight plan and call it a photo mission.
— Arthur Holland Michel, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2019 -
But that still wasn’t a flight plan — or even a playbook — to help navigate the challenges of the last year.
— Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2021 -
Create your flight plan and fly anywhere on the planet.
— Andrew Webster, The Verge, 9 June 2019 -
Bombing runs are preprogrammed events, all part of the flight plan.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018 -
Weather, tech and more:These 3 things could wreck your summer flight plans.
— Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2023 -
The unscheduled flight had just been added to the flight plan the previous Friday.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2019 -
Shannon had filed a flight plan to fly Sunday from Bartow to Key West.
— Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 24 Dec. 2017 -
The 45-year-old pilot, Mark Davies, and his wife, Janet, did not file a flight plan before taking off.
— Travis Fedschun, Fox News, 16 July 2018 -
This includes flight plan luggage and how long the spray will be left in a vehicle.
— Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 20 Sep. 2023 -
Airlines will have to reroute or divert flight plans to comply.
— Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020 -
That’s the wrong direction of the flight plan, bolstering the report’s claim that the pilots tried to turn the aircraft back to the airport.
— Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020 -
With a minute to go in the first-half, Konate came flying towards the basket, but Bane took off and stuck to a flight plan that targeted the front of the rim.
— Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 25 Jan. 2018 -
Brekke said the pilot had first called in a flight plan listing eight passengers.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021 -
The Starliner has two test flights planned for later this year — one with crew aboard and one without.
— Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, 19 June 2019 -
Controllers can transmit flight plans to the craft, but Mars is too far from Earth for direct guidance.
— George Petras, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024 -
The flight plan calls for Peregrine to touch down after local sunrise at the landing site.
— IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2023 -
Even with the flight plans filed, a negotiation with the tanker crew ensues across the radio.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018 -
In this last case, with a ruggedized laptop, a ground controller can upload the mission flight plan to the drone prior to launch.
— Allison Barrie, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018 -
The flight plan, while potentially large in scale, hinges on how Haitians respond.
— Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2021 -
The flights planned from Florida in 2019 will change the way the world approaches human spaceflight.
— Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 4 Jan. 2019 -
The former fighter pilot already had a flight plan: bombs away.
— Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2020 -
The flight plan for the rocket, which combines a spacecraft atop the Super Heavy rocket booster, is to reach about 150 miles above Earth.
— Julia Malleck, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2023 -
John didn’t register his flight plan, which made the search all the more complicated.
— Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 10 July 2024 -
And unexpected changes to the flight plan can ruin your travel plans.
— Melanie Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2023 -
In the last 10 days more than 50 jetliners have filed final flight plans to the converted World War II training base.
— John D'anna, azcentral, 17 May 2020 -
In order to make every line sting, Aniello mapped out the fight’s flight plan to match the unraveling of their friendship.
— Meredith Woerner, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
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