How to Use flight plan in a Sentence

flight plan

noun
  • The pilot filed a flight plan before taking off.
  • 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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