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instrument flying

n. navigation of an airplane solely by instruments

Usage examples of "instrument flying".

Jake's attention was divided among the mechanics of instrument flying, the computer-driven steering symbol on the VDI, and the occasional streams of yellow and red tracers.

Then came more demanding levels, one after the other, formation flying, instrument flying, jet training, all-weather flying, gunnery, and at each level more were washed out and left behind.

Since the trainees were already experi-1 pilots with many years of flying behind them, the was devised to serve two purposes: the first was him through such subjects as navigation, radio, com-tion, map reading and instrument flying to re-the memories of the men and pinpoint their po-weaknesses, and the second was to familiarize him with the new equipment they would be using, him instrument flying was done in a Link Trainer, a .

Here and there, we bored through belts of opaque mist, forcing us into some tricky instrument flying a few irals above the ground—.

Here and there, we bored through belts of opaque mist, forcing us into some tricky instrument flying a few irals above the groundwhich, of course, we could not see.

Not because you couldn't fly, but because we have no radio navigation aids to guide us to landing and because they aren't really equipped for instrument flying.