What is "pipper"

Usage examples of "pipper".

Buntz settled his pipper on the nearest target of the eastern element, locked the stabilizer, and rolled his foot forward on the firing pedal.

The square of his targeting pipper slowly tracked across the HUD until it closed with the target.

The pipper on his HUD crawled across one of the target symbols, then flashed ACQ as the warble sounded over his headset.

As he said it, for the first time since his bolters the night before, Tombstone pictured himself going up again, pictured himself once more bringing the HUD pipper into line with an enemy MiG.

A glance back at his VDI showed the targeting pipper almost on the target.

Shaw jinked left, then right, his eyes fixed now on the pipper crawling toward the target graphic on his screen.

He concentrated on the targeting pipper on his HUD, hauling the stick over as he lined up on the lead Fantan, now three miles ahead.

Centering the targeting pipper on his tactical screen over one of the blips marking an enemy aircraft, he acquired a lock.

Keeping the steering bug lined up with the nav pipper on the screen, Sluf brought the A6 precisely into line with the still-unseen target.

A tone sounded in his ear and the targeting pipper flashed from its diamond shape to a circle.

He kept the steering pipper on the target, which his electronics had pegged as the source of several different radar emissions.

His targeting pipper slid across his HUD, centering on the distant aircraft.

I let the sight pipper ride through the target area to compensate for the g-forces of the turn, then fired another rocket.

He noticed several dark openings among the trees and with a little wiggle of the controls put the pipper on his sight directly on one of them.

Jake put the pipper in the heads-up display on the plane, and got a rattling tone in his ears, the locked-on signal from the heat-seeking Sidewinder that had given the missile its name.