flight plan
an oral or written report to an air traffic control facility describing the route of a projected flight.
Origin of flight plan
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How to use flight plan in a sentence
Did the airline file a flight plan that took account of the weather en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore?
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501 | Clive Irving | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIn compliance with the flight plan, the 777 was at 33,000 feet.
There are two ways of making a radical change of flight plan like that.
The rocket was dipping toward earth again, in accordance with the landing flight plan.
The Scarlet Lake Mystery | Harold Leland GoodwinFive minutes later they were both in the air, but instead of flying out to sea, they carried out a prearranged flight plan.
Dave Dawson at Casablanca | Robert Sydney Bowen
He filed a flight plan that would return him to his home, and in due course arrived there.
Waste Not, Want | Dave DryfoosAccordingly, in that period it was shown incorrectly on any computer print-outs of the flight plan.
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster | Sir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward SomersThis information forms the basis for the data required to produce the computerised flight plan.
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster | Sir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
British Dictionary definitions for flight plan
a written statement of the details of a proposed aircraft flight
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