flight plan

noun

an oral or written report to an air traffic control facility describing the route of a projected flight.

flight plan

First recorded in 1935–40

Did the airline file a flight plan that took account of the weather en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore?

In 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.

Five minutes later they were both in the air, but instead of flying out to sea, they carried out a prearranged flight plan.

He filed a flight plan that would return him to his home, and in due course arrived there.

Accordingly, in that period it was shown incorrectly on any computer print-outs of the flight plan.

This information forms the basis for the data required to produce the computerised flight plan.

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