The phrase "a competitive pilot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who participates in aviation competitions or has a strong desire to excel in flying.
Example: "After years of training, she finally became a competitive pilot, participating in various air races around the country."
Alternatives: "an aspiring aviator" or "a racing pilot."
During six years as a competitive pilot, Ms. Skelton set a series of women's records for light planes, among them reaching 29,050 feet in a Piper Cub at an airfield in Tampa, Fla., in 1951.
If you find applications your competition is successfully delivering, you might want to find a rich, powerful sponsor to underwrite a competitive pilot.
Following a very competitive piloting process, Patrick Holland, Controller, BBC Two and Kate Phillips, Controller, Entertainment Commissioning, today announce the commission of The Mash Report (w/t) from Princess Productions.
Among the small circle of competitive pilots, he was known as shy, even reclusive, alternately funny and fussy, with a savantlike knowledge of the sport.
It was the first of hundreds of flights that Betty Haas Pfister would make — dozens as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, during World War II, and many more as one of the nation's most successful female competitive pilots.
And, setting them apart from other competitive pilots, they flew unusually fast, which eats up altitude quicker, believing the increased risk of an early landing was offset by the extra gain in mileage.
Some competitive pilots fly in races around pre-defined courses.
The Bush administration created the home-visiting initiative, a $10 million competitive grant pilot program to help state and local governments invest in "quality assurance systems," train workers and establish programs with "strong fidelity to a proven effective model," in 2008.
Soaring is also a competitive sport in which pilots try to accomplish a set of given tasks in their gliders.
She is a physician, a pilot and a competitive horseback rider.
Confessing to a competitive streak, she was a pilot, champion balloonist, expert golfer, interior decorator and Cordon Bleu cook.
