The phrase "able to operate a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone's capability or skill in using a specific tool, machine, or system.
Example: "She is able to operate a forklift safely and efficiently."
Alternatives: "capable of using a" or "skilled in operating a".
But you can be a good American and not be able to operate a motor vehicle.
With the brain-muscle connection reëstablished, Sullivan was eventually able to operate a myoelectric prosthesis using nothing other than intuition.
The likelihood of someone who can't find their way home being able to operate a smartphone isn't mentioned in its spiel.
On the national plane, hardly any country is able to operate a free market system in so basic a commodity as grain.
"It takes a very special, a very careful, a very, very civic- and community-minded person to be able to operate a liquor license establishment in that kind of residential neighborhood," Mr. Duane said.
It had to be easy enough for anyone to use, even for those people who would not be able to operate a standard mobile phone," said Chris Etchells, co-founder of KMS talking to the Guardian at CES.
Ultimately for Britain to be able to operate an embassy in Tehran again, we would have to know that the embassy could perform all the normal functions of an embassy without harassment and difficulties that it had to face before".
In addition to being able to operate an air taxi service and land air ambulances, locals hoped that the construction would be a first step to becoming part of the state-financed construction of regional airports in Finnmark.
In addition, the control system must be able to operate over a wide range of temperatures, a requirement for in-flight vibration suppression systems.
The system will be able to operate as a photoelectron emission microscope (PEEM), an X-ray photoemission electron microscope (XPEEM), or a secondary electron emission microscope (SEEM).
The JSM-7600F operates with the use of a T-FE electron gun and sem-in-lens objective lens in its electron optics system and a robust structure is able to operate in a broad range of installation environments.
