Sentence examples for cockpit use from inspiring English sources
Brabants explains the difference: kayakers sit in a closed cockpit, use a rudder and a double-ended paddle; canoeists race kneeling on one knee in an open cockpit with a single ended paddle and they are rudderless.
A federal prosecutor told family members that he believed the passengers broke into the cockpit using a food cart as a battering ram.
"The cockpit used to be like a room full of rattlesnakes that pilots had to deal with, like so many threats," says Sean Ellis, a captain who until last year was Alaska Airlines' chief pilot for the state.
The A380 has an improved glass cockpit, using fly-by-wire flight controls linked to side-sticks.
A display in the cockpit uses green, amber and red LEDs to display the state of the battery charge.
A few minutes after landing in Geneva, the co-pilot exited the cockpit using a rope, "then he went to the police forces who were on the ground close to the aircraft," Geneva police spokesman Eric Grandjean said.
Aircraft cockpits use an array of gauges and dials that pilots read one by one but must understand collectively.
The research firm estimates that "The mobile-office application market in North America may reach $6.85 billion in 2015, up from an estimated $1.76 billion [in 2010]." Since March 2011, the US Federal Aviation Administration has approved the iPad for in-cockpit use to cut down on the paper consumption in several airlines.
Peugeot's new i-cockpit uses a large display screen as the instrument panel and has bright, sharp graphics that lend a luxury feel to the interior.
Captain Osbon evidently became enraged at that and abruptly left the cockpit to use the lavatory — ignoring security procedures for alerting the crew when the fortified cockpit door is open and vulnerable.
The specific glass cockpit display used in this study was subjectively appealing but yielded poorer flight performance in participants with no previous flight experience than a traditional display.
