Sentence examples for cockpit using from inspiring English sources

A federal prosecutor told family members that he believed the passengers broke into the cockpit using a food cart as a battering ram.

The A380 has an improved glass cockpit, using fly-by-wire flight controls linked to side-sticks.

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.

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.

"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.

A display in the cockpit uses green, amber and red LEDs to display the state of the battery charge.

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.

The desultory pace of a largely uneventful day quickened significantly at 10 45 p.m. when four hostages slipped out of the darkened windows of the cockpit and, using an emergency rope ladder, leapt to the tarmac and ran to a hangar where police officers were stationed.

Aircraft manufacturers also simulate bird strikes at cockpits, also using the gun to propel birds onto a windshield, to ensure that it won't break the plane's windows or change the way it flies.

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.

Its third product, the A320 (1988), was the first subsonic commercial aircraft to be designed with fly-by-wire (electric rather than mechanical) primary controls and the first commercial aircraft to feature the so-called glass cockpit, which used electronic rather than mechanical displays.