Sentence examples for contact pilot from inspiring English sources
John Dugger, the pilot, and Jorge Cano, the local contact pilot, reveal on their faces not the least touch of dismay, or even surprise, whatever they may feel.
On this latter point, I'm looking forward to working with ministerial colleagues in the Department for Education on the recently announced "single point of contact" pilot schemes in schools.
The pilots stand front and center, as trim and trig as pilots of the air — John Dugger, from Collierville, Tennessee (the ship's home port is Memphis), and Jorge Cano, a local "contact pilot," who is here to help the regular pilots sense the shoals of the Atchafalaya.
Clients who want to hire a pilot mark the location or area they want to get images of and FairFleet then contacts pilots in that area to provide a quote for the job.
Colleagues said he knew the topography, the roads and the trail networks thoroughly; charted all missions, enemy encounters and weather patterns in grease pencil on glass-covered seven-foot maps; could contact any pilot in Southeast Asia within one minute; and tenaciously pursued search-and-rescue missions for downed pilots, sometimes pacing all night in his combat center awaiting word.
The executives promptly tried to contact the pilot.
Air traffic controllers at La Guardia tried to contact the pilot, but were unsuccessful, Mr. Peters said.
Flight controllers tried to contact the pilot several times, to no avail, Mr. Peters said.
Air traffic controllers were last able to contact the pilot of the Glazers' plane at 10 am, about 75 minutes after it took off from the Greater Rochester International Airport.
Just before losing contact, the pilot told air traffic control he was approaching threatening clouds, but was denied permission to climb to a higher altitude because of heavy air traffic.
An Egyptian official with the government's Aviation Incidents Committeel, Ayman al-Muqadem, said that before losing contact the pilot had radioed that the plane was experiencing technical problems and that he intended to try and land at the nearest airport.
