Sentence examples for cruising height from inspiring English sources

They set the autopilot and the plane computer to reach cruising height and head for a Greek radio beacon.

A lesser used parameter is the gross still air range; a theoretical range at cruising height between airfields.

Nearly 3,000 smoke events were noted, of which 1,701 occurred mid-flight, mostly when the aircraft was at cruising height.

Last moments of the plane Speaking in Cologne, Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann revealed that the plane began descending shortly after it reached cruising height following take-off from Barcelona airport.

At cruising height, usually around 35,000 feet, cabin pressure in most aircraft is kept at the equivalent of around 8,200 feet (about the same as Mexico City) because maintaining a higher pressure in a conventional aircraft might accelerate metal fatigue.

Before the Malaysian plane was shot down, rebels had boasted of obtaining the BUK missiles, which can shoot down airliners at cruising height.

At the same time, an analysis of the variation in wind speed of the jet stream found that when seasonal differences were taken into account – the jet stream is a little stronger in winter than in summer – the jet stream experienced a noticeable increase in variation at the cruising heights of airlines during the same period.

That's about the same pressure as Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of 32 kilometers or about 2.5 times the cruising heights of jet aircraft, Osczevski says.

Not stratospheric heights, but around the cruising altitude of passenger jets.

Then, at cruising altitude, a counterintuitive kind of vertigo – predicated not on height but on the dizzying sense that the line between safety and terror is so very fine.

The aeroplane left cruise height "as a result of an intentional manoeuvre requiring sustained manual flight control inputs that were most likely performed by the captain", the US report concluded.