Sentence examples for manually flying from inspiring English sources

And of the tiny number of hours spent manually flying the plane, almost all would have been spent taking off or landing.

A 2011 study by a federal task force found that in about 60percentt of 46 recent accidents, pilots had trouble manually flying the plane or handling the automated controls.

"That's manually flying it, actually turning the control wheel, flying it through the autopilot, or by pre-programming a route into the navigation computer.

Unsurprisingly, plenty in the industry want more hands-on training for pilots. "A few years ago the airlines used to get more crew from the military and those guys were used to manually flying aircraft right on the edge", David Learmount tells me.

All three crewmembers of expedition EO-23 performed a "fly-around" in the Soyuz spacecraft, first undocking from one docking port of the station, then manually flying to and redocking the capsule at a different location.

Next, they are told, disengage the auto throttle and manually fly the plane.

Few Warthog pilots attempt to manually fly their planes and few survive.

Graduates include the second American in space, Gus Grissom, and the only person to manually fly the Space Shuttle (or any vehicle at all) from Mach 25 to landing, Joe Engle.

If you ignore your low battery warning or manually fly the Solo into a tree, you are obviously on your own, but having this kind of support — as well as a 30-day money-back guarantee — is something new in the world of consumer drones.

If you ignore your low battery warning or manually fly the Solo into a tree, you  are obviously on your own, but having this kind of support — as well as a 30-day money-back guarantee — is something new in the world of consumer drones.

"I took it over manually and flew it like a helicopter out to the west direction, took it to a smoother area without so many rocks and found a level area and was able to get it down there before we ran out of fuel.