Sentence examples for off the controls from inspiring English sources

Over the course of eight hours on a late February day in 2009, for example, five different crews passed off the controls of a Predator drone, one to the next, as it flew over Iraq.

But how about if the pilot hands off the controls to the passenger for a few seconds during the flight?

He took his hands off the controls like a bronco rider, swaying, and put his fists up — whoop, whoop.

As the car started to fall, he took his hands off the controls in a paroxysm of joy and shouted, "Strap on your safety belt, Mrs. Gadshill!

"If you take your hands off the controls it just comes immediately to a hover.

And, with more than 250 programmable button options integrated into a fully featured HOTAS (or Hands On Throttle-and-Stick) design, you're able to access critical aircraft systems without taking your hands off the controls.

Afterward, the other producers cheer as Goldberg scoops money off the control-room floor.

The idea is to modify or turn off the control at an equilibrium state and study the resulting behavior.

To trap the pulse, researchers turn off the control beam, which causes the pulse to imprint itself on the atoms.

In the case of reducing bandwidth or length of transmission, it should be possible to turn off the control channel transmissions on the unused RBs.

And when the car ignition is turned off, the control panel retracts, replaced by a plain black panel that covers the whole package.