"pilot attempt" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a trial or test of something, such as a new program or system. For example, "The firm will be conducting a pilot attempt of the new technology this week."
He expended all his ammunition and watched the Italian pilot attempt a crash-landing, only for the bomber to hit a tree and disintegrate 15 miles north of Kelcyre.
Being easily obtainable, 2706G and 7028C melt-peak information was utilized in a pilot attempt to quantify mixture ratios [37].
The present study represents our pilot attempt to quantify the clinical impact of simulation-based teaching in home-dialysis training from a patient perspective.
A pilot attempting a soft landing would have extended the wing flaps.
In a dive recovery maneuver, the pilot attempts to return the aircraft to level flight at an airspeed such that level flight can be maintained afterward.
In June of last year, a pilot attempting to land at the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport said a drone came within about 82 feet of the plane.
In November 1996, an Ethiopian airlines 767 crashed in the sea off the Comoros Islands, in the Indian ocean, killing 125 people on board after the pilot attempted to land while being hijacked.
In its articles, Paris Match and Bild described the sound of screaming passengers and that of metallic banging, possibly that of the pilot attempting to open the cockpit door with a heavy object.
A clergyman's daughter (energetically portrayed by Maxine Peake), having abandoned her lawyer husband and comfortable life for the love of a feckless former fighter pilot, attempts suicide because she cannot cope with the complexity of this socially unacceptable and unsatisfactorily reciprocated love.
There had been speculation that the pilot attempted to land in bad weather under instruction from the president; the investigation provided no direct evidence for this claim.A sawing achievementIn what was billed as the biggest commercial forest-preservation agreement in history, environmental advocates and timber companies struck a deal to protect 72m hectares of forests in Canada.
A DC-9 aircraft carrying 53 persons crashed and broke apart in a field, apparently as the pilot attempted to make a crash landing in a nearby swamp; a nine-year-old girl, who was pushed out of the plane by her mother and landed on a soft pile of seaweed some 9 m (30 ft) from the wreckage, was the only survivor.
