Sentence examples for pilot skill from inspiring English sources

Although suit design was important, much relied on pilot skill.

The competition this year is even more intense as all 12 pilots are using a standardised engine and propeller, intensifying the focus on pilot skill and precision flying.

The technology doesn't entirely replace pilot skill, and the airline maintains a rigorous training program, including an Arctic certification that takes six to seven years to complete.

Like most sports on TV, the DRL championship combined an actual sporting event with entertainment, but the level of pilot skill was stratospheric, impossible to fake.

The trials, conducted at the Stanford Aviation Safety Laboratory, focused on how the various drugs affected pilot skill in a flight simulator.

Pilot skill matters, but even so, a lot of the guesswork has been taken out of flying, says Kenny Williams, an Alaska Airlines pilot who helped devise another system that provides a real-time picture of wind patterns around the Juneau airport.

Lovelace was close friends with Jacqueline Cochran, whose pilot skills had propelled her to fame in the 1930s.

Had they used traditional pilot skills the aircraft [would have been] controllable, but once it was in a rapid dive it was difficult.

Because Air Force culture centres on pilot skills; Army culture centres on deployment to war.

These accidents, called into question cockpit automation, effective cockpit communication and, like Colgan, the deterioration of basic pilot skills.

These Wildesau ("wild boar") tactics were highly successful at first, but they demanded a high level of piloting skill, and the difficulty of returning safely to base in adverse winter weather forced their abandonment.