Sentence examples for pilots abilities from inspiring English sources

Companies were introducing increasingly specialized automated functions to address particular errors without looking at their over-all effects, he said, when they should have been be making slow and careful innovations calibrated to pilots' abilities and needs.

In another study conducted as a collaboration between the Embry-Riddle Human FactoRagbir Neurobiology DepartMSnt (Nadine Ragbir, MS; lead author) and the College of Aviation (Dr. Scott Winter), researchers showed pictures of male and female licensed pilots—in uniform to participants (about half of whom were licensed pilots) and asked them to rate the pilots' abilities.

These gliding competitions test pilots' abilities to make best use of local weather conditions as well as their flying skills.

Emergency service helicopters have been inadequately equipped with night-vision systems, potentially interfering with pilots' ability to read instruments.

The pilots' ability to make complex cognitive decisions, however — what Casner calls their "manual thinking" skills — had suffered a palpable hit.

The sensors can be crucial to the pilots' ability to control an aircraft: A plane that flies too slowly can lose lift and crash, while one that is moving too fast can break up in the air.

Spurred on by the unforgiving conditions it has to cope with, the company adopted satellite navigation in place of radar early on, revolutionising pilots' ability to take off and land in harsh conditions, and to fly in between mountains.

An airplane chartered by the Obama campaign for a flight from Midway Airport in Chicago to Charlotte, N.C., made a precautionary landing in St . Louison Monday morning because of a mechanical problem that interfered with the pilots' ability to control the plane's pitch, said Midwest Airlines, the operator.

But experts say it is too early to determine whether the same problem that stymied the pilots' ability to control the Lion Air flight — a malfunctioning sensor coupled with an automated response from the aircraft's software — contributed to the downing of the Ethiopian Airlines plane.

Stormy weather over the southern Mediterranean Sea and Libyan coast hampered the air campaign late Saturday and early Sunday, forcing NATO to cancel some strikes on predetermined targets and hampering pilots' ability to confirm that other suspected targets were Libyan military equipment or weaponry.

In a review of helicopter accidents involving wire strikes, published in 2003 in the administration's safety magazine, FAAviation News, experts said that "pilots' ability to see wires is affected by dirty windscreens, light conditions, the obscuring effects of terrain and changes in visual perspective that occur during climb and descent".