Sentence examples for pilots checked from inspiring English sources

They leveled at 16,000 feet, while the pilots checked through their weapons.

Outfitted as usual in a white shirt and necktie and smoking a cigarette, Mr. Bernhard listened through his headset as one of the United pilots checked in with the airport for the first and only time.

Those include requiring fingerprint-based background checks on pilots, checking passenger names against a government watch list and restricting what items may be carried onto the airplane.

When a bird strike occurs — and all told, the airport had 52 in the last year, with only 14 of those in the actual airspace over the airport — the pilots check their altitude and position.

HEADS-UP technology, which lets fighter pilots check instruments without taking their eyes off targets, began making its way into cars more than a decade ago, with the speedometer and other readouts projected onto the windshield in the driver's line of vision.

Transcripts show the pilots checking in with controllers about 12 minutes before that time and then confirming coordinates seconds before communications ended.

Now you'll know what happens when your flight takes off into the heart of a thunderstorm because your pilot checked SimpleWeather on the runway.

There is a shortage of pilots, check-pilots, instructors, examiners and cabin crew, and no deputy chief of flight safety.

According to officials familiar with current procedure, the F.A.A. checks daily for changes to the Transportation Security Administration's No-Fly List and Selectee Flight List, and matches that against the list of licensed pilots; and once a week, the names of new student pilots are checked against those lists.

The Clintons -- she is a freelance artist, he is an Air Force pilot -- checked with the airline at 6 a.m.

The plane, a sleek new Embraer ERJ 135, waited just outside the terminal as the pilot himself checked the identifications and carry-on bags of the four passengers.