Sentence examples for pilots checking from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Finish the process by hammering in nails at the pilot holes, checking all the while that the jamb is still straight and level.

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.

At La Guardia Airport in New York, US Airways allows passengers to use Palm Pilots to check in.