Sentence examples for portion of a flight from inspiring English sources

During this long-haul portion of a flight, a pilot is much more concerned with monitoring aircraft status than looking around for nearby planes.

But that is very rare during the cruising portion of a flight and would not explain the lack of debris on the sea surface.

When things turn south, and he begins to scream and protest about sitting for a long time, usually around the last portion of a flight, we give him squeezes with a pillow we bring.

Validation can be looked at in detail over any portion of a flight trajectory (e.g. minute by minute) such that a statistically significant number of comparisons can be made.

Typically, that results in crew members rotating between two sets of shoes: a snappy-looking pair to wear in the terminal, where appearing polished is a job requirement, and a more sensible, affordable pair that they change into for the service portion of a flight.

Establishing an accurate mechanism for estimating the cost of a delays for each portion of a flight (gate costs, taxiing in and out costs, and en-route costs) is useful for many aspects of modeling airline behavior and for better understanding the likely impact of regulations.

This week the Federal Communications Commission encouraged the Federal Aviation Authority to allow electronic devices to be used during all portions of a flight.

They still account for only a tiny portion of all flights, and very few of the errors put passengers at risk.

This research addresses a particular portion of the flight of an aircraft (whether autonomous, unmanned, or manned): specifically, the recapture of the glide slope after a wave-off maneuver during landing.

To file a composite flight plan (a portion of the flight VFR and IFR) check both boxes.

The plane had reached a height of approximately 31,000 feet (9,500 metres) and was preparing for the oceanic portion of the flight when a timer-activated bomb detonated.