Sentence examples for practice flights from inspiring English sources

Some of the pilots took practice flights on small rented aircraft, and the muscle hijackers trained at gyms.

"We have already exported 60percentt of our practice flights to respond to local concerns," he concedes.

Fitted with bracelets that attached him to a 200-foot safety tether, he went on daily practice flights until he could fly safely on his own.

The nestlings don't get any practice flights — once they leave they usually fly continually, even while asleep, until it's time to breed — so they have to get their weight right the first time.

By February, the two had moved to Georgia, where they took some practice flights with an instructor in a single-engine plane they rented at Briscoe Field, near Lawrenceville.

As many as a dozen suspected hijackers lived in South Florida in the months before the attacks, residing in hotels and apartments and, in some cases, making practice flights.

What is significant is that this was a useful mission, Mr Musk noted, not merely a practice flight.

Mr. Saracini beamed, too, when his daughters did practice flight plans with him, or learned to read a compass.

Aj was training to be an RAF pilot and was on a routine practice flight when his plane crashed.

Eric M. Shontz, hopped on an elliptical machine for 10 minutes before a practice flight at Beale to help dispel the nitrogen faster.

The union that represents German pilots objected to the arrangement, saying they are still worried about safety and that in practice flight captains have little choice but to fly.