The phrase 'practice flying' is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the act of honing and perfecting one's flying skills. For example, "Joe enrolled in a local flight school to practice flying in order to become a commercial pilot."
Plus we had a cool flight simulator station for people to practice flying (and crashing).
Students practice flying small drones at Mountain Empire Community College in Virginia.
The big amenity is an airstrip at Brookhaven Calabro Airport, where the college's aviation students practice flying small Warrior II planes.
On a recent Thursday, Kevin Ng, 24, a computer network administrator, watched his friends practice flying off curbs and worried that their stunts were not ready for prime time.
With allegations of cheap practice flying like left hooks around the Olympic boxing tournament, it took an Englishman and an Irishman to settle their legitimate sporting argument with admirable cordiality, Luke Campbell getting the better of John Joe Nevin to win Great Britain's 28th gold medal of the Games.
It is very funny when Emma is whirled about in a practice flying apparatus and it is affecting when in a closing sequence she leaves the family, of which she had so many years been the foster mother, to seek a new position.
Mills's Lakewood, Colo., mall, for example, has an ESPN X-Games Skatepark, a concept developed by Mills and ESPN; its Discover Mills near Atlanta features a Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World, where customers can practice fly fishing.
But Chinese pilots have never practiced flying in formations greater than 20 planes, and in general China's pilots receive far less training than those in Taiwan, which also has a greater number of top-line fighters.
Captain Creighton and the mission pilot, Col. John H. Casper of the Air Force, today practiced flying in a shuttle training aircraft while other crew members reviewed flight plans and other information for the mission.
Last year, practicing flying every day might have been enough to make you one of the best racers in the world.
After breeding this year, three young birds fledged successfully and are now practicing flying and hunting in the sky.
