'steer a plane' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of operating an aircraft. For example: "The pilot had to carefully steer the plane around the turbulence."
This paper studies a stochastic extremum seeking method to steer a nonholonomic vehicle to the unknown source of a spatial field in a plane.
NO BIRD, NO PLANE, JUST ANOTHER 'SUPERMAN' DIRECTOR -- Bryan Singer has become the latest director to sign on to steer a new Superman movie through production.
"Steer a little to the right.
What is the leadership necessary to steer a quality program?
The pilots were both unhurt in the incident and managed to steer the plane to a nearby beach where they performed minor repairs on the aircraft.
He was there, in the cockpit, on the Sunday afternoon in the mid-1970's when George W. Bush last took a plane into the air, steered a wobbly and uncertain course over Midland, Tex., nearly bungled the landing and seemed to realize that his high-flying days were forever past.
One passenger, it emerges, is a qualified pilot, while another spent years as an air-traffic controller; they are nominated to try to steer the plane to safety should the rebellion succeed.
He was reportedly keen to know how to steer the plane, but not how to take off or land.
Turning off autopilot is hard to do, and you'll find those muscles that steer the plane have atrophied.
"If it had fallen on Gonesse, it would have been an unbelievable disaster," said Mr. Corenthin, echoing the view of several local residents who felt that the pilot may have been trying to steer the plane away from the town.
