sky pilot

The Air Force has about seven pilots for every eight drone pilot slots, in other words.

Investigators will focus on whether the sudden emergency was so extreme that no degree of pilot skill would have helped.

At such a moment, the pilot has no resources other than his own instincts and experience.

By 2011, Airbus was working on a program to replicate these conditions in a flight simulator for use in pilot training.

The “pilot flying” was more probably the far less experienced copilot.

It was the darkest hour of twilight, when there was just enough of gleam from the lurid sky, to shew the outline of objects.

He had seen through a powerful naval glass some figures standing erect and silhouetted against the sky on the parapet.

If it should ever be my lot to take the Long Trail at short notice, I hope it will be under a blue sky and a blazing sun.

The storm, however, was over; the moon and stars were shining in a clear sky, and the aurora was dancing merrily.

We stumbled along, close up, for the thick-piled clouds still hung their light-obscuring banners over the sky.