flight plan

noun

: a usually written statement (as by a pilot) of the details of an intended flight (as of an airplane or spacecraft) usually filed with an authority

Examples of flight plan in a Sentence

The pilot filed a flight plan before taking off.

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The schedule for the Artemis III lunar landing in 2026 seems completely unrealistic, which has prompted NASA officials to consider revamping the flight plan for Artemis III to have an Orion crew capsule dock with Starship in low-Earth orbit. —

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024 Related article The weather most likely to ruin your flight plans The storm’s exact track is still unclear and will dictate which areas receive holiday snow and which areas end up with a wet, dreary mess. —

Mary Gilbert, CNN, 26 Nov. 2024 The flight plan called for the Super Heavy to fly back to its launch pad for capture by a giant set of mechanical arms. —

William Harwood, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2024 But this time around, the license covered multiple test flights using roughly the same flight plan. —

William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for flight plan