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flight director

flight director noun: a system of a narrow horizontal and vertical bar overlaid on an aircraft's attitude indicator, with the bars deflecting to provide guidance as to the pitch and roll inputs required to maintain the desired flightpath.

Noun

flight director (plural flight directors)

  1. A system of a narrow horizontal and vertical bar overlaid on an aircraft's attitude indicator, with the bars deflecting to provide guidance as to the pitch and roll inputs required to maintain the desired flightpath.
  2. (space flight) A senior ground controller.

Forms of flight director

pluralflight directors

Questions about flight director

What does flight director mean?
Flight director means a system of a narrow horizontal and vertical bar overlaid on an aircraft's attitude indicator, with the bars deflecting to provide guidance as to the pitch and roll inputs required to maintain the desired flightpath.
What part of speech is flight director?
Flight director is a noun.
What is the plural of flight director?
The plural of flight director is flight directors.

Words near flight director in the dictionary

  1. flight crews
  2. flight data recorder
  3. flight data recorders
  4. flight deck
  5. flight decks
  6. flight director
  7. flight directors
  8. flight dispatcher
  9. flight engineer
  10. flight engineers
  11. flight envelope

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