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The unit of United Continental Holdings Inc. discovered during a maintenance audit that it hadn't properly complied with steps required by the Federal Aviation Adminitration in checking the work on those computers, which take air speed, air pressure and other parameters in flight and input them into the auto-pilot system and other critical cockpit functions.

United Air Operations Back to Normal Susan Carey 2011

This is a critical inquiry, for if you are asleep at the wheel today with your life on auto-pilot, following the old road-maps and attempting to stay only on the well traveled paths, when life throws a curve ball, you'll be unprepared to make the adjustments necessary to avoid going off the road completely and end up in the ditch or worse.

Dr. Judith Rich: What Kind of Future Are You Creating Today? Dr. Judith Rich 2010

Many of us don't take the time to check-in with ourselves; instead we operate on auto-pilot, choosing the same guys, friends, jobs, meals that we've been choosing for years.

Ginger Emas: Ghosts of Relationships Past Ginger Emas 2011

Ceely himself is in the record books as the man who flew the first ever trans-continental auto-pilot flight.

Binky Philips: How About a Spin Around Daytona Speedway, Hoss? Binky Philips 2011

Although it makes sense to give at least as much to a democratizing Egypt as we did to an authoritarian one, this is not the time for policy on auto-pilot.

Why Egypt has to be the U.S. priority in the Middle East 2011

Many of us don't take the time to check-in with ourselves; instead we operate on auto-pilot, choosing the same guys, friends, jobs, meals that we've been choosing for years.

Ginger Emas: Ghosts of Relationships Past Ginger Emas 2011

Who knows, maybe this will force him to pull out of his auto-pilot centrism in 2011, and maybe save his ass.

Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option 2010

An airplane on auto-pilot is rarely on perfect course -- it veers off its mark and makes continuous adjustments to arrive at its true course.

Elaine Hall: 7 Keys to Unlock This Holiday Elaine Hall 2011

The U.S. empire itself is basically functioning on auto-pilot, expanding anywhere it can until it either runs right off the cliff, (Iraq) or hits a brick wall (Russia defying the empire over Georgia for instance).

Obama: Agent of Change? Well, Agent of Somethin’ « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

Is he going to take control of the ongoing War on Terror and War on Drugs, or let the Pentagon and DEA run on auto-pilot?

Matthew Yglesias » Weekend Requests? 2009