Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fly on a casting-line which is nearest the angler's hand.
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Examples
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Controller Lisa Grimm instructed Mr. White to disconnect the autopilot and hand-fly the airplane.
Summer Travel, as Seen From the Airport Control Tower Scott McCartney 2011
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I can't hand-fly these days, but I can type sixty words a minute.
John T. Halliday: Craplex Cockpit Computers 6 -- Unsafe At Any Speed 2010
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They sit there, watch it mess up, reluctant to intervene, then take over manually and hand-fly only after they're in deep trouble.
John T. Halliday: Craplex Cockpit Computers 7 -- Unsafe At Any Speed 2010
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So, the pilots have to hand-fly it, which pilots do all the time.
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If there are discrepancies, the autopilot would disengage and the pilots would have been alerted to hand-fly the aircraft.
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Dick said, he replied to his First Officer, "I have the aircraft, I want to hand-fly this last landing."
Sedalia Democrat : News Richard Parkhurst 2009
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"If I'm ever in that situation someday where I'm flying in icing and the autopilot's on and have something go off in my head where, 'Oh, that happened a couple of years ago," said Brian Cason, a student pilot, "I should turn the autopilot off and hand-fly the airplane."
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A minute of two earlier there are tenuous hints that indicate failing speed sensors - perhaps iced over - could have forced the autopilot to shut off, leaving the pilots to hand-fly the big, twin-engined jetliner in the treacherous violence of a night-time thunderstorm.
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However, loss of airspeed sensors - resulting in the autopilot disengaging and leaving the crew to hand-fly in the very difficult and demanding nighttime conditions if they had strayed inadvertently into a major thunderstorm or been caught by one rapidly rising from underneath them - could create extreme conditions.
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John: "Those pilots might not have been able to hand-fly their A-330 after their flight displays crashed.
John T. Halliday: Craplex Cockpit Computers 5: Unsafe At Any Speed 2010
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