blind flying

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   using only instruments for flying an aircraft because you cannot see through clouds or mists etc.

   Synonymsblind landing

   Broaderflight

Questions about blind flying

What does blind flying mean?

blind flying means "using only instruments for flying an aircraft because you cannot see through clouds or mists etc.".

What is another word for blind flying?

Close synonyms include blind landing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blind flying a common word?

blind flying is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.