blind landing

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

   Synonymsblind flying

   Broaderflight

Questions about blind landing

What does blind landing mean?

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

What is another word for blind landing?

Close synonyms include blind flying. 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 landing a common word?

blind landing 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.