flight control

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   control from ground stations of airplanes in flight by means of messages transmitted to the pilot electronically

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Questions about flight control

What does flight control mean?

flight control means "control from ground stations of airplanes in flight by means of messages transmitted to the pilot electronically".

Is flight control a common word?

flight control 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.