fly blind

1. 1.

   fly an airplane solely by relying on instruments

   Broaderfly

   air travel

Questions about fly blind

What does fly blind mean?

fly blind means "fly an airplane solely by relying on instruments".

Is fly blind a common word?

fly blind is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.