instrument flying

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   navigation of an airplane solely by instruments

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Questions about instrument flying

What does instrument flying mean?

instrument flying means "navigation of an airplane solely by instruments".

Is instrument flying a common word?

instrument 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.