instrument landing

1. 1.

   an aircraft landing made entirely by means of instruments

   Broaderaircraft landing

Questions about instrument landing

What does instrument landing mean?

instrument landing means "an aircraft landing made entirely by means of instruments".

Is instrument landing a common word?

instrument 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.