Example sentences for: copilot

How can you use “copilot” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The specific English word emergency is required in the aviation protocol to convey to the controller that the disaster is imminent, but the copilot failed to use that word, even though the pilot had used its exact Spanish equivalent in telling him what to say.

  • A Captain who was flying with an assigned altitude of 10,000 feet while being vectored for a landing on runway 27L thought he heard the copilot say Cleared to seven, took this to mean Cleared to seven thousand feet, and started to descend.

  • In similar incident, a copilot reports that the landing field was in sight by saying I've got it , with the result that the flying pilot let go of the controls.

  • The 336 Captain resisted this instruction by having his copilot radio to ask for permission to continue landing, but he switched from technical aviation jargon to ordinary English and used the word hold to express this request.

  • The flying pilot had instructed the copilot Digale que estamos en emergencia and the copilot had responded Si, senor, ya le dije ; but what he had actually radioed to the controller was We're running out of fuel .


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