flight director (English, noun)
expansion: flight director (plural flight directors)
Senses:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A system of a narrow horizontal and vertical bar overlaid on an aircraft's attitude indicator, with the bars deflecting to provide guidance as to the pitch and roll inputs required to maintain the desired flightpath.
qualifier: space flight
glosses: A senior ground controller.
Forms:
form: flight directors
tags: plural