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Flight information service
A flight information service (FIS) is an air traffic service giving advice and information for safe, efficient flights; pilots remain responsible for collision avoidance, unlike under air traffic control.
Flight instructor
A flight instructor is a qualified pilot who teaches people to fly, endorsing students for solo flights and vouching for their readiness to aviation authorities.
Flight instruments
Flight instruments, also called cockpit instrumentation, are the aircraft cockpit devices showing airspeed, altitude, attitude, and heading, allowing flight by reference to instruments alone when visual cues are absent.
Flight International
Flight International, founded 1909 as Flight by Stanley Spooner, is the UK's oldest continuously published aviation news magazine, renamed in 1962, known for cutaway drawings and a free 1909–2005 digital archive.
Flight into Egypt
The Flight into Egypt, also called the Holy Family in Egypt, is the escape of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph from Bethlehem to Egypt, told in Matthew 2:13–23.
Flight jacket
Flight jacket, also called aviator or bomber jacket: military aircrew outerwear born with the 1917 U.S. Aviation Clothing Board, evolving from leather A-2, B-3 and G-1 to nylon MA-1 and flame-resistant CWU-45/P, later a civilian fashion staple.
Flight length
Flight length, also called stage length or haul, is the distance an aircraft travels on a single segment between two airports, typically measured as a great circle distance and categorized as short, medium, or long haul.
Flight level
A flight level (FL) is a level of constant atmospheric pressure referenced to 29.92 inches of mercury, used instead of altitude above the transition level, and expressed in hundreds of feet.
Flight management system
A flight management system (FMS) is an aircraft's onboard computer that builds a complete flight plan, combining navigation inputs to command the autopilot and autothrottle while optimizing fuel and time.
Flight number
A flight number, also called a flight code, is the identifier an airline assigns to a scheduled flight, combined with the airline's designator code, as in AA1 or LH400.
Flight nurse
A flight nurse is a registered nurse who cares for patients during air transport, a role that began in the US military during World War II.
Flight of Amangkurat I
The Flight of Amangkurat I (Pelarian Amangkurat I) was the 1677 westward flight of Mataram's king from his capital Plered after the rebel Trunajaya captured it; he died at Tegal.
Flight of ideas
Flight of ideas (Ideenflucht) is a formal thought disorder of rapid, loosely linked topic shifts in pressured speech, a DSM-5 manic episode criterion in bipolar disorder, distinct from the subjective experience of racing thoughts.
Flight of Seonjo to Uiju
The Flight of Seonjo to Uiju was King Seonjo of Joseon's 1592 retreat from the capital Hanyang to Uiju during the Imjin War, after Japanese forces overran the capital.
Flight of the Bumblebee (Yellowjackets)
"Flight of the Bumblebee" is season 1, episode 8 of the Showtime drama Yellowjackets (aired January 2, 2022), directed by Ariel Kleiman and written by Cameron Brent Johnson and Liz Phang; it features Van's near-cremation and Laura Lee's death in a plane explosion.
Flight of the Conchords
Flight of the Conchords: New Zealand musical-comedy duo of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, formed in Wellington in 1998, known for deadpan genre-parody songs, the 2007–2009 HBO series, and the 2018 Live in London special.
Flight of the Conchords (TV series)
Flight of the Conchords: HBO musical comedy series (2007–2009, 22 episodes) created by James Bobin, Jemaine Clement, and Bret McKenzie, adapted from a 2005 BBC Radio 2 show, starring the New Zealand duo as struggling musicians in New York.
Flight of the Intruder
Flight of the Intruder is a 1991 John Milius war film adapted from Stephen Coonts's 1986 Naval Institute Press novel, starring Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, and Brad Johnson as A-6 Intruder crew flying an unauthorized Hanoi raid.
Flight of the Navigator
Flight of the Navigator is Disney's 1986 sci-fi family film directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Joey Cramer as a boy who vanishes in 1978 and returns eight years later unaged after a faster-than-light trip aboard the alien ship Trimaxion with robot Max, voiced by Paul Reubens.
Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film)
Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 American survival drama directed by John Moore, in which plane-crash survivors in the Gobi Desert build a new aircraft from the wreckage.
Flight of the Red Balloon
Flight of the Red Balloon (Le voyage du ballon rouge, 红气球) is Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 2007 France-Taiwan drama starring Juliette Binoche, inspired by Lamorisse's 1956 short and commissioned for the Musée d'Orsay's 20th anniversary.
Flight of the Taira from the capital
The flight of the Taira from the capital (平氏都落ち) was the Taira clan's abandonment of Kyoto in 1183 after defeat at Kurikara, taking Emperor Antoku and the imperial regalia.
Flight of the Wild Geese
Flight of the Wild Geese: the 1691 departure of about 14,000 Irish Jacobite soldiers under Patrick Sarsfield to France after the Treaty of Limerick, later known as the Wild Geese serving in European armies.
Flight of the Yuan court to the north (Toghon Temür)
The flight of the Yuan court to the north was Emperor Toghon Temür's departure from Dadu by night in 1368, beginning a continuing Yuan court in the steppe.
Flight Operational Quality Assurance
Flight Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA), known in Europe as flight data monitoring, is a voluntary safety program in which operators routinely record and analyze flight data from normal operations.
Flight planning
Flight planning is the process of determining a flight's route, fuel, altitudes, and alternate aerodromes before departure, so the aircraft can complete the operation safely.
Flight recorder
A flight recorder is a crash-protected device on aircraft that stores flight data and cockpit audio for accident investigation, combining the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder.
Flight Risk (film)
Flight Risk is a 2025 American action thriller directed by Mel Gibson, in which a pilot flying a fugitive witness over Alaska is a hitman. It stars Mark Wahlberg.
Flight Safety Foundation
The Flight Safety Foundation is an international nonprofit based in Alexandria, Virginia, founded in 1945 to give impartial, independent safety guidance to the aviation and aerospace industry.
Flight Service Station
A Flight Service Station (FSS) is an FAA air traffic facility that gives pilot briefings, processes flight plans, and aids lost aircraft, without controlling air traffic.