instrument board
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Without looking at his instrument board, he can tell by the feel of his plane that he is traveling in a straight line parallel with the ground and is ready to land gracefully.
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Signals on the instrument board will tell the pilot whether the block ahead is clear and whether the next plane behind him is treading on his tail.
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Like the moving needles on the instrument board of a climbing plane, all the economic indicators rose.
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But they never look at the instrument board on a line run without seeing on the compass card a sharp reminder of a TWA deficiency: all its routes run east and west.
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Occasionally I turned to scan my instrument board, but mostly I looked behind me.
From Test Pilot by Collins, Jimmy
