DCHP-3

seat-of-the-pants flying

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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flying after the fashion of a seat-of-the-pants flyer.

Quotations

1966
As more and more instruments and greater refinements in aircraft came into use, seat-of-the-pants flying became something that was looked upon with the same kind of suspicion as that displayed toward rule-of-thumb measurements.