flight pattern
Plane's planned path
A flight pattern is the planned or regular route an aircraft follows, particularly during approach to or departure from an airport.
Air traffic control assigns flight patterns to maintain safe separation between planes.
The term extends to birds and insects: Scientists tracked the flight pattern of migrating geese.
Metaphorically, it can describe any predictable trajectory or routine path.
- trajectoryPath of moving object
- routePath from A to B
- airwayPassage for breath
- air trafficAircraft in flight
- glideMove with effortless continuity
soar · migration · corridor · descent · steep descent · approach · final approach · holding · landing · touch and go · takeoff · loop · spiral · figure eight · arc · formation · flock · radar
- bird markingsbars, bands, barred, banded, spots
- birdingbirding, bird watching, birdwatcher, birder, binoculars
- figure eightsinfinity symbol, figure eight knot, figure eight loop