Flight Director

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
FD
Pronunciation
/flaɪt dɪˈrɛktər/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
NASA

Examples in Context

  1. ALTITUDE HOLD ( ALT HOLD ), A mode of the autopilot or flight director to maintain a selected altitude.
  2. So, the NASA flight director told them they were " go " for the moon.
  3. Those were the words from the flight director on the ground.
  4. " We will attempt to land somewhere," flight director LeRoy Cain said after Monday morning's two unsuccessful landing opportunities.
  5. Autopilot flight director instrument guidance system localizer signal

Other meanings of FD

Flash Disc Computing
Floppy Disk Computing
Floppy Drive Computing
Ferredoxin Academic
Fire Direction Gov
Focused Dispatch (exercise) Gov
Functional Description Gov
Federated Department Stores, Incorporated, of Delaware Business
Microsoft Fortran Declaration file Computing
DataFlex Computing