stick time

English

Etymology

In reference to the control joystick.

Noun

stick time (countable and uncountable, plural stick times)

  1. (aviation) The amount of time that a pilot has spent flying.
    • 2011, Michael D. Mullins, Out of the Mist, Memories of War, page 135:
      Few pilots there matched his stick time.
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