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