Plain English Meaning

Skills your body learns by doing, where the right amount of pressure, movement, and timing becomes second nature with practice.

Full Definition

Skills that depend on coordinated physical movement and the body's sense of motion, position, and feel, learned through repeated practice rather than memorization. In aviation training, these are the hands-and-feet skills a pilot develops to control the aircraft smoothly, such as maintaining straight-and-level flight, coordinating turns, and flaring on landing.

Context Anchor

Used in flight instruction when an instructor demonstrates a and the practices the physical control movements until they become smooth and .