On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 05:30:20PM -0400, Alan Anderson via tlhIngan-Hol wrote:
On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 2:57 PM Lieven L. Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol < tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:
...I would guess that this is not used for a flight plan. Such a plan lists different times and is used daily for a very long time.
That's not what a flight plan is (at least not in English). A flight plan is a one-time thing. You're probably thinking of an airline flight schedule or timetable, which is completely different.
The program of a conference is a list of several different events that happen only once, and that schedule is only used once for one specific event.
That doesn't really match a flight plan either, though. Flight plans aren't usually detailed schedules of multiple happenings, and they usually include contingencies in the event of a destination airport being either unavailable or unreachable (due to weather or other situations). I think a flight plan might be closer to {jey} "itinerary".
Also (and possibly crucially): a flight plan is not something that the passengers of a plane are likely to ever think about, unless they happen to be pilots themselves and are curious. It's a fairly technical term, and only an actual pilot or flight enthusiast would know exactly what a flight plan should look like. As a non-pilot native speaker, my concept of a flight plan is limited to "paperwork the pilot needs to file before taking off so that air traffic control knows where they are going". - SapIr (Kelvin)