fly by the seat of one's pants

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To pilot an aircraft without the aid of instruments and without a flight plan, using only instinct, visual observation, and practical judgment.

   “Between world wars, when Douglas Bader was a cocky, teen-age R.A.F. cadet . . . a man could navigate by eye and the nearest railroad track and fly by the seat of his pants.”

2. fiil To use one's judgment, initiative, and perceptions as events unfold in order to improvise a course of action without a predetermined plan or without the desirable data inputs to decision making.

   ““Unlike Obama and his methodical process, McCain was flying by the seat of his pants,” the authors observe.”