plural of rate of climb

Alternative form of climbout

plural of climb-out

Alternative form of jump on the bandwagon.

(aviation, usually intransitive, of an aircraft) To slowly but continuously climb during cruise flight as the aircraft's weight decreases due to fuel burnoff (done because flight at higher altitudes is more efficient but requires a lighter aircraft).

(aviation) An instance of cruise-climbing.

(aviation, usually intransitive, of an aircraft) To periodically climb to higher and higher altitudes during cruise flight, as the aircraft becomes lighter from fuel burnoff, to take advantage of the reduced drag at higher altitudes; like cruise-climbing, but with the aircraft climbing in discrete steps instead of continuously.

(aviation) An instance of step climbing.

simple past tense and past participle of cruise-climb

simple past tense and past participle of step-climb