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Meanings of automatic pilot in English

Portuguese
piloto automático
Catalan
pilot automàtic

A navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course.

piloto automático
Usage of automatic pilot in English
1
Langley suddenly poses a question that takes Sevillas's brain off automatic pilot.
Saving max
2
The car was therefore on automatic pilot as it pulled in where ordered.
The Irish Times
3
The founders provided no mechanism for a government to run on automatic pilot.
Idiot america: how stupidity became a virtue in the land of the ...
4
The units had barely been finished when a better automatic pilot was invented.
The new yorker
5
Mixing cookie dough was something she never did on automatic pilot.
Chocolate chip cookie murder
6
His face foreshortened but visible, Skeleton looked like a robot on automatic pilot.
Shadowland
7
I didn't know our bodies came equipped with automatic pilot.
Midnight caller
8
Some days it was easier to operate on automatic pilot.
Chocolate chip cookie murder
9
Either his automatic pilot had a boner, or he was here for a reason.
Sins of the Fathers
10
I was on automatic pilot, doing what I do best.
The burglar who traded ted williams
11
HORVATH: Just keep an eye on things...It's on automatic pilot.
Further adventures
12
Except this plane is on automatic pilot, and it's gonna run out of fuel.
The new yorker
13
The automatic pilot works the elevator and the ailerons.
Around the World in Ten Days
14
They can't just be on automatic pilot, Bennett said.
Reuters
15
They see where the country went on automatic pilot.
Idiot america: how stupidity became a virtue in the land of the ...
16
She did it by reflex now, on automatic pilot.
Safe harbour
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