If an airline flight is everything that happens in between your starting and ending gates. What is the generic term for each time the plane ascends or descends during an air route? In layman terms, what terminology would define the four '_____?' equally as four separate things.
If the image below indicates the proper terminology for a flight. What is the hypernym for phase 3/4 and phase 6/7 of the air route?
Best Answer
There seems to be no single-word that combines "Takeoff" and "Landing".
However, there is the short form TOL. From Wikipedia's article, "Takeoff and Landing", we can read about different kinds of TOLs such as VTOL, CTOL, etc.