feet dry
English
Phrase
feet dry
- (military, aviation) Flying over land.
- Antonym: feet wet
- 1979, Approach (volume 24, issue 11)
- The aircraft headed “feet-dry” by the pilot's judicious use of rudders and afterburners.
- 1994, Paul T. Gillcrist, Tomcat!: The Grumman F-14 Story (page 196)
- Feet wet: Fighter direction brevity code used to report that a plane had left land ("feet dry") and was now over water.