To periodically climb to higher and higher altitudes during cruise flight, as the aircraft becomes lighter from fuelburnoff, to take advantage of the reduced drag at higher altitudes; like cruise-climbing, but with the aircraft climbing in discrete steps instead of continuously.
Noun
An instance of step climbing.
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