Chatting with judge in flight? (6)
I believe the answer is:
jawing
'chatting' is the definition.
('jaw' can be a synonym of 'chat')
'with judge in flight?' is the wordplay.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'judge' becomes 'j'.
'in flight?' becomes 'awing' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'j' next to 'awing' is 'JAWING'.
(Other definitions for jawing that I've seen before include "Gossip" , "Win Jag (anag)" .)