Complete the radio- exchange with sentences from the box. Then listen and check your answers.

ACFT:PAN PAN PAN Gatwick Tower Speedbird 515 overhead GV- Bird strike closed down #1, _______ _______________________________. TWR:Speedbird 515- Tower- Roger PAN, confirm you are able to climb or maintain altitude. ACFT:Speedbird 515, affirm, maintaining 2500 feet. TWR: Roger Speedbird 515. Contact ________________________ _______________________________. ACFT:Contact Approach 119,35- Speedbird 515. ACFT: Approach Speedbird 515 maintaining 2500 feet and heading 250 inbound to Midhurst. APP:Speedbird 515 Approach turn left heading _____________________ ________________________,wind 270/10 knots, emergency services _______________________________. ACFT:Left heading 080 maintaining 2500 feet, vectors for ILS approach RW 26, wind 270/10 knots- Speedbird 515

Q request priority landing back at Gatwick Q will be standing by Q Approach 119,35 for sequencing Q miles to touchdown Q 080-maintain 2500 feet, radar vectors for ILS approach RW 26 Q cleared ILS approach Q closing the localizer from

APP:Speedbird 515 turn left heading 350, 15 _________________________. ACFT:Left heading 350- Speedbird 515 APP:Speedbird 515 left heading 290 - _____________________________ the left, descend 2000 feet, report established. ACFT:Turning left heading 290, will report established. ACFT:Speedbird 515 established. APP:Speedbird 515, ________________ _____________________, 8 miles from touchdown, contact Tower 118,1.

Report your supervisor on the situation.

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Listen to pilot’s messages and reply.

AAR 541.

AUA 52.

AFR 112.

BAW 264.

DLH 710.

KAL 502.

KLM 865.

 

12. Answer the following questions:

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Watch a video and mark the statement true or false.

VIDEO # 29

1. Flight 4263, Boeing 767, departing from Manchester airport catches fire during take-off. 2. There are 225 passengers and 8 crew on board the aircraft. 3. The pilot declared Pan Pan due to engine malfunction. 4. There have been two large birds ingested into the left engine and which became the reason for engine failure. 5. The pilots decide to shut down the engine and to come back to Manchester airport. 6. Before landing they request clearance to dump fuel. 7. Thirty five minutes later they land successfully using only one engine. 8. There were only minor injuries to some passengers. 9. The plane is now being checked and the passengers are being boarded on another flight.

True / False True / False True / False True / False True / False True / False True / False True / False True / False

Do birds cause any problems where you work?

Round-table talk.

1. Are controllers responsible for informing pilots about bird activities that might affect the flight?

 

 

2. What damage to aircraft can birds cause?

 

 

3. What might the results of bird strikes be?

 

4. What are pilots’ actions in case of bird strike?

 

5. What are controller’s actions in this emergency?

 

6. What birds scaring methods are used at your airport?

 

 

7. Have you ever handled or heard about traffic experiencing a bird strike?

 

 

 

 

VIDEO # 30

Warm up. ¸ Watch a video and guess what we are going to discuss now.

Listening and Speaking Bank.

Unit 7A. Vocabulary to be learnt.

Look at the pictures and identify the type of aircraft and say what you know about it.

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Listen to the following definitions of aircraft main parts and guess what they are.

 

1. _____________________________________________________________________

2. _____________________________________________________________________

3. _____________________________________________________________________

4. _____________________________________________________________________

5. _____________________________________________________________________

Listen and check your answers.

Match the words in A to the words with the similar meaning in B.

A B

1. complicated	a) surroundings
2. reverse	b) additional
3. auxiliary	c) complex
4. distribution	d) location
5. to change	e) to alter
6. purpose	f) to write down on a tape
7. to record	g) dealing out
8. variables	h) changeable quantities
9. whereabouts	i) to hold something up
10. aids	j) facilities
11. to contain	k) with the purpose of
12. to discover	l) to consist of, comprise
13. in order to	m) action of changing direction
14. deflection	n) to join or fix to smth
15. mainly	o) function
16. to attach	p) chiefly
17. avionics	q) equipment
18. device	r) to detect
19. behaviour	s) aim
20. to support	t) opposite
21. environment	u) aviation electronics

Match the words in A to the words in B to make collocations. Different variants are possible.

A B

1. complicated	a) stabilizer and rudder
2. main	b) controls and instruments
3. direct and reverse	c) stability in flight
4. auxiliary	d) construction
5. fuel	e) stabilizer and elevator
6. secondary	f) thrust
7. to lower	g) storage and distribution
8. fuselage	h) structure
9. to get	i) lifting surfaces
10. flight	j) flight controls
11. vertical	k) normal conditions
12. horizontal	l) landing gear
13. to provide	m) turn
14. to extend	n) upward/downward
15. to execute	o) power unit
16. to deflect	p) slats