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Instrument problem

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You should try to write everything that is said.

You can listen as many times as you want.

Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 4+

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Difficult words: navigation display (n.)

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A350 wing test

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. There is more than 2,500 tonnes of steel in the cage.
  2. They plan to pull the wings with great force to test their strength.
  3. They have 12,000 sensors to record data.
  4. Its displacement is up to 5.2 metres under the maximum load.
  5. They pressurise the aircraft to a level that would be worse than in space, more than 1.3bar.

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A350 wing test

Here’s an interesting video that shows the wing testing process that the Airbus A350 had to pass.

Try to answer the following questions about the video and come back on Monday for the answers.

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

Have a great weekend!!

  1. How much steel is there in the cage around the plane?
  2. What do they plan to do to the wings?
  3. How many sensors do they have to record data?
  4. When the maximum load is applied to the wing, what is its displacement?
  5. How much do they pressurise the aircraft?

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Pushing the A350 XWB to the brink

Airbus’ thorough programme of static ground testing — including mechanical load and pressurisation evaluations — proves the A350 XWB’s structural limits before the aircraft can make its first flight.

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Excursion

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

An A330, with 206 passengers and 11 crew, approached its destination in bad weather. There was fog and visibility was low. They aborted the first approach and went around for a second approach. On the second approach they touched down but skidded off the side of the runway and stopped 40 metres to the left of it The crew started an evacuation of the plane immediately and a few people received minor injuries during the evacuation process.

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Excursion

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You should try to write everything that is said.

You can listen as many times as you want.

Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 3+

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Have a great day!

Difficult words: excursion (n.), abort (v.), skid off (v.)

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MH370 – One year later answers

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. He says that its functions include following waypoints and landing the plane if necessary.
  2. No it doesn’t.
  3. An electrical problem, a cockpit fire, Russian hijackers, that the plane was shot down, and a suicide by one of the pilots.
  4. He thinks it was a mid-air emergency or deliberate action which depressurised the cabin and killed everyone on board, leaving a ghost plane.
  5. It continues to fly in a straight line until it runs out of fuel.
  6. When they find the black boxes.

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