Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!
Suggested ICAO level for video: 4+
1. Nearly 200ft long and nearly 20ft wide.
2. They help to load the plane fast.
3. About two tonnes of packages.
4. Teams of people load the containers simultaneously, and it takes only a couple of minutes to move a cargo container onto a plane and secure it.
5. Because the inside of a plane’s fuselage is curved and curved cargo containers allow UPS to use more of the space inside the plane.
Here’s a short video that describes UPS’ process of quickly loading a 757 with its cargo containers.
Try to answer the following questions about the video and come back on Monday for the answers.
Suggested ICAO level: 4+
Have a great weekend!!
1. How big is the interior space of a 757 if you removed the seats?
2. Why are cargo containers used by UPS?
3. How much can each cargo container hold?
4. What are the advantages of cargo containers?
5. Why do cargo containers have funny shapes?
How UPS Cargo Containers Work
No matter how far you are from your nearest neighbor, if you live in the United States or Europe, UPS can deliver to your address. UPS can deliver to 80 percent of the planet within 48 hours, so if you live somewhere else, it’s still pretty likely that UPS can find you to drop off or pick up packages.
Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.
Enjoy!!
An A330 was on approach to Manchester airport from Doha when the crew received a warning about a suspicious device on the plane. A military jet was sent to follow the plane on its approach to Manchester airport. The plane landed safely and taxied to a remote area for emergency services to check the plane. The airport was closed for safety reasons. Some time later a passenger was arrested for making a bomb hoax threat, but the other passengers were allowed to leave the airport and the airport opened again for landings and departures.
Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You don’t need to understand every word, just the most important ideas. Use your own words to write what happened.
You can listen as many times as you like.
Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.
If you follow aviation news, it’s possible you heard about this incident already.
Suggested ICAO level: 3+
Have a great day!
Difficult words: suspicious device (n.), military jet (n.), remote area (n.)
Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!
Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+
1. 58,000.
2. 250,000.
3. Its 5 parallel runways, which allow for simultaneous takeoffs and landings.
4. 2,700.
5. Coffee.
6. Every shift. They have emergencies related to; cardiac arrests, women going into labour, people who have strokes & smoke in the cockpit.
7. To make sure that each person that comes into the airport makes a smooth transition from air to ground and vice versa.
8. Singapore, Incheon, Amsterdam & some airports in the United Kingdom.
Here’s an interesting video about the world’s busiest airport, Atlanta, and how it operates successfully.
Try to answer the following questions about the video and come back on Monday for the answers.
Suggested ICAO level: 5+
Have a great weekend!!
1. How many people are employed in the airport?
2. How many passengers pass through the airport daily?
3. What makes the airport efficient?
4. How many aircraft movements does the airport have per day?
5. What is the controllers’ favourite drink?
6. How often do the controllers deal with emergency situations? What types of emergencies do they have?
7. What is the airport general manager’s biggest challenge?
8. Which airports does he think of as some of the finest in the world?
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/international/2014/01/16/spc-business-traveller-atlanta-airport-a.cnn.html