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Hard landing

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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+

Have a great day!

Difficult words: bounce (v.), roll out (v.), scrape (n.)

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Wildlife management answers

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

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. His tools include; binoculars, hawk traps and several firearms.
  2. He uses these tools to deal with bird or mammal activity around the runways and the approach and departure corridors of the airport.
  3. It varies seasonally, so he isn’t doing the same thing all the time.
  4. He uses the car horn to try to scare the birds away.
  5. Hawks.
  6. No it isn’t. The trap has a soft netting to prevent injury to the bird.
  7. Propane cannons.
  8. He uses the red type, a ‘banger’, which sounds like a loud explosion, and the yellow type, a ‘screamer’, which makes a very high-pitched noise that lasts longer.
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Wildlife management

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Here’s an interesting video that describes how to manage wildlife at an international airport..

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. What tools does Jonathan Leddon use in his work?
  2. What does he use these tools to do?
  3. What is ‘one thing’ he likes about his job?
  4. How does he try to remove the group of birds sitting on a perimetre fence?
  5. What kind of bird is captured in the trap Jonathan demonstrates?
  6. Is the bird harmed by the trap? Why?
  7. What noise making machines are available at the airport to scare birds away?
  8. What types of pyrotechnics does he use?

Wildlife Management at BWI

Jonathan Leddon, USDA’s wildlife biologist in charge of wildlife management at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshal airport in Maryland, describes the tools and tactics of his trade as he drives the perimeter of the airport on August 21, 2014, with Aviation Week & Space Technology senior editor for Avionics and Safety, John Croft.

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Airstairs

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Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

A 737 had completed its flight as normal without anything unusual. The plane parked at a stand without a jetway, so an airstairs was used. While disembarking the aircraft via the airstairs a passenger tripped and fell down the airstairs. He received moderate injuries including cuts and bruises and was taken to a hospital, but his injuries weren’t serious. The other passengers were able to disembark as normal.

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Airstairs

Fly High English logo.

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+

Have a great day!

Difficult words: stand (n.), jetway (n.), trip (v.), fall (v.), bruise (n.)

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CSeries answers

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

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. Bombardier.
  2. FTV2 (Flight Test Vehicle 2) and FTV4.
  3. The FAA flight permit, and they’re testing in two different sites to take advantage of the different weather conditions for testing.
  4. Customers can look forward to the large overhead bins, windows and plenty of space.
  5. 40 firm orders and 10 options.
  6. No, it’s a lessor. They lease or rent aircraft to operators.
  7. It’s the only aircraft that’s optimised for the specific market that Macquarie needs to fill, the 127 to 150-seat market.
  8. They have 563 orders and commitments so far, with 243 firm orders.