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Happy birthday Fly High English!

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Picture of a person holding a candle in the shape of a 1.
Fly High English is 1 year old today.

Exactly one year ago today, the fist post for Fly High English went live on this website. Since that time Fly High English has published material every week so that anybody interested in Aviation English around the world can practice and improve their English skills.

At the beginning there was video and audio to work with, then in November last year we added the Twitter feed, to give students the opportunity to read interesting authentic texts. Every week since then, the most interesting texts have been selected for students to read to improve their English. After the Twitter feed, we started writing questions and answers to the videos published, giving students more opportunities to test their English, learn new vocabulary, all for free, without ads.

But we don’t intend to stop there. We are excited to be working on new projects to improve the website and there are exciting things to come in the near future, so keep following us and we hope you learn a lot!

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CSeries

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With all of the activity happening at Airbus and Boeing it’s sometimes easy to forget that there are other manufactures producing excellent aircraft. Today’s video focuses on one of those manufacturers and its latest developments with its newest planes, the CSeries.

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. Which company makes the CSeries?
  2. Which planes were performing tests for the team?
  3. Which flight permit did they receive recently and why are they testing in two different sites?
  4. What do customers have to look forward to in the cabin?
  5. How many planes did Macquarie AirFinance place for the CS300 aircraft?
  6. Is Macquarie an airline?
  7. Why did they select the CS300 aircraft?
  8. How many aircraft orders and commitments they have for CSeries aircraft in total?

CSeries Program Update – CS300 News

Hear the latest news on the CSeries program. For more information, visit cseries.com *** Voici les dernières nouvelles du programme CSeries. Apprenez-en davantage sur cseries.com/fr

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Phone fire

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

A CRJ-900 was descending as normal to its destination when the crew declared an emergency, stating that a passenger’s phone had caught fire. They planned to evacuate the aircraft after landing. The airport postponed departures to accommodate the emergency. The aircraft landed safely on an inactive runway, then they vacated the runway, came to a stop and shut down the engines on a taxiway. The crew told the passengers that they would disembark normally and requested busses to take them to the terminal. The runway reopened about 20 minutes after landing.

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Phone fire

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: postpone (v.), accommodate (v.), vacate (v.)

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A350 certification process answers

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

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. He says that it’s just the half-way point for its entry into service with an airline
  2. There are 3 certification phases; the testing before the plane flies, the flight tests, and the route proving is the final phase.
  3. Five planes were needed because there were so many tests to do and Airbus wanted to keep the program on schedule.
  4. The plane was tested under very cold weather conditions, high operating altitudes, high airports and hot weather conditions. Test were also done to the structure, aerodynamics and brakes.
  5. This phases involves proving that the plane can be operated in a normal airline environment; carrying passengers, servicing the plane, doing short and long flights with normal turnaround times and operating in a variety of airport and environmental conditions.
  6. 2,500 documents.
  7. September 2014, so they were able to maintain their schedule exactly as they planned.

As an extra activity, try taking about the certification process for the A350, record yourself and listen to check your mistakes. Use some new vocabulary that you heard from the video.

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A350 certification process

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With last week’s A320neo maiden flight and this week’s A350 certification, Airbus certainly has a lot happening at the moment! To keep up with that, here’s an interesting video that describes the certification process of the A350.

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 does the narrator say about the first flight of a new jet?
  2. How many phases does the certification process have? What are they?
  3. Why were five A350s needed in the testing phase?
  4. What are some of the environmental ‘limits’ that the plane was tested under?
  5. What is ‘route proving’, the final phases that the A350 had to go through?
  6. How many documents were scrutinised by the aviation authorities before giving the aircraft its certification?
  7. When did Airbus promise to have the certification for the A350?

A350 XWB is ‘Good to go’ as it obtains its certification

The A350 XWB received its Type Certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on 30th September 2014, which paves the way for the jetliner’s planned first customer delivery to Qatar Airways in the fourth quarter.