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Pay with Apple Pay & Google Pay

In order to continue making your experience on Fly High English easier and more seamless we’ve now added the ability to pay using Apple Pay and Google Pay. Whether you’re on a mobile device, tablet, laptop or using your desktop computer at home you won’t need to pull out your credit card in order to make a payment, you can just use Apple Pay or Google Pay. In order to see these buttons on payment pages when making a purchase you’ll need to have either Apple Pay or Google Pay already set up on your device, then the buttons will appear on the relevant pages. If you don’t have one of these set up you won’t see it as a payment option. In addition to being a convenient way to pay, these methods use extra security features to protect your credit card details.

Classes and courses can be paid for using Apple Pay or Google Pay

So if you use one or both of these payment options you now have another place where you can use them, if not, now might be the time to give one a try.

You can of course use a Visa or Mastercard as normal if you don’t use Apple Pay or Google Pay.

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Video answers: Running out of pilots

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

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. A person needs a university qualification, a private pilot’s licence, a commercial pilot’s licence, 265 flight hours, an ATPL licence and then around an extra 1500 flight hours.
  2. To accumulate these hours pilots work as flight instructors, fly skydiving planes, tow banners or work for airlines flying small single-engine planes.
  3. Usually their financial situation is difficult, with large debts to pay and a low salary.
  4. Getting to and from the airport, passing through security, attending the briefing, inspecting and preparing the aircraft, boarding passengers, deplaning passengers, packing up filing paperwork all form part of a pilot’s routine in addition to just flying the plane.
  5. More senior pilots want to fly international flights because they accumulate more flight hours per flight than domestic pilots and have more free days as a result.
  6. Emirates flew 46 planes to Dubai World Central Airport and left the planes there for months because they didn’t have enough pilots to fly them.
  7. Large American carriers have needed to fast-track younger pilots through the system earlier in order to keep their pilot numbers up.
  8. Regional airlines have needed to cancel routes as a result, even though they were likely profitable.
  9. The idea to increase automation to the point where only one or less pilots are needed has drawn a lot of criticism.
  10. The industry could help stop the decline in pilot numbers by making the cost of training much lower.

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Happy birthday Fly High English!

Picture of a person holding a candle in the shape of a 1.

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!