Roleplay
Roleplay: Degraded Braking on Landing at Lisbon
You have just landed at Lisbon when an antiskid fault leaves you with degraded braking and you stop on the runway. Play the pilot: make the…
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Listening Library
Listening: Hydraulic Problem on Approach to Denver
A regional jet loses one of its two hydraulic systems in cruise. An error-correction dictation about a hydraulic caution and a careful landing.
Roleplay
Roleplay: Electrical Failure and Diversion to Copenhagen
An Airbus A320 loses both main generators over southern Sweden and diverts to Copenhagen on emergency electrical power. You are the First Officer: declare the Mayday,…
Listening Library
Listening: Fuel Imbalance on Departure from Toronto
A regional jet crew declares PAN PAN and turns back to Toronto after a fuel imbalance warning — reorder the six events of this dictation exercise.
Listening Library
Listening: Rejected Takeoff at Paris
An error-correction dictation: an old cargo aircraft rejects its takeoff at Paris after a nose landing gear warning. Listen and correct the seven mistakes in the…
Structure
Structure: ‘Modals of possibility 2’
Practise may, might and could — three modal verbs that express possibility — through an error-correction exercise drawing on the story of Joby Aviation's first piloted…
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