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Bird strike

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An A320 was preparing to depart Los Angeles’ runway 24L en route to San Francisco. While the plane was taking off it suffered a bird strike in engine no.2. The aircraft stopped its climb at 2500 feet and returned to Los Angeles for a safe landing on runway 24L about 10 minutes after its departure.

The the right hand engine was badly damaged and required maintenance after landing.

A replacement plane was ready to depart two hours after the flight originally took off.

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Bird strike

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You can listen as many times as you like.

Come back and check the text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 3+

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Airbus’ voice recognition

Here’s an interesting video of Airbus voice recognition in the cockpit, this new software listens to ATC instructions and provides what is being said in text on a pilot’s screen in real time.

Suggested ICAO level: 5+

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Airbus innovation – Voice recognition: Speaking the right language

Innovative voice recognition software is being developed by Airbus’ Corporate Innovation Team — working in collaboration with Indian software company Uniphore — for improved pilot communication with air traffic controllers. A prototype of this programme has already received enthusiastic responses from flight test crews and customer airline pilots.

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Loss of visibility

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A domestic flight was on final approach to runway 15 at its destination at about 3:35PM. As it descended through 150 feet the visibility began to decrease due to snow.

The crew thought that the visibility was still good enough to continue the landing. The aircraft touched down smoothly with good visibility, but after selecting reverse thrust, some snow began to blow across the runway and the crew lost their visual reference with the lights at the edge of the runway.

The aircraft veered into the snow to the side of the runway and stopped almost immediately. There were some minor injuries, but fortunately, nobody was seriously injured.

There was some minor damage to the fuselage which required maintenance work.

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Loss of visibility

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You can listen as many times as you like.

Come back and check the text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 3+

Have a great day!

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Airbus A350 design

Here’s an interesting video about some of the design advances in the Airbus A350.

Suggested ICAO level: 5+

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Aviation Week Insight: Airbus A350 Design

Aviation Week’s senior editor Guy Norris looks at the technical design of the Airbus A350 during the 2014 Singapore Airshow.