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Severe weather

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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An Airbus A319, took off from Copenhagen (Denmark) en route to Moscow (Russia) with 96 people on board. Everything was normal as the plane reached its cruising altitude. One and a half hours into the flight, the plane encountered some CBs. Inside these CBs was moderate turbulence and hail. The hailstones were large and cracked both of the front windshields of the aircraft. Fortunately only the outer winshield layers were damaged and the plane passed through the CBs. The captain decided to continue the flight to Moscow because the damage to the outer windshields wasn’t a significant risk to the safety of the flight.

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Severe weather

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You don’t need to understand every word, just the most important ideas. Use your own words to write what happened.

You can listen as many times as you like.

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: CBs, moderate turbulence, hail (n. / v.), windshield (n.)

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Weather radar problem

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

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A Boeing 777, was flying from New York (USA) to Cairo (Egypt). While it was enroute over the Atlantic Ocean, there was a problem with the weather radar. The crew couldn’t use it to see the weather ahead of them. They decided to divert to Dublin because they knew there was bad weather ahead and it was too dangerous to continue without the radar. They landed 45 minutes later in Dublin airport and requested a maintenance check. Because of the expected delay, the passengers were disembarked and put up in a hotel for the night. Another plane arrived the next morning to continue the flight.

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Weather radar problem

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You don’t need to understand every word, just the most important ideas. Use your own words to write what happened.

You can listen as many times as you like.

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: weather radar (n.), ahead (prep.), divert (v.), too dangerous (adj.)