2. Choose the appropriate meaning.

1) Fare-paying passengers are taken ‘any where-anу time’ by …

a) the air taxi pilot

b) the ferry pilot

c) the helicopter pilot

d) the experimental test pilot

2) Company executives are transported to branch plants and business conferences by …

a) the flight instructor

b) the agricultural pilot

c) the company pilot

d) the engineering test pilot.

3) Students' readiness to take examinations for licensed ratings is determined by …

a) the commuter airline pilot

b) the flight instructor

c) the company pilot

d) the commercial airplane pilot.

4) New aircraft are taken from the manufacturing plant to dealers’ showrooms by …

a) the company pilot

b) the agricultural pilot

c) the charter pilot

d) the ferry pilot.

5) Newly designed and experimental aircraft are flied by …

a) the test pilot

b) the ferry pilot

c) the flight instructor

d) the charter pilot.

6) Workers and supplies arc carried to offshore oil rigs by …

a) the commercial airline pilot

b) the helicopter pilot

c) the airtaxi pilot

d) the test pilot

7) Herbicides, insecticides, and fertilizers are dusted or sprayed on seeds, crops, orchards, forests, fields, and swamps by …

a) the ferry pilot

b) the commuter airline pilot

c) the company pilot

d) the agricultural pilot

8) Aerial photography is made by …

a) the agricultural pilot

b) the commercial airline pilot

c) the helicopter pilot

d) the charter pilot.

9) Geological survey is made by …

a) the experimental test pilot

b) the flight instructor

c) the helicopter pilot

d) the commercial airline pilot.

10) People stranded by floods are rescued by …

a) the agricultural pilot

b) the flight instructor

c) the commuter airline pilot

d) the helicopter pilot.

3. Here are the definitions to the aviation words used in the text. Find them according to the indicated paragraph.

a) - aeroplane used for training flights in which the instructor can operate the clutch and brakes;

- flight in which the pilot flies alone without an instructor;

- official document showing that permission has been given to perform flights;

c) - place where aircraft for sale are put on display;

d) - group of aircraft owned and operated by one organization;

e) - way taken or planned to get from one place to another;

f) - company or service providing regular flights for public use;

g) - taking pictures from aircraft or the air;

- route regularly taken by aircraft,

- type of aircraft with horizontal revolving blades or rotors, able to take off and land vertically and remain stationary in the air;

- place where helicopters take off and land.

4. Pair work. Choose two pilot's jobs, ask and answer each other questions about them as if were a pilot.

5. Match English and Russian equivalents.

principles of flight завод-производитель

aviation weather коммерческое ВС

aviation navigation ВС с одним двигателем

physiology of flight носить форменную одежду

rules of flight аэрофотосъемка

operation of aircraft легкое двухдвигательное ВС

dual-controlled aeroplane первый самостоятельный полет

solo flights расписание регулярных рейсов

students' readiness перелет из одного пункта в другой

licensed rating воздушная реклама

newly designed and experimental aircraft дочерние предприятия

design standards полетное задание

manufacturing plant парк самолетов

commercial airliner эксплуатация ВС

cross-country flights коммерческие пассажиры

branch plants навигационные средства

a fleet of aeroplanes готовность учащихся

a regular schedule ВС с неподвижным крылом

flying assignment сезонная работа

fare-paying passengers проверка государственных авиатрасс

single-engine aeroplane больничный вертодром

light twin-engine aeroplane дипломированная квалифицированная

отметка пилота

to wear iniform принципы полета

a fixed-wing aeroplane стандарты конструкции

aerial photography непродолжительные полеты

aerial advertising ВС специального назначение

checking government airways вновь созданные и экспериментальные

ВС

navigational aids авиационная погода

a hospital heliport открытое летное поле

flights of short duration ВС с двойным управлением

specially-designed aircraft авиационная навигация

open field физиология полета

seasonal work правила выполнения полета