Exercises

1. You should check the pronunciation of key words. Transcribe the words:

Procedures, issuing, departure, en route, surveillance, jurisdiction, ceilings, routinely, visual

2. Find in the texts the English equivalents for the following expressions:

(1) departure runways, (2) the en route segment of the flight, (3) descent instructions, (4) aircraft landing sequences, (5) to handle aircraft flow, (6) obtain a landing slot, (7) a defined airway corridor, (8) instrument flight rules, (9) visual flight rules, (10) a magnetic direction indicator

3. Rearrange the words to make sentences

7. сommodity/ in pilot-controller/Understanding/communications/is/the most important

8. FAA of the United States/To establish a solid basis for understanding/ set up/a pilot/controller glossary

9. goal/ to implement/The ICAO’s/is/in the twenty-first century/an English language proficiency standard/for aviation

10. also/had to/The FAA/deal with/spoken over aviation radios/the issue of letters and numbers.

11. registers/using letters and numbers/its airplanes/ or letters alone/these tail numbers establish an/Each nation/airplane’s identity/in radio communication.

12. To/the communication/facilitate/one segment of the AIM/displays/wherein /a phonetic alphabet/individual letters/are pronounced/as specific and familiar words.

4. Match the words from the texts (1-5) with their synonyms (a-e):

1	to handle	A	to depend on
2	to implement	B	appropriate to the matter in hand
3	to hinge on	C	to complete
4	relevant to	D	to deal with
5	to establish	E	project
6	venture	F	to set up

5. Complete each sentence (1-10) with one of the endings (a-j)

1	The ICAO’s goal is	in the early 1970’s the FAA of the United States set up a pilot/controller glossary
2	Air traffic control has developed from what	for even those pilots who never venture far from their home airports encounter fliers from other lands.
3	To establish a solid basis for understanding,	dependent on radio communications for both safety and efficiency
4	Flying is increasingly an international venture,	was basically a trial-and-error experiment in the 1930’s to an essential segment of the aviation industry
5	At the beginning of the twenty-first century, aviation was largely	to implement an English language proficiency standard for aviation in the twenty-first century

6. Answer the following questions.

1. What do ATC procedures include?

2. What do ATC controllers determine?

3. What are the minimum instruments needed for visual flight rules?

4. When are instrument flight rules used?

5. What does en route ATC include?