1 Discuss with your partner the following questions:
Which side of the fuselage is the starboard side?
Where is the cockpit?
What is the name of the very front part of the fuselage?
What is attached to the horizontal stabilizer?
What is the rudder attached to?
What is the flight compartment?
Is the nose wheel controllable?
Is the fin movable?
What can the nose contain?
Where is the toilet?
2 Fill in the blanks with the suitable words and answer the questions:
………... consists of five structural units?
What ………... the engine and some systems?
What contains ………... ?
What ………... a fin and a horizontal stabilizer?
Focus
On Vocabulary
Cockpit instruments and displays
What cockpit instruments and displays do you know?
Look at the pictures and complete the captions.
1. It is an …….. . 2. It is an …….. . 3. It is a…….. . 4. It is a …….. .
It is a …….. . 6. It is a ……... . 7. It is an ……..
3 Match the beginnings and ends of the definitions.
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An altimeter is |
an instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of the attitude of the plane - it indicates attitude in both pitch and roll. The instrument is considered the most important for flight under the instrument flight rules (IFR), but has minimal application under the visual flight rules (VFR), except in emergencies, when the pilot may lose visual reference to the ground. |
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Airspeed indicator is |
an instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of his heading. It is sometimes referred to by its older name, the directional gyro, or direction indicator or DI. |
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Vertical speed indicator is |
ahighly sensitive barometer, which shows an aircraft’s altitude above mean sea level by measuring atmospheric pressure. |
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Magnetic compass is |
shows the rate and direction of a turn. |
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Directional gyro (Heading indicator) is |
an instrument used in an aircraft to display the speed of an aircraft (typically in knots) relative to the air mass in which the aircraft is flying. |
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Turn and slip indicator |
a navigational instrument for finding directions. It is the main method of indicating the heading or flight direction of an aircraft. |
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Artificial horizon (Attitude indicator) is |
a variometer (also known as a rate-of-climb indicator, a vertical speed indicator (VSI), or a vertical velocity indicator (VVI)) is an instrument in an aircraft used to inform the pilot of the rate of descent or climb. |
Vocabulary revision and extension. Look at the first (left) column of the table and decide how many cockpit instruments you remember. Test yourself looking at the second (right) column.
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Attitude (director) indicator (AI) /artificial horizon |
авиагоризонт/указатель положения; |
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Radio altimeter |
радиовысотомер; |
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Altimeter |
высотомер; |
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Vertical speed indicator (VSI) |
вариометр; |
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Airspeed indicator (ASI) |
индикатор скорости; |
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Compass |
компас; |
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Engine instruments |
панель приборов двигателя; |
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Fuelgauges |
датчики горючего; |
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Head-up display (HUD) |
проекционный бортовой индикатор/ индикатор на лобовом стекле; |
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Multi-function display (MFD) |
многофункциональный индикатор; |
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Warninglights |
сигнальные лампы; |
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Undercarriage indicator |
индикация выпуска шасси; |
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Turn and speed indicator |
указатель поворота и скольжения; |
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ILSindicator |
указатель системы посадки по приборам; |
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Machmeter |
указатель числа М; |
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Automatic direction finder (ADF) |
автоматический радиокомпас; |
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Distance measuring equipment (DME) |
дальномерное оборудование; |
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Clock |
часы; |
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Horizontal situation indicator |
указатель горизонтального положения; |
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Radio magnetic indicator |
радиомагнитный указатель курсовых углов. |
Give the English equivalent to the following word(s):
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указатель системы посадки по приборам; индикация выпуска шасси; высотомер; дальномерное оборудование; индикатор скорости; указатель горизонтального положения; авиагоризонт/указатель положения; панель приборов двигателя. |
Discussion
Give explanation of the following cockpit instruments:
What is airspeed indicator (ASI)?
What is altitude indicator or artificial horizon?
What is altimeter?
What is turn and slip indicator?
What is a directional gyro?
What is a vertical speed indicator?
What is compass?
