✈️Aviation English

One more perfect word in the treasure of your 5th level vocabulary. menace UK /ˈmen.ɪs/ US /ˈmen.əs/ [ C usually singular ] something that is likely to cause harm, damage or risk. E.g. Abusive passengers are a menace to aviation safety. Dogs running loose at the airfield are a menace. MENACE can be used as a verb. The aircraft got into stall and all occupants' lives were menaced.

A pat-down search is when a police officer pats down the outer surfaces of a person’s clothing in an attempt to find weapons. They are usually made without a warrant and justified if the officer has reasonable suspicion that the person being searched is armed and dangerous.

What injuries can passengers sustain due to turbulence? In case of severe turbulence occupants on board can sustain various injuries: - bleeding - bruising (falling objects can cause bruises, scratches,abrasions (ccадина) -limb fracture (open fracture (открытый перелом), сlose fracture(закрытый перелом) -brain concussion (сотрясение мозга) -laceration (открытая рана)

TO INCINERATE has a number of synonyms such as BURN DOWN BURN TO THE GROUND BURN OUT TO ASHES The doomed plane was totally incinerated on the impact with the ground. The investigators revealed that the dangerous cargo had caught fire and the whole aircraft had incinerated.

FOAM is used not only as a noun. TO FOAM means to cover something with foam. E.g. Airport services foamed the RWY before belly landing. It was a crash-landing, the plane caught fire upon impact. Fire brigades were on standby and foamed the plane instantly.

Today a student of mine while describing a picture has stumbled "People are disembarking the plane. Loaders ....cargo from the plane". So, if we speak about occupants: they "DISEMBARK", "DEPLANE", "GET OFF" the plane cargo: it is "DISEMBARKED", "UNLOADED" from the plane.

PLAUSIBLE means seeming likely to be true, or able to be believed. It is one of my favorites which perfectly suits the 5th level! It is the synonym of "possible". E.g. Investigators consider all plausible reasons for the air crash. The plausible cause of engine failure was a bird congestion.

HEAVILY LADEN  means " heavily loaded or weighed down". E.g If a plane is heavily laden with the cargo, it is complicated for it to climb high altitudes.

JACKSCREW is a device used to lift heavy weights such as vehicles. Accident occurred on the 3d of January, 2014 in Silver City. The pilot reported that he lowered the landing gear and observed gear-down indications before touchdown; however, the landing gear collapsed during the landing. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that all three landing gears had collapsed; no anomalies in the extension/retraction linkage were found. It is possible that the nose landing gear did not fully extend and lock down before landing due to either the inoperative limit switch or a slight misreading of the system. However, because the landing gear was operated by the transmission JACKSCREW, it is unlikely that an issue with the nose landing gear would have caused a collapse of the main landing gear if the main landing gear was fully extended and locked in the down position. The reason for the landing gear collapse could not be determined. There were no injuries.

Break phrasal verbs which can be used in aviation context (for the 5th level) BREAK DOWN (сломаться) to fail to work The switcher broke down and we couldn't activate the system. BREAK INTO (ворваться в) to break into is to get into by force The hijackers broke into the cockpit and demanded to change the route of the flight. BREAK UP to divide smth into smaller pieces (разбиваться) The fuselage was broken up into 2 parts after crash landing. unable to hear smb when you’re talking on the phone(связь прерывается) Could you repeat that, please? It’s a bad line and you’re breaking up. BREAK OUT to start unexpectedly(разразиться, начаться) Thunderstorm broke out in the vicinity of the airport.

TO NO AVAIL- without result. E.g. The pilots tried to relight the affected engine but to no avail. He made several attempts to enter Flight Academy but all of them were to no avail. P.S. Read the article with this phrase in comments.

Forced landing is a situation where an aircraft unavoidably needs to land, usually regardless of terrain. For instance, a plane lost all engines and had to execute a forced landing on the highway. Sometimes forced landings are not related to emergency.For example, pilots performed a forced landing following a military interception. Precautionary landing is a situation where further flight is possible but inadvisable. It can be connected with technical malfunctions(which don't require Mayday call) or adverse weather. For instance, pilots performed a precaitionary landing due to gradualy developing engine trouble. The difference between PRECAUTIONARY LANDING and FORCED LANDING is that in first case flightcrew has the right to continue the flight whilst in the second case there is no such option.

 BRAWL is a rough or noisy fight or quarrel. Air France suspended two pilots who started a BRAWL in the cockpit of Airbus A320 in June 2021 during a flight from Geneva to Paris.  The fight ensued after the copilot refused to comply with certain instructions, and was grabbed by the collar and possibly slapped by the captain. The fight was resolved after a flight attendant intervened and separated the pilots. 

HALF MEASURE is an action or policy that is not forceful or decisive enough. August 7, IndiGo flight 6E 556 from Jaipur to Bengaluru was involved in a bomb-threat emergency. Shortly before landing, a handwritten message was found in a toilet that said a bomb was onboard. The BDDS, dog squad and other security personnel searched the aircraft on landing, but no bomb was found. All passengers were required to supply a sample of their handwriting, which was sent to forensic specialists for examination. There are no HALF MEASURES when bomb threats are received, and on both occasions, Indian authorities have handled the issue in a textbook way.

Let's revise some vocabulary from the previous posts)

The procedure is relatively simple: run the engine on a mixture of preservative and mineral oil, coat the inside of the cylinders with that mixture, and then seal off any air intakes with silica gel bags. Engine preservation is made for a long term storage of it.

When UP AND RUNNING, this airport will reduce congestion at the existing airport. This programme is UP AND RUNNING, you may make use of it. The airway between these two capitals is UP AND RUNNING.

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