1. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. What is the most important problem in aviation?

2. What is the main task of aviation specialists?

3. By what means is safety ensured?

4. What factors may cause accidents?

5. What can you say about the role of language in the problem of safety?

6. Can radiotelephony alone cover all of the potential situations?

7. What is the main document ICAO?

8. What is the main task of SARPS?

2. Переведите слова, обращая внимание на словообразующие элементы:

terror – terrible – terribly – terrific

danger – dangerous – dangerously

care – careful – careless – carelessness

safe – safety – unsafe

prevent – preventive – prevention

collide – collision

special – specially – specialist – speciality – specialize – specialization

achieve – achievement

ensure – insurance

govern – governor – government – governmental

regular – regularly –regulation – regularity – irregular

differ – different – differently –difference

fail – failure

navigate – navigator – navigation – navigational

hazard – hazardous

know – knowledge – unknown

provide – provision – provider

relate – relation – relative – relatively – relativity

communicate – communication – communicative – community

sufficient – sufficiently – sufficiency – insufficient

proficient – proficiently – proficiency

necessary – necessarily – necessity – unnecessary

critical – critically – criticize – criticism – uncritical

close – closely

3. Переведите на английский язык:

1. Самая важная проблема в авиации – безопасность.

2. Для обеспечения безопасности полетов ИКАО установила специальные правила и процедуры.

3. Все государства – члены ИКАО должны строго соблюдать все правила и процедуры, принятые ИКАО.

4. Одна из самых задач авиационных специалистов – предотвращать столкновение самолетов в воздухе и на земле.

5. Достижения в технике, аэродинамике и других науках повышают авиационную безопасность.

6. Еще одним условием, обеспечивающим авиационную безопасность, является стандартизация во всех авиационных операциях.

7. Всем авиационным специалистам очень важно знать английский язык.

8. Хорошее знание английского языка необходимо для обеспечение безопасности полетов.

9. Причина катастрофы - человеческая ошибка.

10. Самолет не смог вылететь из-за опасных погодных условий.

11. Отказ двигателя привел к катастрофе.

12. В районе аэропорта аварийная ситуация.

13. Одна из главных задач ИКАО – обеспечивать необходимый уровень безопасности.

Text 4. Cellphones in flight? This means war!

Everyone who has a misfortune to fly commercially knows, air travel today is mind-bogglingly uncomfortable. The seats are small. The flights are nearly always full to overflowing. The food is unspeakable. The air is fetid and filled with germs. Many a time I board an airliner hale and hearty only to emerge with a raging pneumonia.

But there is one saving grace. Unless you are seated behind or next to really rude people – which happens surprisingly rarely – air travel is fairly quiet. Yes, the flight attendants stand around and talk. Yes, before the plane takes off people scream into their cellphones, but along about three hours, into the flight from, say, Kennedy to LAX, it’s pretty peaceful.

That’s solely because passengers can’t use cellphones aloft. That prohibition was one of the great decisions ever. Now, in a fit of idiocy, some airlines are suggesting that they be allowed to sell the use of cellphones in the air at nominal prices. This will mean yelling and screaming and boasting and complaining for almost all the time you’re sealed in that sardine can. The government is apparently planning to allow this anarchy.

Why? Well, for a long time, cellphone use was barred because safety experts worried they had the “potential” to interfere with navigation systems or сellphones on the ground – concerns that now, apparently because of technological advances, they no longer have. (The real reason for the ban, as I am told by airline personnel in secret, is that cellphone screeching made many passengers so crazy that flight attendants feared incidents of air rage).

The ban worked well. Now, in the rush to mine every penny they can from passengers, airlines plan to jettison that old excuse and, when planes are above 10,000 feet, let people holler into their cellphones, or maybe it will be the airlines’ cellphones.

This is rank madness. It will make most of us hide by listening to deafening music. (I recommend the live concert version of “Idiot Wind” on the “Hard Rain” disc of the immortal Bob Dylan to drown out the idiot winds of the people around you). It will make us retaliate by talking into our own cellphones. It will take what could have been a bearable experience and turn it into hell.

by Philip Anderson

CNN