✈️Aviation English

2022-05-22 20:36:48 Recently a colleague of mine addressed me with a question "I have come across the phrase in RT - Request ride report. What does it mean?"
Frankly speaking I have never heard such one in RT.
We cross-referenced a lot of materials and found out that "ride report" is the same as PIREP. "Ride report" is mainly used in the USA.

PIREP is a pilot's report of the actual weather conditions as encountered by an aircraft in flight.

-Tornados, funnel clouds or waterspouts
-Severe or extreme turbulence (including CAT)
-Severe icing
-Hail
-Low-Level Windshear which is defined as fluctuations of more than 10 kts of airspeed
-Volcanic ash clouds
-Any other weather which the weather specialist may deem hazardous or potentially hazardous to flying.

Pilots encountering any of these phenomena can contribute to the safety of flight for other aircraft by reporting the time, location and intensity of the encountered threat. Open / Comment

2022-05-20 23:27:18 Aviation safety culture is described as reflecting the real commitment (обязательство, приверженность, политика, ответственное отношение) to safety, or how people act "when no one is watching".
Its 5 key elements are listed in the quizzes above. Open / Comment

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2022-05-15 17:38:27 We define downtime as a time when employees are involuntarily idle in their work tasks, due to equipment or technological malfunction, project bottlenecks, or a lower volume of work.

E.g.

Unfortunately a lot of ATCs suffer downtime nowadays.

Commercial pilots blame pandemic downtime for in-flight mistakes Open / Comment

2022-05-12 12:26:28 China's Tibet Airlines Airbus A319 plane caught fire after an aborted takeoff in the southwestern city of Chongqing on the 12th of May, 2022.

There were no fatalities but some passengers sustained minor injuries. They suffered bruises and sprains during the evacuation and were sent to local hospitals for examination.


The pilots had interrupted the takeoff in line with procedures after experiencing an abnormality, leading to an engine scrape and fire after the plane veered off the runway.

A passenger said there was a sudden vibration and oxygen masks lowered before the plane made an unusual sound and VEERED OFF the runway.

Crew members noticed that fuel oil was leaking and started evacuating passengers down slides. Fire soon broke out, forcing some passenger to jump from the aircraft.

Unverified photos on social media show both engines separated from the airframe as well as a major crack in the rear fuselage and damage to the right wing. https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Open / Comment

2022-05-10 22:11:23 "Augmented flight crew is a crew that comprises more than the minimum number required to operate the aeroplane and in which each flight crew member can leave their assigned post and be replaced by another appropriately qualified flight crew member for the purpose of in-flight rest." - International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Annex 6. Open / Comment