1. ICAO codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation.

ИКАО законодательно закрепляет принципы и методы международной аэронавигации.

2. The organization constantly improves aviation’s successful safety performance and maintains a high level of efficiency.

Организация постоянно совершенствует успешные показатели безопасности авиации и способствует обеспечению высокого уровня эффективности.

3. ICAO strives to implement practical and achievable measures to improve safety and efficiency in all sectors of the air transportation system.

ИКАО стремится к осуществлению конкретных и достижимых мер по повышению безопасности и эффективности во всех секторах системы воздушного транспорта.

4. Most air accident investigations are carried out by an agency of a country that is associated in some way with the accident.

Большинство расследований авиационных происшествий осуществляется агентством государства, которое каким-либо образом связано с аварией.

5. To ensure the safe and efficient worldwide aviation operation ICAO has developed technical specifications forming the basis for uniform rules and procedures.

Для обеспечения безопасной и эффективной международной авиационной деятельности ИКАО разработала технические спецификации, составляющие основу единых правил и процедур.

IX. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English.

1. Ясно, что невозможно обеспечить безопасный полет без международного сотрудничества.

It is clear that ensuring of a safe flight is impossible without international cooperation.

2. ИКАО была создана в 1944 г. на Конференции 52 наций в Чикаго.

ICAO was created in 1944 at a conference of 52 nations held in Chicago.

3. ИКАО решает много проблем, но главная из них - безопасность полетов.

ICAO solves many problems, but the main of them is flight safety.

4. Основная задача ИКАО – стандартизировать оборудование и технику, используемые в воздушной навигации над территориями ее стран – участников.

The main purpose of ICAO is to standardize the equipment and operational techniques used in air navigation over the territories of its member-states.

5. Существуют общие правила полета и процедуры, которые все страны – участники должны соблюдать.

There are common rules of flight operations and procedures that all member-states have to observe.

6. ИКАО много делает для подготовки и тренировки авиационных специалистов, как пилотов, так и диспетчеров.

IСAO is also doing much to prepare and train aviation specialists both pilots and controllers.

Контрольная работа №4

Active vocabulary

1. Double - deck двухуровневый, двухъярусный

2. Cabin - кабина

3. Requirement – требование, необходимое условие

4. Debris – обрезки, обломки, осколки

5. Slat - предкрылок (вспомогательная аэродинамическая поверхность на передней кромке крыла самолета)

6. Liquid crystal display - жидкокристаллический дисплей

7. Expand – расширять, увеличивать в объеме, в размерах

8. Reinforce - укреплять, усиливать

9. Data - данные, факты, информация

10. Logbook - журнал для служебных записей

I. Read the text

The Airbus A380

The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus. It is the world's largest passenger airliner and, due to its size, many airports have had to expand their facilities to properly accommodate it. The A380 made its entered initial commercial service in October 2007.

The A380's upper deck extends along the entire length of the fuselage, with a width equivalent to a wide-body aircraft. A380’s cabin provides seating for 525 people in a typical class configuration or up to 853 people in all-economy class configurations.                                                        

Engines.

Noise reduction was an important requirement in the A380 design, and particularly affects engine design. Engine types allow the aircraft to achieve QC/2 departure and QC/0.5 arrival noise limits under the Quota Count system set by London Heathrow Airport.

The two outboard engines do not have reversers, reducing the amount of debris stirred up during landing. The A380 has electrically actuated thrust reversers, giving the aircraft better reliability than their pneumatic or hydraulic equivalents, in addition to saving weight.

Advanced materials.

Most of the fuselage is aluminium, composite materials comprise more than 20% of the A380's airframe. Carbon-fibre reinforced plastic, glass-fibre reinforced plastic and quartz-fibre reinforced plastic are used extensively in wings, fuselage sections (such as the undercarriage and rear end of fuselage), tail surfaces, and doors. The A380 is the first commercial airliner to have a central wing box made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic. Thermoplastics are used in the leading edges of the slats.

Avionics.

The A380 employs Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) architecture, first used in advanced military aircraft. The IMA suite is a technological innovation, with networked computing modules to support different applications.

 Airbus used similar cockpit layout, procedures and handling characteristics to other Airbus aircraft, reducing crew training costs. The A380 has an improved glass cockpit, using fly-by-wire flight controls linked to side-sticks. The cockpit displays feature eight 15-by-20 cm liquid crystal displays, all physically identical and interchangeable; comprising two Primary Flight Displays, two navigation displays, one engine parameter display, one system display and two Multi-Function Displays. The MFDs were introduced on the A380 to provide an easy-to-use interface to the flight management system—replacing three multifunction control and display units.

The Network Systems Server (NSS) is the heart of A380's paperless cockpit; it eliminates bulky manuals and charts traditionally used. The A380's network and server system stores data and offers electronic documentation, providing a required equipment list, navigation charts, performance calculations, and an aircraft logbook.