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​Hey there! 🌸🌸🌸 Let’s continue talking about the types of mistakes we make in our English! 🟩Mechanical mistakes are made in writing (punctuation, capitalization and spelling) and they are common not only for learners but for natives, too! Very frequently, such mistakes are nothing but the result of being too fast - quick writing where the focus is on the content rather than the form. I make such mistakes very often on my stories when I’m in a hurry.... like everybody does. To fight this disease, we must be more attentive! And use some computer spellcheck. Such errors seldom interfere with meaning but they negatively influence the overall impression we would like to create. 🟨Spelling mistakes are made in words, e.g.: “reer” instead of “rear”. Again, everybody makes such things, even native speakers. They almost never change the meaning but create that negative impression 😭 we’d like to avoid. How to deal with them? Be more diligent, accurately check the text, read extensively. The more you read, the less mistakes appear. 🟪Punctuation mistakes are connected with commas, full stops and other signs in writing. Pilots or ATCs do not write quite often but still sometimes you need to drop a few lines! Such mistakes are the result of NOT understanding of what we write that causes either: - fragments (incomplete sentences); - run-ons ('sentences' that do not end when they should). Reading is to help you fight! I hope, it was useful 🤓 Please, share what kind of mistakes you normally make. I’ll try to advise smth! 🍀 [The article is prepared with the help of esl.fis.edu] #aveng_problems

​Hello there! 😻 To those ones who haven’t flown recently 🥺 as a reminder 🤓 There are a lot classifications as to this topic. Mine is based on the numerous articles found in the authentic sources as EASA, Eurocontrol, NTSB, etc. I tried to make it as detailed as possible: 1. Flight planning 2. Pre-departure (pre-flight) 3. 🚀Engine start. Points 1-3 are also referred to as standing because they are performed when an airplane doesn’t move - it is stationary. 4. Pushback (aircraft is moving assisted by a tow vehicle or tug). Taxi-out (aircraft is moving on the aerodrome surface by its own power prior to takeoff). 5. 🛫Takeoff (from the application of takeoff power through rotation and to an altitude of 35 feet above the RWY elevation) Rejected takeoff (from the point where the decision to abort has been taken until the aircraft begins to taxi from the RWY). 6. Climb (initial climb - until reaching 1000 feet above the RWY elevation or prescribed power reduction; followed by en route climb). 7. 💺Cruise (any level flight segment after arrival at initial cruise altitude until the start of descent). 8. Descent (from IAF to beginning of landing flare). 9. Approach (initial and final) or go-around (from the first application of power after the crew decides to execute a missed approach until the aircraft re-enters the sequence). 10. 🛬Landing (from the beginning of landing flare until aircraft exits the landing RWY or comes to stop on the RWY. Taxi-in (aircraft is moving on the aerodrome surface by its own power after landing). 11. Engine shutdown 12. ✈️Post-flight If you liked this post, share it with a friend. 🤲🏻 Next aviation topic will be “critical phases of flight”. If you want to read about them, let me know putting 💙✈️➕👍🏻 etc. Safe flights! 🍀 #aveng_leveltest #aveng_vocab

​Hello, darlings! 💙✈️ Some time ago, I promised you a post about mistakes and their nature! Et voila! ⤵️ A mistake is an action or opinion that is not correct, or it produces the result you did not want (Oxford Dictionary). In English, while learning, we come across the following mistakes: - 🟦grammar - 🟩usage - 🟪spelling (in writing) - 🟧punctuation (in writing) - 🟥mechanical 🟦Grammar Mistakes e.g.: I am here since 2 weeks. (I have been here for 2 weeks). These mistakes are typical for non-natives because their mother tongue interferes with the production (speaking/writing) of English. We directly translate from our language but it’s 50/50 that our translation hits the target.... 💭Most Common Gram Mistakes: - I am working for this airline. (I work). - Me told about this emergency (I was told about this...). - I am agree! (I agree). - I don’t afraid this. (I am not afraid of this), etc.... To eliminate grammar mistakes, practice online! Google “grammar tests” - and choose the ones you like! It’s easy, it’s free, it’s useful! *** 🟩Usage Mistakes e.g.: An airline pilot workplace is in the cabin. (cockpit) These are the mistakes grammatically possible and/or correct but not usual in English. Very often they are wrong collocations (wrong phrases in Eng: strong rain - heavy rain) or false friends: German kontrollieren - check (not control); Russian аккуратный - tidy (not accurate); Ukrainian техніка - equipment (not technique); Turkish keten - flax plant (not cotton), etc. They will disappear if you listen/read/watch in Eng enough. If you don’t know how to say about smth, look it up in the collocation dictionary online, it won’t show you “strong rain” but will “heavy/torrential/pouring/driving rain”. If you want to know about the 3 types of mistakes I haven’t mentioned yet, please, let me know in the comments putting a ➕ or ❤️. The more you learn, the fewer mistakes you make 🍀

​Hello, guys! 💙✈️ It’s high time to find out what exactly we should know about grammar to get the necessary level! 1️⃣ All structures are dived into 2 groups - basic and complex. 2️⃣ For level 4, you should control the basic structures well, use them creatively, and only a few “light” 🤓 mistakes can be made, especially in some unexpected communications. 3️⃣ For level 5, you should not make mistakes in the basic structures, you should use them creatively, and only a few errors (not interfering with meaning) are possible in the complex ones. . ✔️Basic Structures: ✖️Articles (a/an/the) ✖️Comparisons (good - better - the best) ✖️Modal Verbs (can, may, should, would, etc) ✖️Passive (simple present and past) ✖️Tenses (present simple/continuous/perfect/perfect continuous; past simple/continuous; will/going to) ✖️There is/are, was/were . ✔️Complex ✖️Adjectives (totally amazed; angry about; afraid of; too busy; the sooner the better, etc) ✖️Adverbs (frankly, fortunately, morally, as much as, owing to, etc) ✖️Clauses (Opening his eye, the pilot saw a face) ✖️Conditionals (0,1,2,3) ✖️Infinitive vs Gerund ✖️Uncountable nouns with no article (good advice - 2 pieces of advice) ✖️Passive (present perfect/past; all perfect forms) ✖️ Questions (negative; tag) ✖️ Pronouns (himself; themselves; one - ones) ✖️ Reported speech ✖️ Tenses (Past perfect/perfect continuous; future: present and future continuous/perfect/future seen from the past) . ➕Discourse markers 4: actually, basically, let me see, oh, you see, of course, by the way, on top of that, first/second/third, first of all, etc. . ➕Discourse markers 5: Mind you, on the whole, by and large, certainly, I do understand, on the one/other hand, however, nevertheless, although, in spite of, to start with, in conclusion, etc. # This is only a brief (abridged) list of what you should know well, guys! # Put in the comment below your current levels - 4️⃣ or 5️⃣??? # See you on the runway 💕🤓 #aveng_grammar #aveng_leveltest

​Hello there! How are you doing?💙✈️ * Let’s see which 10 words (verbs🤓) starting with DE- are my top in Aviation English! 1. to describe We have a sick passenger on board, he has a bad backache. - Ok, describe his symptoms. 2. to depict This photo depicts a situation called a runway incursion, as there are 2 objects: a ground vehicle and an airplane on the RWY. 3. to decide A captain is to decide whether to continue the flight or to deviate from the route to any alternate. 4. to demolish (to ruin) Such natural disasters as tornadoes demolish everything on their way. 5. to deplane (to disembark) As soon as our security officers finish the interrogations you will be allowed to deplane and enter the JFK terminal. 6. to debrief The captain had to debrief the crew after their last leg. 7. to detach One of the plastic bulkheads was detached from the main structure by the maintenance engineer. It had multiple cracks. 8. to depressurise (to lose pressure) Once the cabin is completely depressurised, we will be able to work with the necessary data. 9. to demur (to refuse, formal) The Line Pilots Association demurred at first, but later they agreed on the issue. 10. to destabilize A failure to go around, if an approach was destabilized, can be fatal. * Choose 1 word and create your own example in the comments!🙏🏻 Safe flights! ❤️ #aveng_vocab

2 test-pilots crash-landed in Odessa on the 17th of June. One of the pilots died instantly, at the scene, the other one - at the hospital. As eyewitnesses report, the ambulance arrived only 20 min after the call. The airplane, Y1 Delphin, produced by the State Enterprise “ODESSA AIRCRAFT PLANT" was undergoing its certification. According to the initial reports, the engine failed right after take-off at the low altitude. Forensics are going to show the true reason for the catastrophe and categorise the occurrence. Some rumours as to the captain’s incapacitation are unlikely to be true given the experience of the pilots. Both of them were born in 1955, the captain was a retired colonel, the first officer was not less seasoned test-pilot. *** Pay your close attention to the following phrases: to crash-land to die instantly at the scene as eyewitnesses report to undergo the certification the initial report forensics are unlikely to be true given smth a retired colonel a seasoned pilot *** Safe flights, guys! ✈️ #aveng_vocab

​Hello, my aviation junkies! 🤓 Hope, you are safe and sound! Today we are refreshing some important things that might be forgotten due to 🕓 long hours on the ground! ABNORMAL RUNWAY CONTACT (ARC) - is any landing or takeoff involving abnormal runway or landing surface contact. It is an occurrence category. Examples: • hard/heavy landings, long/fast landings, off-centre landings or misalignments, crabbed landings, nose wheel first touchdown, tail strikes, and wingtip/nacelle strikes; sometimes gear-up landings. Source: icao.int So, please, remember this definition and use it with pleasure! See you on the runway soon! 💙✈️ Stay safe and healthy! #aveng_vocab

​Hello friends! 🤓 Hope, you are doing great! As you have seen, we are going to discuss how our poor reading skills influence our 🤷🏻‍♀️ speaking. I’m thankful to @polski_zapraszam Pania Ania (a teacher of Polish🇵🇱) for the inspiration 💕! * So, guys, we should not underestimate reading. We read a lot in aviation, but we do that silently, 🔇not out loud. And if we don’t know how to pronounce a sound/word, we nevertheless understand it. But.... if we don’t read correctly it leads us to mispronouncing words. As a result, a funny situation 😁, or, in the worst case, a misunderstanding. In my practice, I have met only a few students who could say “technician” and “entrepreneur” correctly at once. Students mispronounce these words not because of their pronunciation problem but because they don’t know simple 📚 reading rules. What about reading consonant digraphs (2 letters giving 1 sound) ph, th, ch, sh, wh? Can you read them correctly? And vowel digraphs oa, ai, ea, au? Make sure you know them! Then comes soft C and hard C. And words: cent, circular, cyclone (soft); cowling, crust, cumulus (hard). * Hard G and soft G: gel, gigantic, gym (soft), and gas, yoghurt, growth (hard). * And ch in the words of French origin (champagne) vs of Greek/Latin (technical)... 🙏🏻 Please, double check the reading rules. Open any article on the Internet, but be careful: American 🇺🇸 and British 🇬🇧 rules are different, just like football😅, so stick to one version, please! Safe flights! See you! 💙✈️ #aveng_tips

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