Exercise 4.

Work in pairs. See the dialogues below and fill in the controller’s words. Cancel or stop take-off due to different reasons given in the table below. Practise the dialogues in pairs several times.

Example:

TWR: Qantas 346, cleared for take-off, report airborne.

ACFT: Cleared for take-off, wilco, Qantas 346.

TWR: Qantas 346, take -off immediately or vacate runway, emergency traffic.

ACFT: Taking off (or’vacating runway’), Qantas 346.

 

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1) TWR: …

ACFT: Cleared for take-off, Algerie 291.

TWR: …

ACFT: Holding, Algerie 291.

 

2) TWR: …

ACFT: Cleared for take-off, Air Malta 102.

TWR: …

ACFT: Stopping, Air Malta 102.

 

3) TWR: …

ACFT: Cleared for take-off, Tunis Air 004.

TWR: …

ACFT: Stopping, Tunis Air 004.

 

4) TWR: …

ACFT: Cleared for take-off, Turkish 510.

TWR: …

ACFT: Taking off, Turkish 510.

 

5) TWR: …

ACFT: Cleared for take-off, Austrian 601.

TWR: …

ACFT: Vacating runway, Austrian 601.

6) TWR: …

ACFT: Cleared for take-off, Speedbird 303.

TWR: …

ACFT: Holding, Speedbird 303.

 

7) TWR: …

ACFT: Cleared for take-off, Kuwaiti 595.

TWR: …

ACFT: Stopping, Kuwaiti 595.

 

8) TWR: …

ACFT: Cleared for take-off, Iran Air 100.

TWR: …

ACFT: Holding, Iran Air 100.