IV. Answer the following questions. The answers should contain the underlined words.

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III. Find the synonyms to the words.

II. Substitute the phrases with appropriate word or word combination.

I. New vocabulary.

FUEL PROBLEMS

UNIT 9

· Fuel capacity

· Fuel consumption

· Fuel gauge

· Fuel hose / pipe

· Fuel pump

· Fuel pipe deficiencies

· Fuel shortage/ short of fuel

· Fuel starvation

· Fuel exhaustion

· Fuel contamination

· Fuel imbalance

· Fuel leak

· Fuel remaining

· Endurance

· To run out of fuel

· To burn out fuel

· To perform fuel dumping/ jettisoning

· To fuel the aircraft/to fill the aircraft

· Measuring units

· Cross fuel procedure

· Out of wind landing

· Excessive fuel consumption

· To loiter

· To cease

· To land ahead of aircraft

· To perform ditching/ to ditch

· To equalize the fuel

· To transfer fuel/ to pump fuel

· To deploy a ram air turbine

· To glide

· Paramount importance

· To impair/ to deteriorate

· To be clogged

1. fuel measuring system

2. general content of fuel tanks

3. to activate

4. to make the fuel equal

5. to delay, to be slow

6. to make worse

7. to finish fuel

8. fuel pipe deficiency

9. penetration of dirt into the fuel

10. great importance

11. exceeding the normal or permitted limits

12. remaining of fuel in hours

13.

- fuel pipe

- short of fuel

- fuel dumping

- to transfer fuel

- to activate

- to impair

- defect

- to fuel aircraft

- to stop

1. What is the fuel capacity of your aircraft?

2. What can fuel starvation be caused by?

3. What can contaminate the fuel?

4. Which areas are considered restricted for fuel jettisoning?

5. What may be the reasons of excessive fuel consumption?

6. Can you name the causes when pilots performed successful ditching?

7. What does possible distance that the aircraft can glide depend on?

8. What can deteriorate fuel flow?

9. What may be the reasons of fuel imbalance?

10. Have you ever faced with running out of fuel?

11. What can cause engines cease operating?

12. Why is weather of paramount importance for flight?