Question

1. Answer the questions according to the text.


a) What is an airplane prefix?



b) What are the letters to identify a commercial airplane and how are the said in the alphabet of aviation?


c) What language are the words of aviation from?


d) What other instituions use the alphabet of aviation?


e) How can a piot of the plane PT YMS request permission to land?

Answer 1

1) a) An airplane prefix is the name of an airplane, formed by a group of five letters.

b) The letters that identify a commercial airplane are PP, wich in the alphabet of aviation would be said "Papa Papa".

c) These words are taken from a number of languages such as English, French, Greek, Latin, and Spanish.

d) The Armed Forces (the Navy, the Army and the Air Force) also use this alphabet.

e) He would say: "Control tower, this is Papa Tango Yankee Mike Sierra"