Weather, natural disasters

− What weather conditions are considered to be hazardous?

− Discuss the causes and possible effects of natural disasters.

− Have you ever seen any of these disasters: earthquakes, volcanic eruption, flooding, severe thunder storms, hurricanes, tsunami, cyclones, hailstones, droughts?

− Have there been any natural disasters in your country?

− If so, what happened? What damage was caused?

− Have you ever had a good or bad experience as a result of the weather? If so, describe what happened.

7. Animals, bird risk

− What methods of wildlife control do you know?

− What wildlife (birds, animals) can be hazardous to aircraft operations?

− Have you ever had a bird strike (bird ingestion)? With what results?

Transport. Vehicle

− What can you say about ground movement incidents: vehicles on the field, collisions, vehicle breakdown, aircraft damage caused by airport vehicles?

− What about FOD (foreign object damage)?

− How can debris on RWY affect the aircraft operation?

− What problems linked to activities on the field can cause departure delays?

− Have you ever had ground movement incidents? What happened? How was the problem resolved?

Dangerous goods

− What goods are considered to be dangerous?

− What are the regulations of dangerous goods transport?

− What can you say about veterinary services, police search, sniffer dogs for inspecting dangerous goods?

10. Terrorism prevention

− What are the motives for aircraft hijacking now?

− How have hijacking motives changed since the earlier incidents?

− What are the most effective means of deterring hijacking?

− What security systems do you know? Are they efficient to prevent terrorism?

Pilot-controller communication

− What aviation accidents which were caused by pilot-controller misunderstanding do you know?

− What were the main reasons for these accidents?

− What are the reasons for pilot-controller misunderstanding?

− What are the main linguistic problems?

− How to prevent linguistic problems?

− What can you say about controller-pilot communication problems at present?

− Have you ever had pilot-controller misunderstanding? What was it caused by?

− What are the main reasons for miscommunication? How to avoid it?

− Discuss phrases causing difficulties in pilot-controller communications based on your experience.