Aviation English | ATC & Pilots

ICAO 291 - 2 to 5 weeks per level

This course aims to enable aviation students to successfully pass international exams in Aviation English and achieve a minimum level 4 of the ICAO requirements.

The course places an emphasis on listening comprehension, and spoken interaction .

We provide language proficiency training assessment for both; English and Spanish based on ICAO DOC. 9835.

During the training, the trainee will be exposed to carefully sequenced selection of training materials giving progressive, systematic knowledge of, and practice in, the radio-telephony and technical language used by the international aviation community. The trainee will develop the English communication skills, based on ICAO language proficiency in order to provide an effective ATS service.

The course includes theoretical and practical instruction in the following:

• Lexis and Radiotelephony Phraseology specific to Aviation English
• Basic Past, Present, Future and Perfect Tenses; Conditionals, Interrogative and Negative Verb Forms
• Simple Sequencing and the Giving and Following of Clear Directions and Instructions
• Verbal and Aural Performance
• Immediate Verbal Feedback Skills
• Correction
• Listening and Speaking Drills and Role-plays
• Intensive Listening
• Oral/Aural Drills
• Listening for essential message and Intensive Skills
• Listening for Specific Information
• Decoding of Visual Information into Oral Instructions
• Turning Spoken Information into Written Summaries Operational Language
• Basic Operating Procedures
• Numbers
• Establishing Communication
• Phonetic Alphabet
• Abbreviation of Procedure
• Readback
• Correction
• Transfer of Communication
• Aerodrome Information
• Surface Movement and Takeoff
• Departing Flights
• En Route Instructions
• ATC Phraseology
• Distress and Urgency Messages
• Examples of non-standard Phraseologies
• RTF Accents

Duration of the Training: Academic studies reveal the time required for significant progress to be made by any given language learner and also the considerable differences in the rates at which different people learn language. There is a consensus in current academic research that approximately 200 hours is required for a learner to make significant progress, e.g. to move from a mid-to-upper ICAO Level 3 to an Operational Level 4. Moreover, for many individuals, considerably more time may be required – possibly as much as 400 hours – to make the same progress.