Teaching trainee pilot English

[JamieP]

Hi,


I'm an English teacher in Bangkok and I have a student who is a trainee pilot.

Up till now I've been working on his general English skills but in his initial interview at the school he expressed a desire to work on some job specific language as well.

I plan to work on the phonetic alphabet, but I have some other questions, are numbers pronounced in any special way (9 = niner)?

Is there somewhere I can find short transcripts of communications between aircraft and ATC?

I'd welcome any advice or tips.

[acuba 290]

i think you need to have some communication study book; everything there explained

[hvogt]

Hello JamieP

You might want to check the International Civil Aviation Organization's Manual of Radotelephony (http://dcaa.slv.dk:8000/icaodocs/Doc%209432%20-%20Manual%20of%20Radiotelephony/DOC%209432%20-%204%20ed.%202007.pdf).

[preduk]

You could also try getting your student to listen to LiveATC and see how he gets on with that:

www.liveatc.net (http://www.liveatc.net)

[JamieP]

Thanks for the links.

I've found some material that I can use quite well.