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Obtaining a new flight crew licence after 5 March 2008
You will need at least a level four English proficiency to be issued a licence. This can be assessed when applying for your PPL licence or above by the ATO testing you. Level six English language proficiency assessors are limited to rating at level six only as the subtleties of the lower levels are difficult to define without intensive training. However, an approved language centre will be able to assess you at all levels. For more information on these approved language centres see Language centres. If you are assessed by a centre to have a level four English language proficiency or above, you can give this certification to your ATO, which they will send with your flight test to CASA.
Obtaining a Student Pilot Licence (SPL) after 5 March 2008
People applying for a Student Pilot Licence shall be assessed by the school’s Chief Flying Instructor (CFI), Approved Testing Officer (ATO) or a CASA Flight Operations Inspector (FOI) as having at least the minimum proficiency to communicate orally in the English language. Additionally the CFI, ATO or FOI will need to sight that the applicant pilot has one of the following documents having:
* The student’s undertaking or completion of his/her secondary education in an Australian, New Zealand educational institution or the equivalent of an Australian secondary education in a specified country; or
* The student having spent at least three in the past five years of employment in Australia, New Zealand or specified country; or
* The student meeting or exceeding the General English Test criteria specified in Civil Aviation Order (CAO) 40.0. For more information on these criteria see General English test criteria.
Level 6 assessors – Approved Testing Officers (ATO), Chief Pilots (CP), CAR 217 Check and Training Captains
CASA is recommending that Approved Testing Officers (ATO) continue their important role in assessing English language proficiency. As well, CASA is recommending that Chief Pilots and Check and Training Captains (C&TC) of international operations be trained to assess their company's flight crew's English language proficiency. Level six assessors will be able to assess level six English proficiency only, as the subtleties of the lower levels are difficult to define without intensive training. If a flight crew licence holder does not reach level six English proficiency, they need to be assessed at a CASA approved language centre. For more information on these approved language centres see Language centres.
To be a CASA approved English language proficiency assessor, firstly you must have a level six English language proficiency rating. CASA has developed a package to both assess and approve you for this role. The package comprises a self instructional book and a telephone interview. The self instructional book will include the ICAO standards and easy to follow examples and test questions which you can complete in your own time.
Once CASA has approved you to be an English language proficiency assessor, we will inform you of your approval and send you a copy of the instrument, which allows assessors to conduct assessment of English language proficiency at level six only. In addition CASA will hold a national seminar series at which you can discuss problems and talk with an approved language expert about any concerns or questions you may have on English language proficiency. Details of this seminar series will be posted on the CASA website in late 2007.