FAA and pilots, ATCs English proficiency
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FAA and pilots, ATCs English proficiency
Hello all.
How many of pilots and ATCs crossing your had proper conduct of ENGLISH?
It seems FAA has an idea (ICAO including) and consequently they are taking sort of an action related to that:
FAA backs development of device to test pilots’ English
A US company is co-operating with the US Federal Aviation Administration to create a device that will test pilots’ and air traffic controllers’ aviation English proficiency automatically. The spur is the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s requirement for specified standards in aviation English to be achieved by all professional pilots and controllers worldwide by March 2008.
The research, says the FAA, is “to develop an automated test that both supports ICAO in establishing a global standard, and also applies US technology to the otherwise long, arduous and costly process of testing many tens of thousands of pilots and controllers.” The company developing the equipment is California-based Ordinate, which has signed an agreement to work with the FAA Academy’s Aviation Language Training Programme. Manager of the FAA’s Technology Transfer Programme, Deborah Germak, says the agency is not funding the research, and Ordinate will cover any of the FAA Academy’s costs.
How many of pilots and ATCs crossing your had proper conduct of ENGLISH?
It seems FAA has an idea (ICAO including) and consequently they are taking sort of an action related to that:
FAA backs development of device to test pilots’ English
A US company is co-operating with the US Federal Aviation Administration to create a device that will test pilots’ and air traffic controllers’ aviation English proficiency automatically. The spur is the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s requirement for specified standards in aviation English to be achieved by all professional pilots and controllers worldwide by March 2008.
The research, says the FAA, is “to develop an automated test that both supports ICAO in establishing a global standard, and also applies US technology to the otherwise long, arduous and costly process of testing many tens of thousands of pilots and controllers.” The company developing the equipment is California-based Ordinate, which has signed an agreement to work with the FAA Academy’s Aviation Language Training Programme. Manager of the FAA’s Technology Transfer Programme, Deborah Germak, says the agency is not funding the research, and Ordinate will cover any of the FAA Academy’s costs.
Sounds good, perhaps a sort of instant Babelfish for Eliza Doolittle and Tony Soprano. Hopefully it'll spread, pity it had to come from the US, would've been better from one of those places whose English everyone can understand, eg Denmark, Holland, Switzerland. Or even Inverness.
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License Restriction
I personally saw a FAA Fllight Engineer's License that was give to a Thai that had a restriction that read "Thai Speaking Cockpit Only". Not a pleasant thought.
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English proficiency requirement
Does anyone know what airlines are doing about complying with ICAO's language proficiency requirement from March 2008? Are they developing their own tests etc.?
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