Do We Understand Each Other Better?

English language proficiency requirements: ATCO’s point of view  Standard Phraseologies  Non-standard situations  Personal experience 2 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

Level 4. – Is it enough?  Yes for most non-standard situations  Some situations require higher level 3 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

Maintaining Level 4  Speaking and listening practice  Aviation-specific content “Use any opportunity to have speaking and listening practice and look fro aviation specific content” 4 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

Maintaining Level 4  Podcasts Audio Example. 5 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center listen-to-english.com

Maintaining Level 4  Seminars with pilots 6 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

Maintaining Level 4 Audio Example 2. A pilot requests QBB 7 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center METAR QBB Do you know the letters? What do they stand for? ACARS OCA

Maintaining Level 4  Familiarization flights 8 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

Maintaining Level 4  Seminars with ATC colleagues 9 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

Maintaining Level 4  International projects  Refresher courses 10 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

Maintaining Level 4 Most effective way of education and self-education: everyday listening to podcasts, a refresher course once a year, two-tree seminars a year with pilots of different airlines, a meeting with foreign ATC colleagues once a year, flights in the cockpit (perhaps once every two years). 11 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

Next generation of ATCOs  A person applying to be an ATCO has to be at level 4, preferably at level 5  No need to study phraseologies in the class as a special subject 12 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

Summary Today foreign pilots and Russian ATCOs understand each other better than a few years ago. 13 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

Summary Level 4 is quite enough for standard and most of non-standard situations, but sometimes level 5 is desirable. 14 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

Summary Language proficiency should be maintained with the help of various activities: listening to podcasts, refresher courses, seminars with foreign pilots and ATCOs, familiarization flights. 15 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

Summary Higher level of English language proficiency may be gradually achieved by proper selection of cadets for education and proper selection of employees for operational units followed by proper training. 16 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

17 Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center Thank you for attention