1. ICAO LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN ITALY
Marco Silanos
ENAC, Airspace Services Certification Director
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Rome, 3-5 March 2010

2. LPR Status
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3. GENERAL Awareness: meetings with stakeholders (including Unions),
workshops, newsletters, policy notes
Promulgation: JAR FCL1 Emdt 7 and JAR FCL 2 emdt 6
ATCO Reg in 2006 & D.Lgvo 118/2008
(A)FIS Reg by summer 2010 (replacing DPR566/88)
National Coordinator: ENAC (Eleonora Italia)
Implementation Plan: first in march 2008
last update in september 2009
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4. Test & Training Pilot Licence Test selected through EU competition
Test developed by Mayflower College (TEA)
FTO, TRTO, Operator and Lang School as test centers
LPR examiners certified and standardised by ENAC
Test developer standardised by ENAC
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5. Test & Training ATCO Licence Italian Air Force Test exported to ENAV
TPT ENAV approved by ENAC in April 2009 i.c.w. Doc 9835
Covers phraseology,conversional & plain language
Checks Level 3,4,5
ANSP Test examiners / specific reqs to be met
Training and test now included in ab initio courses
Itinerant commission
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6. Difficulties Pilot ATS Large amount of tests to be taken in 12 months
Mutual recognition of the demonstration of proficiency
No continuous training
ATS
(A)FIS Operators to be tested
No continuous training but ITAF
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7. ? ANY QUESTIONS ?
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