1. Do We Understand
Each Other Better?

2. Do We Understand Each Other Better?
English language proficiency requirements: ATCO’s point of view
Standard Phraseologies
Non-standard situations
Personal experience
Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

3. Do We Understand Each Other Better?
Level 4. – Is it enough?
Yes for most non-standard situations
Some situations require higher level
Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

4. Do We Understand Each Other Better?
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”
Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

5. Do We Understand Each Other Better?
Maintaining Level 4
Podcasts
Audio Example.
listen-to-english.com
Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

6. Do We Understand Each Other Better?
Maintaining Level 4
Seminars with pilots
Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

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

8. Do We Understand Each Other Better?
Maintaining Level 4
Familiarization flights
Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

9. Do We Understand Each Other Better?
Maintaining Level 4
Seminars with ATC colleagues
Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

10. Do We Understand Each Other Better?
Maintaining Level 4
International projects
Refresher courses
Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

11. Do We Understand Each Other Better?
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).
Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

12. Do We Understand Each Other Better?
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
Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

13. Do We Understand Each Other Better?
Summary
Today foreign pilots and Russian ATCOs understand each other better than a few years ago.
Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

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

15. Do We Understand Each Other Better?
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.
Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

16. Do We Understand Each Other Better?
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.
Elmar Alexandrov, St.Petersburg ATS Center

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