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Langen, Germany 6 -7 September, 2007 By Captain Rick Valdes IFALPA representative to ICAOs PRICE SG
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
IFALPAS policy on PRICE Study Group PRICE Study Group members ICAO PRICE Study Group mission Intent of the new Annexes The English language can be difficult at times. ICAO document 9835
ICAO, in Attachment B to Volume II of Annex 10, acknowledges the need for a universal radiotelephony language and tacitly implies that it will have to be English.
IFALPA has no national, ethnic or linguistic bias, but recognizes that if there is to be a single aviation language, this must be from a practical point of view, be English.
PRICE SG MEMBERS
EUROCONTROL IATA ICAO IFALPA IFATCA NAVCANADA U.K. CAA U.S. FAA ARGENTINA, CHINA, FRANCE, JAPAN, RUSSIA, UKRAINE.
ICAO PRICE SG
Established to assist the Secretariat in drafting proposal for the amendment of ICAO provisions relating to English Language proficiency. Ensure that air traffic control personnel and flight crews, engaged in flight operations in airspace where the use of the English language is required, are proficient in conducting and comprehending communications in the English language.
ICAO ACCREDITATION
Presently ICAO has NO accreditation program in place in order to certify any school training or testing programs.
Establishes and defines all the language proficiency requirements, holistic descriptors and rating scales
Provides guidance in the development, management, design, and administration of licensing tests (initial and recurrent).
Establishes qualifications for test development, management, design and administration teams.
Best practice would provide a language rater and a pilot to rate the speech of pilots, and a language rater and an operational controller to rate the speech of controllers.
ICAO PHRASEOLOGY
CAUTION!
DO NOT allow your training program to teach how to pass the tests.. SAFETY, is why the ICAO requirements were created.
Thank you,