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Ab-initio flight training is showing some positive signs of recovery. The adequate supply of professional pilots will be one of the keys to rebuilding of a safe and sustainable airline industry over the next few years, and the need for appropriate aviation English training to equip students for success at flight school and their career beyond is as pressing as ever. This blog post explains what drives Latitude to publish aviation English training content to enable aspiring pilots to gain entry to the aviation industry, and sets out six challenges that we observe in this exciting area of English for specific purposes.
Radio communication between pilots and controllers features standard phraseology in the first instance and plain English when phraseology does not suffice. The two go together, hand-in-hand: safe and efficient radiotelephony relies on both. In this blog, we explain why it is so important for ICAO English tests to directly address radiotelephony communication, and we explore some of the reasons why radiotelephony is conspicuously absent in much aviation language testing today.
