Features and benefits

Increased flight training efficiency and reduced cost: Foundation blended learning allows your students to get ready for flight training before they leave home. This not only improves flight training efficiency, but it reduces the costs of:

  • Flight training repeats and failures

  • Accommodation associated with delivery of language training once students have arrived at flight school.

Ease of access: Foundation blended learning students allows students in remote locations to access world-class aviation language training without the need to travel. This results in significant cost savings when compared to traditional classroom training.

Enhanced learning outcomes: Because each course is delivered over a period of weeks/months, students benefit from regular exposure to English which leads to more effective learning outcomes than short intensive 'bursts' of training. In addition, delivering training in small groups increases interaction between the instructor and individual students when compared to traditional classroom training. This, in turn, improves learning outcomes.

Relevant: Foundation targets the professional aviation training context. This reduces the time required for language learning as there is no redundancy, and it means that students are more likely to cope when they begin flight training. This is because:

  • Students have been exposed to authentic language as it occurs naturally in flight training

  • Students have been trained in the listening and reading skills crucial for successful flight training

  • Students have increased familiarity with aviation as a by-product of Foundation's content-driven language training.

Motivating: The aviation-specific learning content improves student motivation, which in turn promotes efficient language learning.

Accurate: Developed by a team of aviation subject matter experts and English language experts including an author of award-winning aviation English coursebooks, the Foundation suite provides a reliable resource of accessible yet technically accurate English language learning content.

Comprehensive: Foundation covers 15 aviation-related subjects common to the EASA/FAA flight training syllabi from meteorology and air law to principles of flight and navigation. Foundation e-learning provides over 500 interactive language activities while VILM provides a further 142 classroom-based pair and group work activities.

Zero administration: There is no need for you to administer the programme. Once you have identified students for a course, Latitude takes care of all course management and administration.

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