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ICAO Aviation English Language Test
Endorsement Service
Nicole Barrette-Sabourin
Training Officer, Aviation Safety Training Section
ANB, ICAO
ICAEA Conference
Brasilia, 12 – 13 November 2012
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Outline
• Purpose:
– Review ICAO’s test endorsement process
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ICAO roles and responsibilities
ICAO Standards
ICAO Language Provisions
The purpose of test endorsement
Ongoing activities and lessons learned
Next steps
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About ICAO
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Created in December 1944 (Chicago Convention)
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Specialized agency of the UN System
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Membership: 191 Contracting States
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Objectives:
– Promote cooperation
– Agree on principles and arrangements to develop international civil
aviation in a safe and orderly manner.
• Essential in the Air Navigation field
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ICAO Structure
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ICAO – Insider View
• Assembly
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Contracting States meet every three years
Defines policy through Assembly Resolutions
Adopts the budget and elects the Council
Adopts amendments to the Convention which have
then to be ratified by States
• Council
– 36 members
– Permanent and resident
– Adopts Standards and Recommended Practices
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ICAO – Insider View
• Air Navigation Commission
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19 Commissioners
Commissioner act in their personal capacity
Oversee the technical work of the Organization
Duties are defined by Article 57 of the Convention
• Outputs
– Standards and Recommended Practices in 19 Annexes
and 4 PANS documents
– Coordination of international air navigation activities
(regional planning)
– Implementation (technical cooperation, continuous
monitoring approach)
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ICAO – Insider View
• ICAO Secretariat
– Headed by a Secretary General (Mr. Raymond
Benjamin) elected for three years by the Council
– Headquarters in Montreal: 500 staff, 80 in the Air
Navigation Bureau
– 7 Regional Offices (Paris, Dakar, Nairobi, Lima,
Bangkok, Cairo, Mexico)
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Development of ICAO Standards
• Article 37 of the Convention:
– Each Contracting State undertakes to
collaborate in securing the highest practicable
degree of uniformity in regulations, standards,
procedures and organization in relation to
aircraft, personnel, airways and auxiliary
services in all matters in which such
uniformity will facilitate and improve air
navigation.”
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Development of ICAO Standards
• Applicability of ICAO Standards
– International Aviation only
– Standards must be complied with or a
notification of differences must be made
– Implications of the notion of sovereignty
• Enforcement of ICAO Standards
– System is based on mutual trust between
States
– ICAO Safety Oversight Audit Programme
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The Safety Case for LPRs
Accidents
Fatalities
Trident/DC-9 mid-air collision, Zagreb, 1976
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Double B747 runway collision, Tenerife, 1977
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B707 fuel exhaustion, JFK, 1990
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B757 CFIT, Cali, 1995
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IL-76/B747 mid-air collision, India, 1996
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MD83/Shorts 330 runway collision, Paris/CDG,
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Md80/Citation runway collision, Milan, 2001
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Air-Ground Communications
• Has been a concern for decades
• Action up to the 90s
– Standardized Phraseologies
– Hope of development of a radiotelephony speech based
on a simplified English
– Realization that it was not sufficient
• Development of new Standards
– Clarify the use of the English Language
– Strengthen the use of standards phraseologies
– Establish language proficiency requirements
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PRICE SG
• Proficiency Requirements in Common English
(PRICE) Study Group
• Experts from Argentina, Canada, China, France,
Russia, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United
States, EUROCONTROL, IATA, IFATCA, IFALPA
and ICAO.
• Mandated to
– Review all aspects of air-ground and groundground voice communication
– Develop requirements concerning English
language testing
– Develop language proficiency requirements
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ICAO Language Provisions
• Annex 10 – Volume II
– Para 5.1.1.1- ICAO phraseology shall be used in all
situations for which it has been specified. Only when
standardized phraseology cannot serve an intended
transmission, plain language shall be used.
– Para 5.2.1.2.1: The air-ground radiotelephony
communications shall be conducted in the language
normally used by the station on the ground or in the
English language.
– Para 5.2.1.2.2 The English language shall be available,
on request from any aircraft station, at all stations on
the ground serving designated airports and routes
used by international air services.
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Annex 1
Pilots and Controllers
• shall demonstrate the ability to speak and understand the language used
for radiotelephony communications (Standard 1.2.9.1)
• the “speak and understand” ability shall be demonstrated to level 4 of the
ICAO rating scale (Standard 1.2.9.4 and Appendix)
• recurrent testing will be required for those below level 6
(recommendation: every 3 years for level 4 and every 6 years for level 5)
• Note that:
– Language proficiency requirements applies to pilots who are
engaged in international flights and ATCO/ASO providing services to
international flights
– Pilots shall demonstrate proficiency in at least one of the language(s)
offered in the airspace that is used
– ATCO/ASO shall demonstrate proficiency for each of the language(s)
offered in the airspace in which they are providing service
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Other Aspects
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The Rating Scale and Holistic Descriptors are contained in the
Appendix and the Attachment to Annex 1
Consequences of non-compliance with the language
proficiency Standards
– For pilots
– For Air Traffic Controllers and aeronautical Station
Operators
Guidance on the implementation of the Standards has been
published in the Manual on the Implementation of ICAO
Language Proficiency Requirements (Doc 9835)
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Why ICAO established AELTE
• Aviation language testing industry is
unregulated
• Scarcity of dependable language testing
expertise an important obstacle to the
implementation of the language provisions.
• ICAO considered as the only organization with
moral authority to implement this service
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Important to Note
• The ultimate responsibility of implementation
of LPRs and testing remains with the CAAs
• TSPs who participate in the AELTE do so on a
voluntary basis
• Service is provided on a cost-recovery basis
• Criteria used for evaluation are directly linked
to Document 9835
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Endorsement: TSP Perspective
• Five main steps to complete the endorsement process
• Steps are documented on a dedicated website,
structured to guide users through the process
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Current Status
• 25 accounts requested and created
• Test evaluation results:
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Results
Current
Endorsed
Conditionally endorsed
Not endorsed
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5
In progress
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Test Evaluation Results
• Main reasons not to endorse tests:
– Poor / incomplete test documentation
– Lack of evidence: not supporting claims made
about a test with evidence (facts, figures, reports,
analyses, procedures, etc.)
– Tests that don’t reflect ICAO Doc 9835 and the
ICAO LPR
• Excellent cooperation from TSP conditionally
/ fully endorsed – improvements already
made based on suggestions received
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In progress
• Transitioning the ICAO-ALETE website to a more
complete / permanent home
– More tools for TSP to directly manage their accounts
– More detail in the process to better guide users
– Better information (news and improvements)
• Continually improving the process: gathering and applying
lessons learned
Test endorsement is a multi-faceted process requiring
substantial practical experience to fully develop. Cooperation
remains the essential ingredient to achieve its full potential.
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Upcoming Event
• Language Proficiency Requirements Technical
Seminar
• 25 to 27 March 2013
• ICAO Headquarters, Montreal
• http://www.icao.int/LPR13
• ICAO State Letter AN 12/44.7-12/60 of 19
October
• Objective:
– Continue to foster implementation of LPRs
– Gather data to assist in report to the Assembly in 2013
– Provide information on web-based tools
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Thank you! Obrigada!
Questions?
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