Audience
This course is for ab-initio flight students who are at a low level of English proficiency and want to dramatically improve their Aviation English skills before starting PPL training.
Course Objectives
After taking this course, you will:
- Clearly understand instructions and feedback from your flight instructor while you are flying
- Feel comfortable with basic Air Traffic Control (ATC) communication skills (both speaking and listening)
- Have a large working vocabulary of aviation terminology and be able to converse with a native English speaker about aviation topics
- Have basic hands-on skills of aircraft control, flying basic maneuvers, and navigation principles, which will help your real-world training proceed more smoothly
- Be more prepared for the ICAO English Exam
Benefits
- One-on-one coaching means this training is fully interactive and allows your instructor to focus their full attention on your needs. You will have the opportunity to extensively practice English speaking and listening skills in an authentic way with a native speaker. They will target the specific areas that require the most improvement with custom-designed exercises based on the principles of deliberate practice.
- Learn from the comfort and convenience of home
- All sessions are fully recorded for your review. Re-watch your lessons as many times as you would like and take notes on specific points you want to ask your instructor about.
- Your instructor will be a native English speaker with over 1000 hours of experience training pilots with limited English skills
- Through the use of desktop flight simulation, your practice sessions will be in an immersive, fun, and practical environment. Mistakes are OK here! Unlike in an airplane, we can pause at any point where you have doubts to thoroughly explain concepts of grammar, pronunciation, and sentence structure.
Structure of each session
Each coaching session will consist of 4 parts (approximately 30 minutes each):
- Review: Discuss any questions or doubts on topics from the prior session, and practice reviewing areas of difficulty with your instructor before moving onto the next topic.
- Watch and talk: Conversational practice as the instructor flies their simulator
- Fly and listen: Practice flying your simulator and understanding/implementing feedback from your instructor
- ATC practice: Practice understanding and responding to ATC communications – with your instructor and using live ATC recordings
Homework structure
After each session, you will be assigned homework that will help reinforce what was learned with your instructor. The main aspects of each homework assignment are:
- Review the recording of the entire lesson
- Make notes and flashcards on any difficult vocabulary, sentence structures, or pronunciations
- Study the flashcards
- Write down questions for the instructor
Schedule
The total duration of the course is 20 hours. This is divided into 10 individual sessions (each session is 2 hours long).
We recommend scheduling the sessions over a 2-week period.
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If you are interested in enrolling in the intensive English course, please set up a consultation call with one of the featured instructors below. During this call, we will assess your English level and determine if this course is right for you.
