ICAO LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN ITALY

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ICAOLANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN ITALY
Marco Silanos ENAC, Airspace Services
Certification Director

• ICAO Workshop on Language Proficiency
  Requirements Implementation
• Rome, 3-5 March 2010

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LPR Status
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GENERAL

• Awareness meetings with stakeholders (including
  Unions),
• workshops, newsletters, policy notes

Promulgation JAR FCL1 Emdt 7 and JAR FCL 2 emdt
6 ATCO Reg in 2006 D.Lgvo 118/2008
(A)FIS Reg by summer 2010 (replacing DPR566/88)
National Coordinator ENAC (Eleonora Italia)
Implementation Plan first in march
2008 last update in september 2009
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Test Training

• Pilot Licence
• Test selected through EU competition
• Test developed by Mayflower College (TEA)
• FTO, TRTO, Operator and Lang School as test
  centers
• LPR examiners certified and standardised by ENAC
• Test developer standardised by ENAC

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Test Training

• ATCO Licence
• Italian Air Force Test exported to ENAV
• TPT ENAV approved by ENAC in April 2009 i.c.w.
  Doc 9835
• Covers phraseology,conversional plain language
• Checks Level 3,4,5
• ANSP Test examiners / specific reqs to be met
• Training and test now included in ab initio
  courses
• Itinerant commission

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Difficulties

• Pilot
• Large amount of tests to be taken in 12 months
• Mutual recognition of the demonstration of
  proficiency
• No continuous training

• ATS
• (A)FIS Operators to be tested
• No continuous training but ITAF

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? ANY QUESTIONS ?