In 1998, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) took a heightened interest in the role of language in airline accidents. Member states agreed to take steps to ensure air traffic control (ATC) personnel and flight crews involved in flight operations in airspace where the use of the English language is required were proficient in conducting and comprehending radiotelephony communications in English. This report is a compilation of responses and comments by a group of U.S. pilots from American, Continental, Delta, and United Airlines of their difficulties in international operations. In this report, their responses to questions 39-45 are presented as a compiled narrative. We derived six major thrusts: (1) The English-language proficiency of nonnative English-speaking controllers may be inadequate for high-workload conditions; (2) Pilots develop and use different strategies to improve ATC communications once they determine the controller's language proficiency; (3) Pilots describe ATC communications between users of the same and different languages; (4) Language switching distracts pilots and limits understanding, adversely affects situational awareness, leaves them with feelings of uncertainty, and increases their workload; (5) Language barriers most affect situational awareness just prior to top-of-descent and during taxi; and (6) How pilots compensate for reductions in situational awareness. We offer 16 recommendations to improve communication practices ranging from developing standardized and secure English-language testing for use by all ICAO member states, to realistic emergency and nonroutine scenarios and simulations demonstrating use of conversational English to enhance datalink for surveillance and communications.
U.S. Airline Transport Pilot International Flight Language Experiences, Report 4: Non-Native English-Speaking Controllers Communicating with Native English-Speaking Pilots
2010
42 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Air Transportation , Education, Law, & Humanities , Personnel Management, Labor Relations & Manpower , Job Training & Career Development , Common Carrier & Satellite , Commercial aviation , Pilots , English language , Workload , International , Air traffic controllers , Situational awareness , Proficiency , Comprehension , Dialects , Voice communications , Intelligibility , Radio transmission , Data links , Passenger aircraft , Standardization , Semantics , Uncertainty , Commercial aircraft , Air traffic control communications , English language proficiency , Nonnative english-speaking controllers , Native english-speaking pilots , International pilots , Word meanings , Pronunciation , Elp(English language proficiency) , Focus groups , American pilots , Interviews , Accented english , Cpdlc(Controller pilot datalink communications) , Standard phraseology , Foreign accents , Foreign dialects , Language switching , Language barriers
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