Centro Evaluador de Competencia Lingüística para. Controladores de Tránsito Aéreo, Operadores ARO-AIS y Especialistas NOTAM

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1 EXAMEN DE CERTIFICACIÓN EN COMPETENCIA LINGÜÍSTICA EN IDIOMA INGLÉS PARA CONTROLADORES DE TRÁNSITO AÉREO EXAM FORMAT PART A ONE-TO-ONE INTERACTION SECTION 1: Personal Interview (approximately 3 minutes) SECTION 2: Aviation related topics (approximately 5 minutes) SECTION 3: Case Study reports (approximately 10 minutes) PART B SIMULATION SCENARIOS SECTION 1: Listening for specific information (approximately 7 minutes) SECTION 2: Listening for detailed information (approximately 10 minutes) SECTION 3: Simulation (approximately 15 minutes) 1

2 LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TEST FOR AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS The role of both interlocutors (the Language Expert - ELE- and the Subject Matter Expert-SME) is just to interact successfully in the English language with the candidate. The candidate s performance will not be assessed by the interlocutors. The candidate s performance will be assessed by two/three RATERS complying with ICAO LPRs (Doc Language Proficiency Requirements). PART A: ONE-TO-ONE INTERACTION SECTION 1: Personal Interview (Approximately 3 minutes) The candidate is expected to be able to speak about his/her professional life. The interlocutor may ask him/her some related questions. Refer to Appendix A for some samples. PART A: ONE-TO-ONE INTERACTION SECTION 2: Aviation Related Topics (Approximately 5 minutes) The candidate is expected to be able to speak about an aviation-related topic provided in a card he/she will have to choose. The interlocutor may ask him/her some related questions. Refer to Appendix A for some samples. PART A: ONE-TO-ONE INTERACTION SECTION 3: Case Study Reports (Approximately 10 minutes) The candidate is expected to be able to talk about what he/she has understood from an aviation-related recording after listening to it twice. The candidate will be allowed to take down notes. The interlocutor may ask him/her some related questions. Refer to Appendix A for a sample recording and possible further questions. 2

3 PART B SECTION 1: Listening for specific information (Approximately 7 minutes) During this part of the exam the candidate will be presented with different exchanges between pilots and controllers from which he/she will have to extract the correct information to answer multiple choice questions after listening to each exchange once. Each conversation has been selected from a wide variety of accents in order to check comprehension. After each exchange, the interlocutor will request the corresponding answer. Refer to Appendix A for sample questions and audio samples. PART B SECTION 2: Listening for detailed information (Approximately 10 minutes) This part of the exam is designed to measure listening skill in voice-only context, and the ability to speak about what has been understood. The candidate will listen to six short communications between pilots and air traffic controllers. Each recording will be place twice. Immediately after each communication, the interlocutor will ask some questions. Refer to Appendix A for audio and sample questions. PART B SECTION 3: Simulation (Approximately 15 minutes) This part of the test simulates radiotelephony communications. The task is designed to assess language proficiency on the work position. The SME will take the role of the pilot. Technical knowledge will not be assessed. The candidate is presented with a scenario in which she/he will have to hold a communication in routine and non- routine situations, in different phases of the flight, based on the unit/sector he/she works in. The test is designed to evaluate the candidate in the job environment, and even though standard phraseology is used during the simulation, it is not assessed. Refer to Appendix A for possible scenarios. 3

4 APPENDIX A PART A SECTION 1: Personal Interview Sample questions General Personal Info Work information (Present) Work information (Past) Hypothezing Giving advice and opinions Talking about the future Tell us about yourself Where do you work? Why did you become an ATCO? What would you change in your workplace What do you like most about your job? What do you see yourself doing in ten years time? Tell us about a typical day in your life Do you like working there? Why? Why not? Was anyone in your family an ATCO? What technological advances would you need in your workplace? What do you dislike about your job? What are your expectations about your job for the near future? PART A SECTION 2: Aviation-related Topics Sample cards K L 1.Tower and ACC Main differences Main skills to work in each of them 3.In-flight special situations Fire on board Which sector do you work in? Have you always worked there? Would you like to change? Why? / Why not? Have you ever experienced an extreme situation at work? Can you tell us about it? What is the role of an ATCO in case of fire on board? 4

5 PART A SECTION 3: Case Study Reports What s your personal opinion about this event? What are the advantages and disadvantages of working overnight schedules? PART B SECTION 1: Listening for specific information (Refer to Appendix B) PART B SECTION 2: Listening for detailed information(refer to Appendix B) 1. What is the situation? Is the aircraft in danger? 2. What is the pilot doing? What is the air traffic controller warning about? Why is he doing it? 3. What is the pilot trying to say with PAN PAN PAN? Why did he declare the PAN PAN PAN? 4. What is the situation? Why is the pilot saying MAYDAY? Could you tell the nature of the emergency? PART B SECTION 3: Simulation SCENARIO The communication is going to take place in EZEIZA EN-ROUTE CONTROL, there are up to four traffics in the route UW64 and UW65, UL793, UW5 and UA306. Traffic N 1 American 908, B777, from MIA to EZE, over TODES with flight level 370, (Route: TODES, GUA, PAGON.).Calls over TODES at 0357, estimates GUA VOR at At 0410 request Ezeiza s weather(which is not good and Trend) Ezeiza is operating CAT III.After that, request deviation right of course for weather. Then, some minutes later request diversion to ROS and ROS weather. 5

6 Traffic N 2 FDX46, B722, from EZE to SCEL, over URINO at 0404, passing flight level 245 to flight level 360, estimating NIN VOR at 0415, NUXIM next. Request if there is any ride report of the route. Traffic N 3 N179PT, GLF5, from AER to SKBO, via ATOVO ROS ROKER, calls over ATOVO passing flight level 300 to flight level 450, deviating left of course for weather. Request route change and wants to explain it to the controller. 6

7 APPENDIX B CANDIDATE S ANSWER SHEET PART B SECTION 1 1- What was the instruction? a) Turn right onto runway 22R b) Turn right and cross runway 22R c) Turn left next intersection d) Turn left and cross runway 22 R 2- What was the wind? a) 250 at 10 b) 200 at 7 c) 020 at 7 d) 070 at 2 3- What flight level was the traffic leaving? a) 370 b) 380 c) 400 d) What was the assigned speed for jet blue 852? a) Not more than 180 knots b) Not less than 180 knots c) Not less than 160 Knots d) 250 knots 7

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