Altitude

This course is an ideal stepping stone to English proficiency for a wide range of aviation industry workers.

Taking your aviation career to new heights

This course is an ideal stepping stone to English proficiency for a wide range of aviation industry workers. At pre-intermediate level, it builds on the foundation English of trainees so that they can immediately communicate more effectively on the job.

At the same time, it prepares them for further training delivered in English. Altitude can be tailored to focus on any personnel within your organisation. For example pilots, air traffic controllers, maintenance and cabin crew.

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Course

This course consists of 72 hours of highly interactive Aviation English learning activities across six units, set in relevant work-related contexts. It can be tailored to focus on any personnel within your organisation, for example, cadet pilots, ab initio air traffic controllers, maintenance technicians and cabin crew. Each unit has four themes and each theme has three lessons of one hour each.

The focus is on fluency and the practical use of English in a professional setting.

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Learning objectives

Help participants increase their fluency and accuracy when speaking and writing English in specific aviation contexts.

Improve understanding (listening) of short conversations and reading of short texts on aviation work-related topics.

Increase knowledge of aviation and work-related vocabulary and accuracy in grammar.

Support

RMIT UP can provide instructors to deliver the course for you or we can train your trainers to deliver this course.

Case studies

Oman Aircraft Control College

This joint Muscat civil and military training college took Aviation English training to meet ICAO Language Proficiency Requirements. College Trainers were coached to deliver the course.

Russian Civil Aviation Authority and the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI)

Training for 2000+ pilots and air traffic controllers for proficiency to ICAO Level 4 (Operational) and Level 5 (Extended). BL4 allows personnel English language proficiency retention.

Terrindo

RMIT UP worked with Terrindo and airport management in Jakarta, to deliver tailored Aviation English courses for specific purposes. Aviation English trainers delivered intensive courses and local teachers were trained to deliver future courses.

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Beyond Level 4

Beyond Level 4 helps participants go beyond ICAO Level 4 (Operational) and maintain their English language proficiency between tests.

Altitude

Altitude training helps participants to increase their fluency and accuracy when speaking and writing English in specific aviation contexts.

Radiotelephony English

Develop plain English language skills for use in radiotelephony communication in line with ICAO Language Proficiency Requirements.

RELTA

Prepare to demonstrate your English language proficiency for licensing purposes with RELTA (RMIT English Language Test for Aviation).

Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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