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PILOT TESTING IN ARGENTINA Presented by: Eduardo Macadam. OUR SCHOOL. SOME OF OUR STUDENTS. SOME OF OUR TEACHERS. RATING IS NOT NEW TO US, BEFORE ICAO LEVEL 4: 1- CONVERSATION ABOUT THE CANDIDATE´S FLYING EXPERIENCE , DERIVING INTO GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.
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PILOT TESTING IN ARGENTINA Presented by: Eduardo Macadam
RATING IS NOT NEW TO US, BEFORE ICAO LEVEL 4: 1- CONVERSATION ABOUT THE CANDIDATE´S FLYING EXPERIENCE, DERIVING INTO GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. 2- COPYING SIMPLE AERONAUTICAL CLEARANCES. 3- INTERPRETING SOME OPERATION MANUAL PARAGRAPHS. 4-TRANSLATING JUST ONE PARAGRAPH OF ANY AERONAUTICAL SUBJECT.
The test consists of threemainsections: • Part 1 (5 to 7 minutes): Oneortwoquestionscoveringwork-relatedtopics. • Part 2 (approx 12 minutes): a- recordedmessagesRead-back b- routinecommunicationto ATC c- non-routinecommunicationto ATC d- P.A. topax
Part 3 (approx 5 minutes): Picture description and somerelatedquestions
SomedifficultiesexperiencedbySpanishspeakers A- Phonological: 1- Vowelsounds • Short vs longvowels: shot/short, full/fool • Rudder/radar, dump/damp • AU: automatic, autopilot, hydraulic • UR: turbulence, turbine, surface • -OUS: famous, dangerous
Phonological: 2-Consonants • V/B: vent/bent and the “Bery-bery” syndrome • J/Y: yaw/jaw, major /mayor • TH_: thunder, threshold, thrust, throttle • Some end-consonants: “fly” for flight, “thin” for think, “brish” for bridge • Intrusive sound: “astop”, “astall”, “aschool”
Phonological: 3-Stress,pitch and rhythm are flattenedorevenedout syllable-timed vs stress-timedlanguage
2-Comprehension: • final R in British accents: WATER,BETTER, GEAR, RVR • names of letters in alphabet: R (A), A (E),E (I) • Weakformsof pronouns, prepositions, auxiliaryverbs
3- Lexis: • False cognates: “What are theACTUAL weatherconditions?” • Inventingwords: “Theforcethatpushes a plane up in the air iscalledSUSTENTATION.”
4- Structure: • Interference of pattern “verb+subject” “Crashedtheplane”, “Appeared a problem” • Word order in questions • PresentPerfect Tense and “porteños”
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