LOT POLISH AIRLINES

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LOT POLISH AIRLINES

• RELTAImplementation Process
• Presented
• by
• Krzysztof Sysio

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RELTA (Australian) Pilot and ATC streams

• The Polish choice for pilots testing

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Options available to airlines ATC providers

• Develop own test and/or training materials using
  existing capacity (language training resources)
• - former LOT experiences
• Recruit test developers/teachers to address
  issues
• - Internal LOT test developing practices before
  1996
• Outsource testing and training to language
  providers
• - Solution actually analysed in respect to
  training
• Form consortium with other airlines/ATC providers
  to combine resources for joint approach
• - The solution not concerned

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• Start recruiting only proficient pilots
• - The future requirements already widely
  accepted
• Most regulators aware of requirements
• Polish CAA had analysed the situation
  carefully and long.
• Due to time constrain there was no
  possibility to make assessment of all pilots
  within the required time frame (before 5 mach
  2008). Thus, Polish CAA decided to notify ICAO of
  non compliance with the requirements.

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• Airlines lobbying CAAs to take a soft approach,
  but not in Poland
• There are some groups of pilots worrying about
  possible threads of new ICAO requirements, not
  the administration of the LOT Polish Airlines.
  Remember that the requirements would influence
  the B787 promotion. At the same time a large
  group of pilots is approaching the retirement.
  The 787 delivery delay becomes the factor.
• Implementation of proficiency testing yet to
  occur on wide scale (expected to occur 2008 )
• - RELTA implementation scenario has already
  accepted by the pilots and it is being
  implemented

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IMPLEMENTATION THREADS

• Validity
• - There are local pronunciation preferences for
  spoken English and locally accepted language
  deficiencies that might influence the final
  assessment (Australian-Chinese, American-Spanish,
  Polish-German-French-British i.e. European
  English in Aviation phraseology), remember the
  raters are not only native speakers

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Reliability

• -RELTA test seems to be reliable, however the
  there were only 107 pilots tested from 14th
  February 2008 and 7 pilots were below level 4 of
  only (Pilots with good English declare the will
  to take the examination now)
• - 10 LOT pilots took the examination so far,
  others prepeare and collect information

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Authenticity

• there are some comments by pilots to the
  situations proposed in the tests scenarios, which
  interpretations or behaviours are not necessarily
  complying with the experiences of pilots and
  sometimes with the common sense or SOP patterns
  and they still should be verified with worldwide
  airlines experiences

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Interactivity

• Only small technical corrections sometimes but
  rarely required

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Fairness in policy

• Should the raters names be available in the
  Examination Certificate (Polish legal issues)?

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Practicality

• - The examiner and rater SOPs presented by RELTA
  show the great experience of the test designers
  which, the knowledge, allows the less experienced
  examiners starting this job to avoid wrong
  proceedings and possible conflicts
• - The examiner and rater training principles are
  well prepared, however the (rater) training
  should be available online any time.

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Need balance

• The difference in professional approach to
  specific situations and SOPs creates the need to
  make an introduction to the test by the Examiner
  non standard situation might be affected
  becoming more standard one in the test to be
  carried.

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Listening tests

• Should some of the questions be tricky? Should
  the questions rather be put straight forward
  instead of creating a puzzle.
• Questions with four long complex sentences as
  proposed answers are reported to create stress
  and time for analysing them is too short.

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RELTA meets ICAO requirements (Doc 9835)

• Aviation specific
• Speaking and listening
• No reading (?) or writing
• Language for pilots
• Phraseology and Plain English
• ICAO criteria
• ICAO rating scale (R/T and plain English)!
• Computer mediated

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• English overall knowledge uncovers deficiencies
  and life story of a pilot
• Learning English in Aviation by repetition of all
  subjects covered by modern ATPL programs

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The Examined Pilot from inside

• The heritage
• The family skills
• The education process profile
• The national background (the iron curtain)
• Political realities and preferences of Airlines
• Speaking test Section 3 conversation
• - Practicing English in day-to-day situations
• - English and pilots hobbies
• - Professional background (the conversation
  assessment confronting former standards and the
  present FAA and EASA ATPL standards for learning
  and training programs).
• Pilots individual mentality and emotions

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Pilot as RELTA examiner and rater

• The values and design of RELTA test can reduce
  the threads for a pilot being an examiner or
  pilot and rater at the same time
• - The objective and professional examiner can
  only help the examined pilot and improve the
  inter-pilot relation by this professional
  attitude
• - the rater assessing the examination is never
  left alone and unsupervised which helps to
  create good impression of her/him as an objective
  and honest person within the pilots professional
  group.
• The former role of a person acting as an Examiner
  and Rater at the same time was risky and always
  raised comments

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JAR -FCL

• An applicant for an IR(A), MPL(A), ATPL(A) or
  validation shall have demonstrated the ability to
  use the English language as set out in Appendix 1
  to JARFCL 1.200.
• The holder of an IR(A) issued in accordance with
  Appendix 1 to JAR-FCL 1.200 shall have the
  PPL(A), CPL(A), MPL(A) or ATPL(A) extended with
  radiotelephony privileges in English.Amdt.2,
  01.08.02

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• (a) flight
• radio telephony relevant to all phases of flight,
  including emergency situations. This item in
  considered to be fulfilled, if the applicant has
  passed an IR, MPL or ATPL skill test or
  proficiency check during which the two-way
  radiotelephony communication is performed in
  English.
• (b) ground
• all information relevant to the accomplishment of
  a flight, e.g.
• be able to read and demonstrate an
  understanding of technical manuals written in
  English, e.g. an Operations Manual, an Aeroplane
  Flight Manual, etc.
• pre-flight planning, weather information
  collection, NOTAMs, ATC Flight Plan, etc.
• use of all aeronautical en-route, departure and
  approach charts and associated documents written
  in English.
• This item in considered to be fulfilled, if the
  applicant has graduated from an IR, MPL or ATP
  course given in English or if he has passed the
  theoretical IR or ATPL examination in English.
• (c) communication
• be able to communicate with other crew members in
  English during all phases of flight, including
  flight preparation

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PCAO approach

• To fly controlled airspace, international flights
  both for IFR and VFR flights PCAO requires pilot
  to prove level 4 of proficiency in English
  according to new ICAO requirements

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LPR for VFR missing?

• RELTA offers light aircraft for only VFR flights

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Numbers

• 9600 licenced pilots in Poland
• 1700 pilots employed (ATPL,CPL)
• 7900 pilots flying light aircraft
• 2000 entries to RELTA contracted for 2 years

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• Thank you