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Compliance with ICAO standardized phraseology is not fully harmonized on a worldwide basis. Regional deviations from ICAO standardized phraseology, as well as individual failures to adhere to prescribed ICAO standardized phraseology, create possibilities for misunderstanding in a busy international environment.
Standardized phraseology should provide the tools for communication in most of the situations encountered in normal operations. However, sometimes the unexpected happens. For example, an inexperienced pilot gets lost, a technical problem develops on the aircraft, a passenger falls sick, someone provokes a bomb alert, ATC equipment fails or the truly unexpected arises. In these cases, where phraseology provides no ready-made form for communication, pilots and controllers must resort to plain language.
Plain language in aeronautical radiotelephony communications means the spontaneous, creative and non- coded use of a given natural language, although constrained by the functions and topics (aviation and non-aviation) that are required by aeronautical radiotelephony communications, as well as by specific safety-critical requirements for intelligibility, directness, appropriacy, non-ambiguity and concision.
We intend to train students on proficiency. While the course acknowledges the use of standardized phraseology in aviation, much emphasis will be on the use of plain English. This would enable students to become adaptable to different scenarios and avoid the temptation of rote-learning.
