ABSTRACT
The purpose of air traffic control training is to produce sufficient qualified controllers to meet staffing requirements, all of whom possess and can apply the requisite knowledge and skills to be safe and efficient and are motivated to remain as controllers. Training in the content, phraseology, sequencing and nuances of meaning in spoken air traffic control English is essential for every prospective controller, who must not experience serious difficulty in speaking or understanding English spoken face-to-face or through communication channels. Training courses commonly differ sufficiently for the correlations of the scores by the same students on different courses to be not very high. Most training instruction in air traffic control uses several instructional techniques and tools. The highest standards of on-the-job training require the best controllers as instructors, which in turn requires instructing to be a high status job. There are several criteria for testing the validity of training.
