English holds a central position in the aviation sector: technical documents, crew briefings, operational exchanges, procedures, professional literature, simulator sessions, and interactions during advanced training.
The Aviation English training program offered by Hexagone Aviation School is designed for private pilots, student pilots, aspiring airline pilots, and industry professionals seeking to develop a robust specialized vocabulary, master aviation-specific technical English, and enhance their fluency in an international environment.
The 3-hour group sessions are designed to foster group dynamics, exchange, and practical application. Each session addresses a specific operational theme and combines collaborative exercises, analyses of real-life situations, subgroup work, and simulations inspired by the aeronautical environment.
This immersive approach enables each participant to progress effectively, share their experiences, enrich their understanding of professional practices, and improve their English communication within an authentic aviation context.
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Specialized and Experienced Instructors
All our instructors are native English speakers or perfectly bilingual.
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3-hour Thematic Sessions
Each session is structured around a specific theme, enabling students to work through various scenarios and progress collaboratively.
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Professional Pedagogical Methods
Our courses are founded upon modern, interactive, and efficient pedagogical approaches, including scenario-based learning, guided dialogues, practical exercises, and comprehensive multimedia resources.
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Group Energy and Motivation
The collective dynamic fosters confidence, encourages active participation, and promotes natural learning. Students learn to interact, communicate, and practice within a structured and supportive environment.
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Instructor-led Academic Support
Your instructor guides the group, provides targeted corrections, answers questions, and assists each individual in progressing according to their level and needs.
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Total flexibility: on-site or remote via videoconference
You select the format that best suits your needs — either on-site in Beauvais or online — with scheduling options designed to accommodate your operational constraints.
The Aviation English training program is designed to enhance your command of the technical and professional English utilized within the aeronautical environment, encompassing: ground operations, documentation, maintenance, procedures, professional communication, multicultural collaboration, safety protocols, and crew coordination, among others.
This program enables you to acquire the indispensable linguistic competencies required to confidently navigate your professional domain, to comprehend and articulate precise, clear, and professional language, and to achieve fluency with aviation-specific terminology.
Specifically, upon completion of the training, you will be able to:
- Comprehend and utilize essential aviation vocabulary, including terms related to operations, aircraft systems, meteorology, performance, maintenance, and procedures.
- Read and interpret technical documentation such as operational manuals, checklists, NOTAMs, procedures, technical bulletins, and safety reports.
- Articulate clear descriptions of professional situations pertaining to flight, operations, aircraft systems, and technical occurrences.
- Reinforce your grammar as applied to aeronautics, enabling you to compose and communicate in a structured and precise manner.
- Engage with enhanced fluency during meetings, briefings, debriefings, operational exchanges, and multicultural interactions.
- Comprehend diverse accents and speech rates, characteristic of the international aviation environment.
- Present, explain, or summarize a technical procedure or concept,
- Develop reliable, clear, and confident professional English in various contexts: operational, technical, or academic.
Our objective is clear: to enable you to acquire a robust, precise, and operational professional English, capable of supporting your advancement in your aviation career and future qualifications.
The Aviation English training program aims to make you fully operational within an international aviation environment. It seeks to enhance your professional communication skills, expand your technical vocabulary, and prepare you to operate effectively in diverse professional contexts: air operations, maintenance, ground operations, piloting, flight management, briefing, documentation, international interactions, etc.
Upon completion of the training, you will be able to:
- Utilize precise and appropriate professional English, whether on the ground, during briefings, in operations, or in your daily interactions with international counterparts.
- Comprehend and employ technical aeronautical vocabulary, covering areas such as: procedures, performance, aircraft systems, meteorology, safety, operations, maintenance, air traffic management, documentation, etc.
- Read, comprehend, and synthesize aeronautical documents, such as manuals, checklists, NOTAMs, METAR/TAF reports, technical reports, or operational documents.
- Communicate fluently in real-world professional situations: meetings, coordination, technical exchanges, inter-departmental interactions, unforeseen event management.
- Present technical or operational information with clarity, both orally and in writing.
- Gain confidence in your daily tasks by mastering the expressions, formulations, and phrasing specific to the aviation domain.
- Enhance your international employability by improving the quality, precision, and reliability of your professional communication in English.
Our objective:
to enable you to operate with ease within the international aeronautical environment, utilizing robust, structured professional English aligned with industry standards.
The Aeronautical English training is designed for a broad audience requiring a solid technical vocabulary to operate within the aviation environment, whether for professional purposes or for leisure.
It is intended for:
Professional pilots and aspiring pilots
- Students undergoing CPL/IR/MEP/MCC training who wish to enhance their technical English.
- Cadets or candidates for airline selection processes.
- Professional pilots (airline, business aviation, instructors) requiring clear and operational technical English.
Private pilots (PPL)
- Pilots wishing to fly in Europe or English-speaking environments.
- Aeroclub members who wish to communicate more easily with international controllers, technicians, or pilots.
- Private pilots seeking to enrich their aeronautical vocabulary to fly more confidently under VFR.
Students & candidates for aeronautical schools
- Students in aeronautical programs (ATPL theoretical, aeronautical engineering schools, BTS Aeronautics).
- Candidates for cadet programs or professional training academies.
Aviation sector professionals
- Technicians, mechanics, operations agents, dispatchers, flight planners.
- Airport personnel or aeronautical companies requiring technical English proficiency.
Aviation enthusiasts
- Enthusiasts seeking to enhance their understanding of documentation, briefings, videos, conferences, and aviation terminology.
The Aviation English training program is accessible to all pilots – both professional and private – as well as to students in aviation training and enthusiasts aiming to develop their proficiency in technical English.
To fully benefit from this program, the following prerequisites are recommended:
- Possess a basic general English level (A2/B1 level recommended) enabling comprehension and production of simple sentences.
An assessment conducted prior to the first session allows for immediate adaptation of content to each student's actual proficiency level. - Demonstrate an interest in aviation: private pilots (PPL), pilots in training, professional pilots, or enthusiasts seeking to advance their aeronautical vocabulary.
- No prior knowledge of phraseology is required, as the program primarily focuses on professional vocabulary and technical communication, rather than regulated radiotelephony.
- No administrative prerequisites: the training is open to both students and already licensed pilots, without any flight experience requirements.
These prerequisites ensure smooth progression and tailored learning for each profile, from private pilots wishing to travel in Europe to professional pilots aiming for greater fluency in aeronautical English.
To ensure effective learning and a curriculum truly adapted to your proficiency level, Hexagone implements a systematic entry-level assessment for each new student.
This placement assessment includes:
- A proficiency test (comprehension and expression) to identify your current knowledge,
- An individual consultation with an instructor to understand your needs, objectives, and past English language experience,
- A personalized analysis of your strengths and areas for improvement,
- The definition of a tailored training plan, adapted to your pace, expectations, and personal or professional project.
This initial placement ensures that each student begins training at the appropriate level, with a coherent and effective program, and benefits from truly individualized instruction from the very first session.
Multiple training sessions available throughout the year
Prior to joining a session, each participant undergoes a brief placement test followed by an individual discussion with an instructor.
This step allows us to assess your suitability for an Aviation English course, thereby ensuring effective, consistent, and motivating learning for all participants.
Courses are structured as 3-hour group sessions, scheduled throughout the month.
Participants can freely register for their preferred time slots, based on their availability and objectives.
Each session is led by a native English-speaking or perfectly bilingual instructor.
The 3 hours of instruction focus on conversation, pronunciation, comprehension, practical exercises, and vocabulary enrichment.
The collaborative format promotes expression, mutual assistance, and dynamic learning.
Between sessions, you will benefit from resources provided by your instructor: including vocabulary sheets, audio materials, exercises, and personalized advice.
This personal study reinforces your learning and accelerates your progress.
Even within a group, each participant receives individual monitoring:
the instructor observes your progress, identifies areas for improvement, and advises you on the most suitable topics or sessions for your level.
If required, tailored recommendations may be formulated (e.g., specific assignments, supplementary resources).
Regularly, an assessment is offered to review your progress, acquired competencies, and remaining objectives.
This assessment allows for the evaluation of your progression and guides your pathway:
continuation of group sessions, individual reinforcement, TOEIC preparation, FCL055.
The program follows a structured pedagogical progression, while remaining flexible according to the group's level and participants' objectives.
Language and communication in aviation
Objectives: To assess the initial level and consolidate essential aeronautical English fundamentals for safe and clear communication.
Content:
- Types of radio communication situations
- Examples of poor communications
- Communication management
- Focus on easily confused words
- Focus on word endings
- Interrogative words and expressions
- Abbreviations
- Using glossary definitions
Ground movements
Objectives: To master English vocabulary and communications for aircraft ground movements and airport traffic procedures.
Content:
- Airport markings and signage
- Airport layout and zones
- Ground equipment
- Rollover incidents
- Start-up and pushback clearance
- Location and movement
- Alphabet and numbers
- Adverbs
- Abbreviations
- Physical characteristics (color, shape, size)
- Incident vocabulary
- Word endings
Ground Communication
Objectives: To master standard English communications with ground control to ensure safe and fluid airport movements.
Content:
- Incident management involving engineering, ambulances, security, firefighters, towing vehicles, etc.
- Fire emergency management
- -ing: current actions and functions in word groups
- Expressing Compliance
- Ground Equipment Terminology
- Perception: Describing What You Believe is Occurring
- Causative Constructions
- Pronunciation: Verbs Ending in -ing
- States and Altered States
Runway Incursions
Objectives: To identify, prevent, and effectively communicate runway incursions.
Content:
- Safety Vocabulary and Synonyms
- Modal Verbs
- Describing Past Events
- Pronunciation, Phrasing, and Fluency
Environmental Hazards
Objectives: Identify and effectively communicate environmental hazards.
Content:
- Understanding messages related to weather conditions and environmental hazards.
- Construction of simple sentences to report or request information on environmental hazards.
- Announcing and receiving weather information and alerts.
- Communication of hazards on the runway or in the immediate air environment.
- Reading and interpretation of weather bulletins.
- Adjectives for Describing Environmental Conditions
- MET Abbreviations
- Variable Conditions
- Words with Multiple Applications
- Practical Dialogue Exercises
Altitude Deviations
Objectives: Understand, report, and promptly correct any flight level deviation.
Content:
- Understanding messages related to flight levels and instructions.
- Construction of Simple Sentences
- Verb Forms: Active and Passive Voice in the Past Tense; Use of the Infinitive and Present Participle
- Prepositions
- Negations
- Word Stress and Intonation
- Describing Incidents
- Homophones
- Elocution, Intonation, and Phrasing
- Conditionals
Decision-Making
Objectives: Develop the ability to make and communicate rapid and safe decisions in operational situations.
Content:
- Understanding scenarios requiring rapid decision-making.
- Construction of simple sentences to express a decision and its rationale.
- Communicating a decision to air traffic control or the crew.
- Announcing changes in heading, altitude, or speed following a situation.
- Using expressions to request advice or confirm an instruction.
- Usage of the Simple Past and Present Continuous
- Phrasing, Pronunciation, and Fluency
- Stressed Syllables
- Useful Phrases for Managing Language Proficiency Deficiencies
- Cause and Effect: Requesting Reasons and Providing Explanations
Approach and Landing Incidents
Objectives: Identify, manage, and effectively communicate incidents during approach and landing operations
Content:
- Understanding approach and landing scenarios and associated communications
- Formulating clear phrases to announce a situation or request instructions.
- Communicating incidents or anomalies during approach.
- Requesting ATC instructions in the event of a go-around or diverted landing.
- Reading and interpreting approach charts and instructions
- Providing Advice Using 'Should'
- Volition: Future Tense, Intention, and Commitment
- Conveying Information in Reported Speech
- Describing Position and Distance
Managing Technical Malfunctions
Objectives: Effectively communicating and managing technical malfunctions in flight or on the ground
Content:
- Understanding messages related to failures and emergency procedures.
- Constructing Clear Sentences to Describe Technical Conditions
- Discussing Consequences
- Phrasal Verbs
- Conjunctions and Function Words
- Utilizing Context to Differentiate Similar Words
Risk Reduction during Approach and Landing
Objectives: Applying effective strategies and communication to mitigate risks during approach and landing
Content:
- Understanding ATC Messages and Specific Safety Procedures
- Phrasal Verbs
- Present Perfect Tense
- 'Still' and 'Yet'
- Summarization Skills
- Expressing Preferences
- Reported Speech
- Phrasing, Stress, and Intonation
Evaluation & Final Assessment
Objectives: Measure progress and define recommended next steps.
Content:
- Final oral assessment
- Progress evaluation (pronunciation, vocabulary, fluency)
- Analysis of acquired skills
Proposed continuation:
- TOEIC Preparation
- FCL.055 Preparation
- or individual continuation
- Enhance your spoken communication through more fluid, natural, and spontaneous English.
- Develop improved listening comprehension, including when encountering various accents and speech rates.
- Enrich your essential vocabulary for common daily, professional, and social interactions.
- Strengthen your grammatical foundations to construct correct, varied, and coherent sentences.
- Improve your pronunciation and intonation through individualized coaching.
- Understand simple to intermediate written documents: emails, messages, descriptions, announcements.
- Gain confidence during real-world interactions, whether in-person, over the phone, or via video conference.
- Identify your areas for improvement through personalized feedback and adopt effective learning strategies.
- Establish a solid foundation to then access higher levels: TOEIC, FCL.055.
- Individual courses in-person or via video conference
- Face-to-face interviews and discussions with the instructor
- Guided conversation and simulated scenarios
- Practical exercises (oral expression, comprehension, vocabulary, grammar)
- Real-dialogue simulations
- Continuous adaptation of content based on your progress
- Educational materials provided: vocabulary sheets, grammar sheets, exercises, dialogues
- Audio and video resources for oral comprehension
- Interactive exercises
- Individualized progress monitoring
Assessment Methods and Procedures
The assessment of acquired knowledge is conducted continuously throughout the training, directly during individual sessions.
It is based on:
- oral exercises evaluating fluency, pronunciation, and comprehension,
- short written activities (simple messages, sentences, mini-texts),
- guided situational exercises,
- personalized feedback from the instructor during each session.
A final assessment identifies the progress made, skills acquired, and areas for development in your continued linguistic journey.
Means of Assessing Program Outcomes
Each student benefits from individualized pedagogical support, comprising:
- a session-by-session progress evaluation,
- indicators such as fluency, listening comprehension, lexical richness, and grammatical accuracy,
- personalized feedback, written or oral, to guide the learning process,
- regular content adjustments based on the student's development.
Intermediate assessments are conducted to ensure consistent and measurable progress.
Examination Procedures by the Certifying Body
The General English training does not prepare for a mandatory or regulatory examination.
However, it provides an excellent foundation for preparing for:
- the TOEIC,
- aviation English,
- the FCL.055,
- or any international language certification.
Should the student wish to pursue a specific examination, Hexagone Aviation School assists them with:
- guidance towards suitable training,
- the selection of the complementary module (TOEIC, FCL055, etc.),
- the registration procedures for official tests.
Training Certification and Course Completion Certificate
Upon completion of the training, a certificate of attendance is issued to the student by Hexagone Aviation School. This document confirms that the training has been successfully completed and specifies the total hours undertaken. It serves as official proof of participation and can be used as supporting documentation for further studies, administrative records, or enrollment in supplementary language training.
Training Quality and Compliance
The General English training offered by Hexagone Aviation School is based on rigorous pedagogical standards and a structured approach, tailored to the needs of learners in academic or professional contexts. It is delivered by qualified instructors, selected for their linguistic proficiency and experience in personalized guidance. The instruction employs a modern methodology, focused on individual progress, clear objectives, and high-quality pedagogical monitoring.
Career Prospects
Strengthening English proficiency is now an essential asset in many professional environments. This training enables learners to enhance their oral fluency, comprehension, ability to interact in an international context, and confidence in daily language use. It also provides an excellent foundation for achieving more advanced levels or certifications such as TOEIC, Aviation English, or FCL.055 preparation, thereby facilitating students' academic or professional advancement.
Further Training Progression
Upon completion of the training, students can naturally continue their linguistic progression through the various modules offered by Hexagone Aviation School. Depending on their objectives, they can opt for Aviation English, TOEIC preparation, FCL.055 preparation, or continue their learning through individual or group courses. This continuity allows for the consolidation of acquired knowledge, the deepening of skills, and the guidance of each learner towards an English proficiency level consistent with their personal, academic, or professional ambitions.
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