Compass Aviation English Academy is a fully owned subsidery of Beat Australia. Compass has developed the Flight Deck courses which are designed for international pilots, air traffic controllers and ramp controllers who need to gain an operational level 4 in an ICAO approved language proficiency test.

Or, it can be used to consilidate their level 4 ability and push their language skills to another, higher level. 

In non-routine or emergency situations where standard radio phraseology does not suffice, the ability to communicate competently in a common language is paramount to safety.

✓ Students will receive Face to Face instruction from a qualified Beat Australia language instructor.

✓ Students will receive their own individualised log-in and password details to the Flight Deck program.


✓ Course units are interactive and combine video and authentic radio telephony communication audio components.


✓ Students have the opportunity to move through the course units at their own pace.


✓ Results are given to all students and course units can be repeated if necessary.


✓ Companies are able to enrol large numbers of students at one time.


✓ Companies with employees enrolled in the Flight Deck program will receive regular feedback from the Flight Deck program on their employees progress.

✓ Will see demonstrated, measurable language development in the receptive and productive macro skills of listening and speaking which are essential to an ICAO approved level 4 test.

✓ Will see improvent in fluency and comprehension with topics relevant to the various stages of flight and general radiotelephony situations.

✓ Participate in a test preparation course for an ICAO approved language proficiency test.

✓ Demonstrate strategies related to self management of their own learning.

Flight Deck consists of three course levels. Basic, Advanced and Pro.

Flight Deck (Basic) is a free of charge program which provides the aviation student the key vocabulary and grammatical structures used during aviation training and post training environments.

It is specifically designed in 5-modules to develop the technical language skills necessary to interact in English with training manuals, CBT, flight instructors and ATC.

Flight Deck Basic is the introductory Flight Deck program first leads into Flight Deck Advanced and then Flight Deck Pro.

All 3 programs combined equal 55 Modules, with 275 Units containing over 2,000 Language Tasks covering a complete range of Aviation English topics.