ICAO Standards for Language Skills and Current Language Ability of Students of Aeronautical Faculty

The introductory part of the article deals with the issue of licensing of aviation personnel in general. It explains the meaning and content of the basic international legal standards for the licensing of aviation specialists at the global level, but also at the level of the European Union countries. It highlights the importance of the linguistic competence required for the licensing of aviation professionals. After the theoretical part, the article presents the main research tasks carried out in recent years in the field of language training and their results. The research was carried out with students of the Faculty of Aeronautics of the Technical University in Košice, as well as with experts from aviation practice. Based on the relevant results, potential possibilities of implementation in the conditions of the Faculty of Aeronautics of the Technical University of Košice are proposed. The most significant disadvantages of each of them are presented for both options and for the potentially more advantageous option the possible way of its practical implementation is also presented.