Operational and activity component of development of professional (foreign-language) communicative competence of air traffic management controllers

The article is devoted to the flight safety on the international airlines. ICAO Assembly has signed Resolution А 32-16, relating to the role of language factor in aviation incidents and accidents. The aim of the research is to define the key elements of operational component of air traffic controllers professional (foreign language) communicative competence development; to discover the peculiarities of their functioning in the process of air traffic controllers professional (foreign language) communicative competence development. The research methods, that were used, are: theoretical (the analysis of ICAO documents and literature sources, abstracting, classification and systematization of received data etc), empiric (monitoring, polling etc). The learning demands the full "knowledge dematerialization" or compact "rebuilding" of those thoughtful and practical operations and actions, used in professional activity. The operational component elements relating to civil aviation sphere and controller professional foreign language communicative competence development are described too. Scientific newness: for the first time operational component of air traffic controllers professional (foreign language) communicative competence development from the point of view of its components and functioning was defined. Practical value: the operational component elements, defined in this article, were implemented into professional training, which takes place on the basis of Training and Certification Center of Ukrainian Air Traffic Services Enterprise. Results: taking into account everything mentioned above we found that operational component of air traffic controllers professional (foreign language) communicative competence development is a very complex building, which is functioning relating to peculiarities of radiotelephony language, professional aviation activity and human-operator personality.