English in Aeronautics is issued in its third edition, a revised, modified and extended version of the previous one. Revisions, modifications and extensions became necessary first of all because more attention was placed on speaking >skills, considering the professional profile (aspiring pilots and air controllers) of many aeronautical schools students, and the communicative competence that, independently from future choices, is necessary in all cases; secondly, because the continuous technological evolution made necessary the updating of some parts.

English in Aeronautics is subdivided into 5 Modules. Module 1 contains general topics on the aeronautical world, which are dealt with in an informative way, which is suitable for intermediate students: the air, flying animals, and the history of flying and, finally, of aircrafts. The other modules are advised for advanced language study, and comprise topics such as: the theory of flying, the airplane parts, the materials employed in the construction of aircrafts, and air navigation. Module 5 is especially designed for Aeronautical Technical Institutes.

English in Aeronautics proposes two fundamental objectives:
• furthering the assimilation of aeronautical terminology;
• developing and applying the four skills, so as:
- to enable the comprehension of texts with technical-aeronautical contents and, more generally, technical texts independently from the studied microlanguage; to this purpose, it deploys comprehension and text exploitation techniques enabling a reading process taking place entirely in L2;
- to obtain the necessary communicative language competence to master both aeronautical and general English.