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“see and be seen

Air traffic control began in the early 1930’s with only one rule _____

ATC

provides service assistance on a traffic flow and direct the aircraft safe and orderly in a controlled airspac

Prevent collisions between the aircraft and on the maneuvering areas (terrain)

provides service assistance on a traffic flow and direct the aircraft safe and orderly in a controlled airspac

Functions of an ATC

Two – way radio

also known as transceiver that uses a portion of the very high frequency (VHF) range to transmit and receive radio communication

is between 118.0 megahertz (MHz) and 135. 1975 (MHz)

Frequency range of VHF COM

LOS line of sight

VHF transmission is limited to ______

Squelch control

it adjusts how strong a received signal has to be to hear the audio. turning this increases the reception range to receive weaker signals

XMTR Transmitter selector switch

simultaneously selects the audio amplifier associated with that transmitter to provide speaker audio. For example, if the number one transmitter is selected, the audio amplifier in the number one NAV/ COM is also selected and is used for ALL speaker audio

AUDIO SELECTOR SWITCHES

These switches allow receiver audio to be directed to the airplane speaker or to a headset, and heard singly or in combination with other receivers. To hear a particular receiver on the airplane speaker, place that receiver's _________ in the up (SPEAKER) position. To listen to a receiver over a headset, place that receiver's __________in the down (PHONE) position. The center (OFF) position turns off all audio from the associated receiver.

30-300 KHz

L/FM Band freq range

3 - 30 MHz

HF Band freq range

30 - 300 MHz

VHF freq range

300 MHz - 3 GHz

UHF Band

ATIS Automatic Terminal Information System

is a continuous broadcast of recorded information at selected high activity terminal areas.

OKTAS

unit of measurement to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location

Control Tower

– Controls all airborne traffic within a specified airport area. Both landing and take-off is a primary responsibility of the _______ of all VFR traffic within the airports traffic area. (10 miles radius and 3,

Ground Control

– Is the segment of air traffic control system that is responsible for the separation of traffic moving on the airport surface.

Ramp Control

– The purpose of the ramp control service is to expedite and maintain orderly movement of aircraft from apron to taxiway gates and vice versa.

Departure and Approach Control

– Are sometimes located separately from the tower. These facilities provide traffic through the use of radar and are most commonly used for IFR operations

UNICOM

– A privately operated air/ground communication station which transmits on a limited number of frequencies where in you can get advisory information and also request other information services.

MULTICOM

– Frequency that provides aircraft in the area to use for air to air communication which are essential to activities being performed by, or directed from, private aircraft.

Emergency Frequency

– The assigned international emergency is 121.5 MHz which all pilots must commit to memory; the initial call up is: “MAYDAY (3x)”. If the pilot desires to only alert ground personnel he then must preface his call with “PAN-PAN (3x)”

Flight Service Station (FSS

) – Are ATC facilities used extensively by pilots during crosscountry flights, current altimeter settings, advisories and pre-flights weather briefings of significant values.

Aircraft traffic

traffic that is – Prior to take-off and after landing, aircraft shall contact ground control

Vehicular traffic

– traffic that are to be used on runways and taxiways shall be provided with radio equipment capable of maintaining two-way voice communications with ground contro

clipping

Do not release the transmit switch until you have finished speaking, a term known as _____

Acknowledge

(Phrase) Let me know that you received and understood this msg

Advise (HR)

(Phrase) Tell us/ Inform us/ of / about…

Affirm

(Phrase) Yes

Airborne (HR)

(Phrase) the time the flight has started after TO phase

Approved

(Phrase) Permissino granted

Break

(Phrase) i hereby indicate the separation between portions of this message (to be used when there is no clear indicatino between the text and other portions of the message)

break break

(Phrase) i hereby indicate the separation between messages transmitted to different addresses in a very busy environment

cancel

(Phrase) annul previous msg

caution (hr)

(Phrase) beware

check

(Phrase) examine a sys or proc

cleared

(Phrase)authorized

climb (hr)

(Phrase) climb to maintain

comply (hr)

(Phrase) act in compliance with req or ins

confirm

(Phrase) i req verification of

contact

(Phrase) est comms with

correct

(Phrase) true or accurate

correction

(Phrase) an error has been made, the correct version is…

cross (hr)

(Phrase) fly/taxi across. pass from one side to the other

depart (hr)

(Phrase) leave

departure(hr)

(Phrase) take off, departing

descend(hr)

(Phrase)descend to maintain

disregard

(Phrase) ignore

estimate (hr)

(Phrase)Calculate/ make approx calcn

expedite (hr)

(Phrase)speed up increase speed

hold hr

(Phrase) keep in place/ condn

hold short hr

(Phrase)keep at a dist/ keep away of/ stop before reaching destination

how do you read

(Phrase) what is the readability of the xmsn

immediately hr

(Phrase) at once, w/o delay

i say again

i repeat for clarity or emphasis

leave hr

depart, abandon, go away from

look out for hr

(Phrase) view over, survey inspection (watch out for risk/hazard)

maintain

(Phrase) continue in accordance wth the condns

monitor

(Phrase) listen out on freq

negative

(Phrase) no/ permission not granted/ not correcttrfgd/ not capable

out

(Phrase) end of transmission (mostly for vhf comms)

over

(Phrase) xmsn ended and i expect a response (norm vhf)

read hr

(Phrase) hear and understand

read back

(Phrase) repeat all or specified parts of message

recleared

(Phrase) a change has been made to ur last clearance and this new clearance supersedes ur prev clearance or part thereof

report

(Phrase) pass me the following information

request

(Phrase) i wish to know/ i would like to obtain

revision hr

(Phrase) reconsidered or corrected version/ calculation of time

roger

(Phrase) i have received all of ur transmission

say again

(Phrase) repeat all or the following part of your last transmission

slow down hr

(Phrase)reduce speed

speak slower

(Phrase) reduce rate of speech

squawk hr

(Phrase) set mode code as ins

standby

(Phrase) wait and i will call you

unable

(Phrase) i cannot comply with your request, ins or clearance

verify hr

(Phrase)check and confirm w originator

wilco

(Phrase) will comply

words twice

(Phrase)as req: comm is diff please send xmsn twice

as info: since comm is diff, xmsn will be sent twice

 Name of the station addressed

 Identification of the aircraft

 Nature of the distress condition

 Intention of the person in command

 Position, level and heading of the aircraft

 Any other useful information

elements of distress

121.5 khz

vhf emergency freq

243/406

uhf emer freq

 squawk 7700 for 1 minute on transponder to alert ATC that you are in Gen. Emergency

 Squawk 7600 (no radio code / operating) for 15 minutes

 Enter the pattern and wait for the light gun signal

When flying within any radar service,

during comms fail

120.3

Binalonan radio freq

135.1

RPUG UNICOM

121.9

RPU CTAF (multicom)

108-117.95 khz

VHF NAV freq range

Check receiver volume is set to optimal level

Listen out to the freq being used

Radio techniques before transmission

Speak w normal voice

Speak with an even rate of speech

Maintain a const volume

Dont hesitate on what youre saying

Dont release the ptt until done w xmsn (clipping)

Radio techniques: mic ops