Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
How about making sure he is fluent with the phonetic alphabet as a first step
Day one at RAF Shawbury, the Central Air Traffic Control School, and the first part of the first lesson is...
Spell your surname, backwards, phonetically.
The fact that I was very familiar with the alphabet, having been listening to radio traffic for years while at school, made it easy for me.
Nowadays I hear people flying who just don't seem to have studied it in any form.