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I also got one wrong (wonder if it was the same one? I gotthe SAFETYCOM one wrong!). However, I can tell you, that those questions are harder than those asked at ATPL VFR Comms exam!
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Whirls
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6 out of 7 so no perfect but acceptable
got the mid-channel question wrong.
Pleased to see that the actual quiz correctly uses the acronym 'RTF' for Radio Telephony instead of the incorrect 'R/T' as above and on the airspacesafety website.
Mind you, it's a bit off in my view using the letter 'F' for the 'ph' of phony, a bit like Reading Writing and Arithmetic being referred to as the 3 'Rs'.
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Got the mid-channel one wrong as well. Apparently there is no difference between "report" and "report position", while I thought there was.
Plus, it reinforces the point we were making in another thread about a week and a half ago, before it was closed by the moderators. G-EMMA will know which one.
(Keeping it a bit vague here so I don't spoil the fun for others.)
Plus, it reinforces the point we were making in another thread about a week and a half ago, before it was closed by the moderators. G-EMMA will know which one.
(Keeping it a bit vague here so I don't spoil the fun for others.)
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Not exactly a "rocket science" quiz is it? I did ok (1 wrong...the mid-channel one) despite being an 11 hour student with no RTF training for aviation purposes. I think I may need something a bit more difficult before taking the real exam!
As I've discovered, knowing the answers and doing it for real are totally different things. I use a radio at work and have an amateur radio licence but, despite this, I still go totally cr@p when in a plane. Good example:- calling downwind last week when I was actually on final
. I suppose I'll get the hang of it in the end!
As I've discovered, knowing the answers and doing it for real are totally different things. I use a radio at work and have an amateur radio licence but, despite this, I still go totally cr@p when in a plane. Good example:- calling downwind last week when I was actually on final
. I suppose I'll get the hang of it in the end!
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Jaycee, G-EMMA, I had no radio experience at all before my flight training started, so I bought a second hand aviation band scanner (cost me about 40 euros) and spent hours and hours listening to the R/T at my local airfield (which happens to be Schiphol). Helped me a lot in adjusting to the speed and phraseology, understanding what's been said, listening out unconciously for your own callsign etc. As a result, I've never had mike fright or anything.
Oh, and you should hear some of the mistakes the professional, big boys make. All the time. Readbacks are really there for a reason!
Oh, and you should hear some of the mistakes the professional, big boys make. All the time. Readbacks are really there for a reason!
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I don't get mike fright but as yet I've not got the capacity to talk any sense whilst trying to fly and navigate at the same time
Me (to ATC): "G-XXXX C172 from cranfield to yyy 2 POB err blah blah blah.."
Me (To Instructor): "You do it"
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RT
Its a well known fact that the press to transmit switch is wired to your brain- as you press the button the connection to your brain is disturbed and you cannot make any sense whatsoever.
There's a great website to have on in the background so that you subconsciously pick up RT skills- or make yourself feel better by listening to professionals say 'blah blah blah' too. Its www.liveatc.net, you can listen to ATC from all around the world.
There's a great website to have on in the background so that you subconsciously pick up RT skills- or make yourself feel better by listening to professionals say 'blah blah blah' too. Its www.liveatc.net, you can listen to ATC from all around the world.
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