Projects:EASA PPL/Communications

• Aeronautical station: on land, sea
• CTR: Control Zone
• CAVOK: vis 10km+, no clouds below 5000 above GND

Operational hours

• H24: 24h service
• HJ: sunrise to sunset
• HN: sunset to sunrise
• HO: to meet operational requirements
• HS: at scheduled operations
• HX: no specific working hours

Q-Codes

• • QFE: height
  • QDM: Magnetic heading to the station
  • QDR: Magnetic bearing from station
  • QTE: True Bearing from station
  • QUJ: True to

Messages

• Message priorities:
  • 1) Distress
  • 2) Urgency
  • 3) Direction finding
  • 4) flight safety
  • 5) meteorological
  • 6) flight regularity
• Flight safety message: ATC messages
• "Please call taxi" to aeronautical station: unauthorized message
• Correct message: QNH 1017, correction QNH 1016
• Repeat: Say again
• Will comply: Wilco
• Yes: Affirm
• Received last transmission: Roger
• Request: Pilot: "Request Flight Level 100", "Request Vectors"
• Please send information: ATC: "Report speed"
• Call sign abbreviation: XY-ABC -> X-BC
• Call sign abbreviation: Cherokee XY-ABC -> Cherokee BC
• Call sign abbreviation: only after used by ground station
• Radio check: Bremen Tower XY-ABC radio check 118.7
• Read back: Runway, altimeter settings, squawk code, level+heading+speed instructions
• Position reports: Identification, Position, Time, Level, next position and time over, ensuing significant point
• No SSR/Squawk: "Negative Transponder"
• VOLMET
• RVR: runway visual range
• Transmitting blind: Transmit 2x, also advise next transmission