Understanding the lingo?!

     

Understanding the lingo yet?

Hopefully if you have been following this blog in these early stages and had no previous knowledge on radio-telephony, you will have developed you understanding and ability to interpret and speak the 'lingo'. 

Many aviation enthusiasts, trainee air traffic controllers and pilots do interesting things in there spare time...

... Like listening in to air traffic control via Liveatc.net, or recorded operations posted on the internet. 

Just like living in a foreign country, listening to conversations between air traffic controllers and pilots, helps develop your radio-telephonic language and the understanding of why radio-telephony and phraseology is so important for safe operation.  

Below are some of my favourite videos to listen to. Occasionally, I stream these videos onto my iPhone, in my pocket while in the gym, travelling or doing other activities. Always interesting to listen to and extremely entertaining.

Enjoy

Click here Tablet users for : video 1    video 2   video 3 

Radio-telephony (Phraseology)

Phraseology

Phraseology is one of the many essential factors contributing to the safe operation of flights around the world. Along side the Phonetic alphabet, phraseology aids the enhancement of the language a prospective pilot possesses, to the standard of a commercial pilot.

Below is an extract of phraseology from the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority).

Below is a video from the FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) key factors and demonstrating phraseology in action!

For mobile and tablet users please click here

Basic Radio-telephony

Learning the Phonetic Alphabet

The phonetic alphabet is not just  for pilots, police and other professions that use radios, it can even be used if your on the phone and the person can't quite understand your post code! 

If you are a an aspiring pilot however, or desire a profession in aviation it would benefit you to try to learn the phonetic alphabet. It is a very basic and small aspect of the radio telephony modules you will eventually study and use on a day-to-day basis. 

Below you will find a table of the alphabet along with the code words in phonetic terms and the correct way to pronounce the code words. There is also a video to aid those who would like to hear it spoken and a quiz to test your new acquired knowledge.

Please have a try!

For the video click here if using a mobile or tablet device



QUIZ

Click here to test your knowledge in a competitive quiz!