CH26 / COMMUNICATIONS Flashcards
What does QDR mean?
Magnetic bearing from the station
If you are requested to report your height, to which Q-code-setting would you refer?
QFE
Which Q-code is used to report altitude?
QNH
What does ATIS mean?
Automatic Traffic Information Service
What is the Q-code for “magnetic heading to the station (no wind)”?
QDM
What does CTR mean?
CONTROL ZONE
What Is the Q-code for “true bearing from the station”?
QTE
What is the Q-code for “magnetic bearing from the station”?
QDR
QNH is the Q-code to indicate:
The altimeter sub-scale setting to obtain elevation when on the ground.
What does QDL mean?
I intend to ask you for a series of bearings.
What does QNE mean?
What indication will my altimeter give on landing at … (place) at … hours, my sub-scale being set to 1013.2 millibars (29.92 inches)?
A radio direction finding station will use the following Q code to pass a true heading (no wind) to an aircraft to head for that station:
QUJ
The order of priority of the following messages in the aeronautical mobile service is:
Distress message, urgency message, direction finding message
What Is the correct way of transmitting the number 3500 when indicating an altitude or an height?
Three thousand five hundred
During the transmission of numbers containing a decimal point:
The term Decimal must always be transmitted
The time is 9:20 A.M. What is the correct way of transmitting this time if there is no possibility of confusion about the hour?
Two zero
Which phrase shall be used If you want to say: AN ERROR HAS BEEN MADE IN THIS TRANSMISSION {or message Indicated). THE CORRECT VERSION IS:
QNH 1017, correction QNH 1016
A message preceded by the phrase TRANSMITTING BLIND DUE RECEIVER FAILURE shall be transmitted:
On the frequency presently in use
Which phraseology Is to be used to ask the control tower for permission to taxi on a runway in the direction opposite to that In use?
“Request back track on runway”
Which phrase shall be used If you want to say:” Yes”:
Affirm
The phrase used by ATC to instruct you to listen out on a frequency is:
MONITOR
What is the radiotelephony call sign for the aeronautical station providing surface movement control of aircraft on the manoeuvring area:
GROUND
What is the radiotelephony call sign for the aeronautical station providing approach control radar departures:
DEPARTURE
The Initial call from an aircraft, callsign AIR INDIA 285 weighing more than than 136 tonnes would be:
AIR INDIA 285 HEAVY
On the readabllity scale what does “Readability 3” mean:
Readable but with difficulty
A test call shall not continue for more than:
10 seconds
King air VT-ABC receives the following instruction: “V-BC climb straight ahead until 2500 feet before turning right, wind 270 degrees 6 knots, cleared for take- off’’. What is the correct read back:
Straight ahead, at 2500 feet right turn, cleared for take-off, V-BC
Which elements of instructions or information shall always be read back?
Runway in use, altimeter settings, SSR codes, level instructions, heading and
speed instructions
When the term “Overcast” is used in an aviation routine weather report (METAR), the amount of clouds covering the sky is:
100%
What is the correct way of expressing visibility?
Visibility 1200 metres
When the term “Cavok” is used in an aviation routine weather report (METAR) the values of visibility and clouds are:
Visibility 10 km or more, no clouds below 5000 feet/GND
When the term “Broken” is used in an aviation routine weather report (METAR) the amount of clouds covering the sky is:
5 to 7 octas
When the term “Scattered” is used in an aviation routine weather report (METAR), the amount of clouds covering the sky is:
Half or less than half (3 or 4 octas)
An aircraft station fails to establish radio contact with an aeronautical station on the designated frequency. What action is required by the pilot:
Attempt to establish contact with the station on an alternative frequency
In the event that a pilot is required to make a blind transmission, this should be made:
Twice on the designated frequency
Distress is defined as:
A condition of being threatened by serous and/or imminent danger and requiring immediate assistance
Under which of the following circumstances shall an aircraft squawk 7700?
In distress
An aircraft in distress shall send the following signal by radiotelephony:
MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY
The frequency used for the transmission of a “MAYDAY” call shall be:
The frequency currently in use
An urgency call content is to be as follows:
PAN PAN PAN (on the frequency in use), name of station addressed, the nature of the urgency condition, the intention of the person in command.
An “Automatic Terminal Information Service” provides:
Routine information to arriving and departing aircraft by means of continuous and repetitive broadcast
When flying on a SW heading at 3500 feet you would report your heading and level as:
HEADING 225 AT THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED
What is the radiotelephony call sign for the aeronautical station indicating area control centre (no radar):
CONTROL
What is the radiotelephony call sign for the aeronautical station indicating approach control radar arrivals:
ARRIVAL
A BLIND TRANSMISSION is a transmission:
From one station to another when there is no communication but where it is believed that the caller station is able to receive the transmission.
To indicate that he is no longer occupying the active runway a pilot shall report to the controller:
Runway vacated
An aircraft encountering radio communication failure on an IFR flight in IMC is assumed to:
Proceed in accordance with the current flight plan to the designated navigation aid serving the destination aerodrome
An aircraft encountering radio communication failure on an IFR flight in IMC has to commence descent over the designated navigation aid serving the destination aerodrome (no EAT received):
At, or as close to, the ETA resulting from the current flight plan
A protected medical transport is identified by the prefix:
PAN PAN MEDICAL
Which of the following statements is correct?
The urgency communications have priority over all the other communications, except distress
The VOLMET broadcasts include information about:
METARs for selected airfields.
What is the correct way of transmitting the number 13500?
One three thousand five hundred
What, if any, is the abbreviated call sign of Air India 5345?
No abbreviated form
The maximum theoretical range at which an aircraft at FL80 can obtain bearings from a ground VHF facility sited at 325ft above MSL is:
134NM
A frequency of 295 KHz would be described as:
LF
In radio terms, frequency means:
The number of complete waveforms passing a spot in one second.
The wavelength of HF is?
Metric
The wavelength of Weather radar is?
Centimetric
What is the wavelength and waveband of a radio aid that uses a frequency of
19 cm?
1.579 Ghz. / UHF
