Progress Test 6

Question 1

What’s the “transition layer”?

Answer 1

The gap between the transition altitude and the transition level

Question 2

When should the suffix “hectopascals” be added to a pressure setting?

Answer 2

When the setting is below 1000

Question 3

Regional pressure settings are values of QFE. True or false?

Answer 3

False

Question 4

What does ROGER mean?

Answer 4

I have received all of your last transmission

Question 5

How should the altitude 2,800ft be spoken?

Answer 5

Altitude two thousand eight hundred feet

Question 6

What’s an ASR?

Answer 6

Altimeter setting region

Question 7

What does “WILCO” mean?

Answer 7

I’ve understood your transmission and will comply with your instruction

Question 8

How should the following frequencies be spoken: 132.250, 128.900, 119.725?

Answer 8

“One three two decimal two five zero”, “one two eight decimal nine”, “one one nine decimal seven two five”

Question 9

What’s the correct pronunciation of the following letters: K, N, U, X?

Answer 9

“KEY-LOH”, “NO-VEM-BER”, YOU-NEE-FORM”, “ECKS-RAY”

Question 10

The call “golf Juliet bravo climb to flight level tree Fife” is correct phraseology. True or false?

Answer 10

False

Question 11

When reporting your distance from the ground, what term should be used when QFE is set on the altimeter?

Answer 11

Height

Question 12

An ATSU instructs you to “squawk 4501 and STANDBY”. What does this mean?

Answer 12

Do not answer, set the transponder to 4501, and wait for the ATSU to call you back

Question 13

When should the word “degrees” be appended to a heading?

Answer 13

When the heading ends in a zero

Question 14

What’s the correct abbreviation of the call sign “CESSNA G-BNRL”?

Answer 14

Cessna ROMEO LIMA

Question 15

How do you pronounce “MET”?

Answer 15

As a single spoken word: MET

Question 16

Explicitly, what does “climb to altitude 3,000 feet” mean?

Answer 16

Climb to and maintain 3,000 feet (QNH set on altimeter)

Question 17

When can you abbreviate your call sign?

Answer 17

When first abbreviated by the ATSU, and when no confusion will exist

Question 18

Transmissions of time are:

Answer 18

Always in UTC and in either 4 digits, or 2 digits if the hour is unambiguous

Question 19

How do you pronounce “CTA”?

Answer 19

Each letter pronounced as a letter: “C” “T” “A” (not phonetically)

Question 20

What does the word CONTACT mean?

Answer 20

Change frequency. I’ve already passed your details to the next station. You need only make an initial call without your full details