Radio Communications Flashcards
What is the squawk code for a radio failure?
7600
If you are in uncontrolled airspace and plan to enter controlled airspace but have a comm failure, what should you do?
Avoid entering the controlled airspace, as you wont be able to talk to the controllers. Divert, if you can, to somehwere that does not require a clearance/permission to enter.
If you have no other option and must land at a controlled airport during a comms failure, what are the procedures to follow?
Squawk 7600
Follow NORDO procedures
Look for light signals from tower
What should you do prior to a NORDO flight if you plan to enter controlled airspace?
Call the control tower of the airspace to let them know your intentions and to secure a clearance to enter the airspace. They will then be expecting you and can give you light signals.
**To operate in class C, you must aquire such a clearance
In the air, what does a steady green light mean?
Cleared to land
In the air, what does a flashing green light mean?
If I was previously waved off, it means I can come back for landing. I would then wait for a steady green.
In the air, what does a steady red or red flare mean?
Give way to other AC and continue circling.
I would wait for a flashing green after this to return for landing.
In the air, what does a flashing red light mean?
Airport unsafe, do not land
In the air, to acknowledge that I have seen light signals, what should I do?
Rock my wings (day)
Flash landing light (night)
On the ground what does a steady green and a flashing green light mean respectively?
Steady Green - Cleared for takeoff
Flashing Green - Cleared for taxi
On the ground, what does a steady red and flashing red light mean respectively?
Steady Red - stop
Flashing Red - taxi clear of runway in use
On the ground what does it mean when tower flashes the runway lights?
Get off the runway NOW
On the ground what does a flashing white light from tower mean?
Go back to your starting point
On the ground, how do you signal to the controller that you have heard and will follow their instructions?
Wiggle controls all around. Ailerons, rudder, and elevator.
What does it mean if you see projectiles bursting into red and green stars?
You are in the vicinity of a restricted area, alter course.
Only used in the US
How must you join the circuit if you are flying NORDO?
You must join from the upwind side, join crosswind at circuit height, then turn onto the downwind leg.
When you are on final, NORDO, and the tower has not given you a steady green light, what should you do?
Pull up and go around
After landing NORDO, is a taxi clearance required to continue?
No, a taxi clearance (flashing Green) is only required to cross a runway or to taxi back to a turn off point.
