Study Session 6

Question 1

CTAF

Answer 1

Common traffic advisory frequency
Carries out airport advisory practices for an airport without an operating control tower
Can be UNICOM, MULTICOM, FSS, or tower frequency
Pilots monitor CTAF 10 NM from airport (inbound or outbound)

Question 2

UNICOM

Answer 2

Aeronautical advisory communications station
Can be weather, conditions, runway information, etc.
advisories to airports without an FSS or tower

Call CTAF UNICOM if you want to actually talk to a person

Question 3

ATIS

Answer 3

Automatic terminal information service
Continuous transmission
Latest weather report and conditions
Relieves ground controllers and approach controllers workload
Absence of sky and visibility means ceiling is above 5,000 ft and more than 5 statute miles

Question 4

MULTICOM

Answer 4

Used for self announced procedures at airports without ATC or FSS or UNICOM

Will be identified on charts as CTAF

Question 5

Airport with an operating tower has

Answer 5

Ground control - taxiing
Tower control - active runway and vicinity of airport
Sometimes approach and departure control
ATIS
Sometimes clearance delivery - obtain departure instructions before contacting ground control

Question 6

Most important factor in pilot controller communications

Answer 6

Understanding

Question 7

Spoken numbers below 9,900

Answer 7

Separated out

9,900

Niner thousand niner hundred

Question 8

Spoken numbers above 9,900

Answer 8

Separated out

10,000

One zero thousand

13,500

One three thousand five hundred

Question 9

Spoken airway numbers

Answer 9

Kept together

V12 = Victor twelve

Question 10

Miscellaneous spoken numbers and decimals

Answer 10

Separated

10 = one zero

Say decimal point if a radio frequency has a decimal in it

Question 11

Spoken Flight levels and altitude

Answer 11

Above 18,000 ft separate out numbers

12,500 = one two thousand five hundred

At and above 18,000 say flight level followed by separate digits

19,000 = flight level one niner zero

Question 12

Spoken directions

Answer 12

Will always be magnetic unless stated

050 true course = zero five zero true

Wind velocity has speed always included with direction

Three four zero at one zero

ATC give wind in magnetic while FSS gives wind in true

Question 13

Spoken speeds

Answer 13

Separate digits followed by knots

250 = two five zero knots

Question 14

Aviation time

Answer 14

24 hour clock
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Zulu (Z) may denote UTC

24 hr clock is also used in radio transmissions - separate out numbers