Communications
- Category: 090 Communications
- Lead SME: Huw Millar
What Does Communications cover?
Communications covers the way we transmit our messages, how radio waves work, the appropriate use of professional language for both VFR & IFR flights in and around the aerodrome as well as in the cruise.
It includes:
- The needs for standard RT and safety
- Types of transmissions
- Transmission techniques - good and bad
- Pronunciaton of letters, numbers and aviation terms
- Callsigns - abbreviations
- Frequency bands used in civil aviation – radio navigation and communication
- VHF frequencies
- Look at light and medium aircraft communications equipment
- Transponders & TCAS
- Phraseology & pronunciation in the aerodrome, and aloft
- Different types of messages & their priority
- Weather reports
- Emergency Messages
- Data link communication