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Private Pilot Licence · Subject 2, AC61-3Flight Radio is the shortest exam at 25 questions in 40 minutes, and most of it is standard phraseology: what you say, when you say it, and what you must read back. It is often the first theory exam a student sits, and it is a good one to warm up on. Our bank of 200 questions is written to Subject 2 of AC61-3.
Flight Radio is phraseology and procedure. These three are range, the standard words and the speechless code; the de-brief below is an urgency call, and the emergency procedures turn up in nearly every exam.
Answer each one and you see what the de-brief shows after a paid exam: the correct option, the reasoning and the syllabus item it came from.
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The physical transmission range of a VHF radio signal is primarily limited by:
VHF signals propagate as 'Space Waves' that travel in straight lines and do not bend. Therefore, the visual horizon created by the curvature of the earth acts as a hard physical limit to the reception range.
In standard radiotelephony, the word 'BREAK' is used to indicate:
The term 'BREAK' is used to clearly separate complex messages or to distinguish between instructions directed at two different aircraft during a single continuous transmission.
To effectively utilize the speechless communication technique, the pilot must press:
Pressing the PTT switch transmits an unmodulated VHF carrier wave that the Air Traffic Controller hears as an audible click or static burst, allowing basic binary communication.
A wrong answer in Flight Radio is usually a phrase said the intuitive way rather than the standard way. The de-brief gives the standard phrase and the reason it is standard.
After a paid exam it is emailed to you as well, so it is still there the night before the real sitting.
Q12 You have a very sick passenger requiring urgent medical attention upon landing. This situation warrants:
A severe medical issue concerns the safety of a person on board, which meets the criteria for an Urgency (PAN PAN) call. It does not qualify as a Mayday because the aircraft itself is not in imminent danger.
Syllabus 2.14.2 · Flight Radio · AC61-3
The questions cover both controlled and uncontrolled aerodromes, because the New Zealand syllabus does, and the emergency section turns up in nearly every exam.
The shortest exam of the six, and a good one to sit first: the material is what you use on every flight, and the sitting teaches you the rhythm of an Aspeq exam without much at stake.
Our exam is 25 questions in 40 minutes, matched to the Aspeq sitting. Pass mark 70%.
The Flight Radiotelephone Operator Rating is issued under Part 61 and requires the written exam plus a practical assessment. This exam covers the written part.
Many instructors suggest Flight Radio or Human Factors first because they are short and the material is used from your first solo. There is no required order.
Many students sit Flight Radio first. It is a good exam to learn the rhythm of a sitting on.
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25 questions on a 40-minute clock, drawn fresh from the Flight Radio bank. Bookmark, skip, come back, submit when you are done. Progress survives a dropped connection.
Score and pass or fail on screen straight away, then the full de-brief by email: every question you got wrong, what you chose, the correct answer, the reasoning and the syllabus reference to revise.
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