Pilot's communications Handbook

Pilot's communications Handbook

Featuring the newest VFR -- as well as IFR -- regulations and procedures, this new edition includes the most current information needed to become proficient in the area of radio communications.

An up-to-the-minute sourcebook on pilot radio communications, this handbook adds important depth to the most thorough treatment of how to communicate confidently from the cockpit. In addition to the updates of preceding editions, there are two brand-new chapters: one covers NTSB-provided examples of incidents caused primarily by human errors in communication; the other gives guidelines designed specifically to help pilots becomes more skilled communicators in an era of ever-busier airspaces and airports.

Radio communication skills are surprisingly underaddressed in modern pilot training. This essential reference fills the gap with detailed coverage encompassing all the fundamentals - including radio facilities and communication responsibilities. With specific examples of how to conduct dialogue, and how dangerous assumption-making can be in the course of communicating, the book offers thorough grounding in: how to avoid communication failures airspace classifications summary - controlled and uncontrolled airspaces defined Multicom airport radio communications (including a simulated landing and takeoff using Multicom) Unicom airport radio communications (including a simulated landing and takeoff using Unicom) Flight Service Stations and radio communications Automatic Terminal Information Service Ground Control transponders Approach/Departure Control working with Air Route Traffic Control Centers on VFR flights what to do if you have radio failure cross-country flight competence in cockpit communications About the Author:

Paul E Illman is an experienced single- and multiengine pilot. He is also the author of the Pilot's Air Traffic Control Handbook, and the Pilots Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge. Softcover, Copyright 1998, Indexed, 263 Pages