Practical RT exam PPL

31 May 2006

Went to Exeter and passed my practical RT (radio telephony) exam, I found it very easy given the amount of flying I’d done by this point.

It involved sitting in a different room to the examiner, connected via a headset, and a transmit button, and I was also given a map with route drawn on it ans some details about the imaginary aircraft (like callsign, type etc). I then had to make the radio calls as if I was flying the route for real, with the examiner acting the part of ATC.

The route (from memory) involved departing a towered airport, getting a flight following service from a radar service, transiting through a military air traffic zone (MATZ) and then arriving at a grass srip with just an air/ground radio.

imaginary

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