Improve your radiotelephony - The Flying Reporter

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  @franwoon · 4 years ago

  There’s an app here in Germany Called “VFR Flugfunk Simulator”. It offers procedures in German and in English. Runs on Mac &amp; Windows too. It shows approach &amp; airport plates and offers different approach and departure scenarios. <br><br>The solution shown here looks good too. I’ll have a look at it!<br><br>Great videos.

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• SD

  @sdwboss · 4 years ago

  I&apos;ve found VATSIM quite good for practicing RT - with a &quot;real&quot; virtual controller talking to you, and &quot;real&quot; virtual pilots on frequency too, there is definitely a pressure to perform!

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• ED

  @edbrook2018 · 4 years ago

  No way! It&apos;s max, I did my rt course and the exam with him at deanland. Splendid chap

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• MA

  @manifestgtr · 11 months ago

  It’s so interesting how your radio comms work over there. People getting remotely cleared for takeoff/landing at smaller fields, etc. That’s something that’s entirely alien in the US. For Class E and G ops, you’re almost always communicating on an airport’s CTAF then talking to an approach/departure once airborne if you want flight following. I’ve had many flights in relatively congested, complicated airspace where I’ve talked to a tower controller then essentially nobody for the rest of the flight. If an airport is quiet, you’re mostly just talking to yourself and transmitting in the blind on CTAF. There have been times when I’ve tuned over to approach or a nearby AWOS just to make sure my radios were still working properly.

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• SA

  @sabermaster80 · 4 years ago

  What a great idea this app is!! Radiotelephony is the one thing that always has concerned me about getting into aviation. I&apos;m an introverted man who has problems speaking to other people clearly at times, never mind ATC lol! It&apos;s more of a social anxiety thing that effects my speech sometimes but I feel I should be ok after a while in aviation due to the repetitive nature of the radio calls, I would get used to it eventually. But yeah I&apos;m still very nervous about radiotelephony, but this app will definitely help me with the nerves. Thank you jon &amp; the two gentleman behind the app too!

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• SI

  @SimonAmazingClarke · 2 years ago

  Brilliant idea. I like to think of RT as learning a song. You need to learn all of the words, in the right order. This way we know what to say, and what they will be saying back to us.

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• JA

  @jackglossop4859 · 3 years ago

  I’m learning at a tiny uncontrolled airfield and worried that I’m going to come out with crap radio skills. This might be the answer!

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• PE

  @peanuts2105 · 4 years ago

  I&apos;ve had my licence for two years now and I still find the radio the most stressful, especially reading back a long clearance. I always push myself by speaking to a controller or a zone transit for my flying

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• GO

  @Gobbbbb · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CkbG5X2Pak&amp;t=495">8:15</a> - PEN-PEN, declaring ink failure

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• SH

  @sheldonholy5047 · 4 years ago

  The fact that you only get to practice RT while flying is a big factor, but that&apos;s the same as most of the other aspects. One thing that helped me tremendously was using flight sim with Vatsim. Using Vatsim you can practice RT whenever you feel like.

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• TH

  @theflyingfrog · 4 years ago

  Very useful… will be recommending it to my French students preparing to take their English language proficiency test.

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• PE

  @peterandersson3812 · 4 years ago

  If you’re a student, I can recommend doing role play with a fellow student (or qualified pilot friend) to practice. That’s what we did when I was training a long time ago. The concept behind the app looks good, though. However you learn, you can’t do it by reading only: practice, practice, practice.

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