LANDING – HOW DIFFICULT IT CAN BE…

Posté le 28 octobre 2012 de Toni G.

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Warning – This voice communication does not comply with the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) recommendations. However, you can click off, and listen without reading the script on this video in order to jot down this radio communication for listening training purpose:

Click on the map above to enlarge. (U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration courtesy via Wikimedia)

These things happen.

Bearing reported with a ninety-degree error, then corrected;
Uncertainty of the downwind leg;
Traffic not in sight;
Uncertainty as to which airport is in sight;
Requests are said again;
Another airport in the vicinity with same runway configuration;
Traffic off course;
Within half a mile, no traffic in sight, and no radar tracking;
Pilot cannot hear at times or does not reply;
Confusion between ident and squawk;
Pilot does not know how to use the transponder;
Uncertainty of the type of aircraft, then corrected.

Landings may be difficult at times, indeed…

ICAO Language Proficiency Rating Scale – Grille de niveaux de langues (anglais OACI)

Posté le 27 novembre 2011 de Toni G.

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Référentiel fixant les niveaux OACI par compétences.

Cliquer sur le document « Echelle d’évaluation des compétences linguistiques » de la DGAC ci-dessous:

http://www.ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/grilleNotation_AESA.pdf

Attention, l’existence de mises à jour concernant ces documents est possible. Il convient dès lors de rechercher des compléments d’information auprès de votre administration ou auprès des autorités compétentes (la DGAC pour la France et surtout l’OACI).

HOLDING PATTERN & TEARDROP ENTRY REMARKABLY EXPLAINED

Posté le 1 septembre 2011 de Toni G.

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A holding pattern is nothing more than a big oval formed in a race-track shape that is designed to keep an aircraft in a specified space for a specified amount of time. A holding pattern can be published on either airway charts or terminal charts or can be unpublished, and specified by the air traffic controller. Watch the video (from 1’49 »):

ICAO Air Traffic Radiotelephony – Transmitting Numbers

Posté le 30 août 2011 de Toni G.

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Here is an audio/video file with transcript about how the numbers must be pronounced according to the ICAO (International Civilian Aviation Organization) standard. This is how aircrew members, and air traffic controllers should transmit the numbers.

CAUTION – There is not any exception for FL 100, and FL 200 according to the ICAO DOC 9432 Radiotelephony Manual, page 19, chapter 2.4.2, as it is pronounced « FLIGHT LEVEL ONE-ZERO-ZERO », and « FLIGHT LEVEL TWO-ZERO-ZERO ».
However, « Flight level one hundred » follows the French DGAC and the British CAA patterns.

Click on this video:

FLIGHT SAFETY at Schipol airport

Posté le 19 juillet 2011 de Toni G.

CNN’s Rebecca Anderson explains how the safety measures are ensured at Amsterdam’s Schipol airport. You can see in this video how the air traffic controllers work and guide the pilots in, and how the bird management and control personnel copes with BASH – Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard: