- Subjects
- Published
-
Newcastle, Wash. :
Aviation Supplies & Academics
c2004.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 3rd ed
- Item Description
- Includes one folded colored chart.
- Physical Description
- various pagings : ill., maps ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9781560275732
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The ABCs of Communicating
- The Pilot-Controller Partnership For Safety
- Doing Things by the Book
- Can't We All Just Get Along?
- Mike Fright
- Technobabble Not Spoken Here
- Licensing
- Hello, Operator?
- 2. Understanding Your Equipment
- Look At All Those Knobs and Buttons!
- Transceivers
- GPS/Communication Devices
- Squelch
- Mikes
- Speakers
- Headphones
- Boom Microphones
- Intercoms
- Audio Panels
- Transponders
- Handhelds
- 3. A Matter of Procedure
- Why You Have Two Ears and One Mouth
- What's In A Name?
- Say It All in One Breath
- "Roger, Wilco, Over and Out"
- Other Readbacks
- Be Brief...But Clear
- "Say Again?"
- Similar Callsigns
- Type Confusion
- Communicating an Emergency
- Simplex vs. Duplex
- I Love A Mystery
- Hooked On Phonics
- 4. Class G Airspace
- There's Not Much Of It
- UNICOM and MULTICOM
- Let's Go Bore Some Holes in the Sky
- You Want Fries With That?
- The Tower of Babble
- When is a Tower Not a Tower?
- Summary
- 5. Class E Airspace
- It's Your Typical Flight Environment
- Departing Harvey Field
- Over the Top of Paine Field
- Extensions
- Making Position Reports
- Radar Flight Following
- Handoffs
- Terminating Radar Service
- Requests and Clearances
- Strange Field Entry
- Departing a Strange Field in Class E Airspace
- No Radio (NORDO)
- Special Visual Flight Rules
- Beneath the Ceiling
- Summary
- 6. Class D Airspace
- When is a Tower Not a Tower?
- Tower Frequencies
- Class G Tower?
- "What's the ATIS?"
- Ground Control
- Progressive Taxi
- Departures
- Hold Short
- "Taxi into Position and Hold"
- Wake Turbulence
- Intersection Takeoffs
- "Request Frequency Change"
- Blocked Frequency
- Special Visual Flight Rules (SVFR)
- Satellite Airports in Class D Airspace
- Arriving At Olympia
- Strange Airport Arrival
- In the Pattern and on Final Approach
- Adjusting the Pattern
- Night Operations
- Landing Alternatives
- Land and Hold Short (LAHSO)
- NORDO
- Departing a Satellite Airport
- Just Passing Through
- When Your Eyes Deceive You
- UNICOM at Tower-Controlled Airports
- Summary
- 7. Class C Airspace
- Radar Required
- When Class C is Not Class C
- Transponder Use
- Arrival
- Departure
- SVFR
- Satellite Airports
- "Piper 70497, Stand By"
- TRSAs
- Summary
- 8. Class B Airspace
- Clearance Required
- Approach and Departure Control
- Just Passing Through
- Landing at the Primary Airport
- Departing an Airport in the Class B Surface Area
- Departing From a Satellite Airport Beneath Class B Airspace
- Summary
- 9. Class A Airspace
- It's for the Chosen Few
- 10. Automated Flight Service Stations
- Service is Their Middle Name
- Making Contact
- Special Use Airspace
- Filing Flight Plans
- Air-Filing Flight Plans
- Position Reports
- Close Your Flight Plan!
- Direction Finding Service
- Can You Tell Me Where There is a Hole?
- Flight Watch
- Pilot Reports
- Summary
- 11. The IFR Communicator
- What's the Difference?
- Filing Your Flight Plan
- OTP
- Write It Down
- Ready to Copy
- "Cleared for Takeoff"
- "Request a Vector To..."
- On the Way
- Sectorization
- Another Handy Trick
- Holding
- Expect the Unexpected
- Changing Altitude
- Pilot's Discretion
- "Say Heading"
- Using Your GPS
- Cruse Clearances
- Approach Clearances
- Radar Approaches
- Visual, Contact, and Circling Approaches
- Missed Approaches
- Practice Approaches
- Lost Communications
- "Minimum Fuel"
- Good Operating Practices
- Summary
- 12. Now That You Know the System...
- Teamwork
- When All Else Fails
- In Conclusion...
- Appendix A. Communications Facilities
- Appendix B. Airspace Definitions
- Appendix C. Clearance Shorthand