Radio Telephony Exams
Well after completing the RT course with Pete Stephens (an ATC at East Mids) I did some theory brush up for the written exam. I sat a load of mock exams, from the Pratt books, the PPL confuser and www.airquiz.com. Once happy I got myself booked in with Bev (another ATC at East Mids, who is a CAA examiner - Petes qualifications have now lapsed).
The written exam:
The normall CAA format: 40 mins, 30 questions, multiple choice 4 possible answers. After all the mock exams I had done I was happy I was going to pass I just wanted to get 100%
So I sped through the paper and completed it in 10 mins – so I went back through it again making sure I had not misread anything, and 20 mins into the exam I declared done.
Bev was surprised how quick I was, but then we sat down and discussed the oral exam
The oral exam:
We went through 4 pieces of A4 which were part of the exam.
1) The Instructions
2) The Flight map, showing the route and zones
3) The PLOG
4) The frequencies available for use on the map
She gave me 20 mins to work through the route and make any notes. She also said she didn’t want to see my writing a script out – lol.
So I worked through the route, noting down frequencies to use, point to make calls etc and distances for the pass your message calls. The 20 mins went very quickly.
Off to the exam room – a small box with the simulator in (headphones, switch box with push to talk and a light on the top) Apparently the light is used if you forget to do something on a leg that the instructions ask you to do.
So off I went, and let me say this was a very complicated route compared to what we had done on the course – it covered almost everything id ever seen or learnt or heard:
1) Mayday relay
2) PAN PAN and resume
3) MATZ penetration
4) LARS – RIS/RAS for danger area traffic
5) Pass your message
6) SVFR clearance.
7) QTE from a homer station
8) Call up for weather
9) Joining and landing using an AFISO.
Anyway, I made it through ok, with just a few slip ups namely:
1) I didn’t readback "5’s also" on the radio check
2) I got the mayday heading wrong, I though he said 200 degrees not 120 degrees so she said I should have said something along the lines of "Believe heading to be 200 degrees"
3) I asked for a RIS from LARS and she gave me RAS – which I read back , and I assumed she was just being generous – but I believe she wanted me to correct her and say "no RIS etc"
4) I tried to leave the Zone frequency before putting out a "Zone exit" or something along the lines of "7 miles from destianation, request frenquency change to "
5) On final join to land, I was asked to pass my message, so I did a full PYM but she said that wasn’t necessary.
All in all, I got quite a "bad exam" have spoken to others and they didn’t half as much in their oral exam.
Results:
Oral: She said I did very well – with the above points, but generally very good.
Written : YESS! 100% :) She said I must have had the text books in with me – tee hee.
Well that’s all over with now – just one more exam left – Aircraft Tech – oh and the GFT
The written exam:
The normall CAA format: 40 mins, 30 questions, multiple choice 4 possible answers. After all the mock exams I had done I was happy I was going to pass I just wanted to get 100%
So I sped through the paper and completed it in 10 mins – so I went back through it again making sure I had not misread anything, and 20 mins into the exam I declared done.
Bev was surprised how quick I was, but then we sat down and discussed the oral exam
The oral exam:
We went through 4 pieces of A4 which were part of the exam.
1) The Instructions
2) The Flight map, showing the route and zones
3) The PLOG
4) The frequencies available for use on the map
She gave me 20 mins to work through the route and make any notes. She also said she didn’t want to see my writing a script out – lol.
So I worked through the route, noting down frequencies to use, point to make calls etc and distances for the pass your message calls. The 20 mins went very quickly.
Off to the exam room – a small box with the simulator in (headphones, switch box with push to talk and a light on the top) Apparently the light is used if you forget to do something on a leg that the instructions ask you to do.
So off I went, and let me say this was a very complicated route compared to what we had done on the course – it covered almost everything id ever seen or learnt or heard:
1) Mayday relay
2) PAN PAN and resume
3) MATZ penetration
4) LARS – RIS/RAS for danger area traffic
5) Pass your message
6) SVFR clearance.
7) QTE from a homer station
8) Call up for weather
9) Joining and landing using an AFISO.
Anyway, I made it through ok, with just a few slip ups namely:
1) I didn’t readback "5’s also" on the radio check
2) I got the mayday heading wrong, I though he said 200 degrees not 120 degrees so she said I should have said something along the lines of "Believe heading to be 200 degrees"
3) I asked for a RIS from LARS and she gave me RAS – which I read back , and I assumed she was just being generous – but I believe she wanted me to correct her and say "no RIS etc"
4) I tried to leave the Zone frequency before putting out a "Zone exit" or something along the lines of "7 miles from destianation, request frenquency change to "
5) On final join to land, I was asked to pass my message, so I did a full PYM but she said that wasn’t necessary.
All in all, I got quite a "bad exam" have spoken to others and they didn’t half as much in their oral exam.
Results:
Oral: She said I did very well – with the above points, but generally very good.
Written : YESS! 100% :) She said I must have had the text books in with me – tee hee.
Well that’s all over with now – just one more exam left – Aircraft Tech – oh and the GFT
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