m0a.com m0a.com Towered radio communications were one of the things I struggled with early on in my training. I actually share a story of those early days in this video. All while teaching you proper Class D radio communications
Very helpful video. I can relate to what's being said, and it's comforting to know I'm not the only student who finds radio work challenging at times. Keep up the good work Jason!
Wow Jason!! I love that modern panel in that Skyhawk! it looks so clean, simplistic and functional. There are a lot of old dinosaur airplanes out there that need to be brought into the 21st century. Gorgeous plane!! BTW loved your online ground school. Just finished my Commercial pilot ground and passed the written last week. If you haven't used his MzeroA ground school, I strongly recommend it. I thought it was well laid out, the videos and tests were excellent and I consider it a far superior product to the King schools or Cessna ground schools I have taken.
You're awesome Jason, I've listened to you many times and have learned a lot. I became a private helicopter pilot in April, but your information about flying airplanes applies to helicopters also
Awesome quality and calm instructions. I fly commercially in Europe, in Germany (try listening to Lufthansa comms) they specifically seem to teach to first readback the callsign, after which they use their (for instance) mcp (in boeings etc), to read back the specific clearance, which they probably just dialed in. This is not common practice outside of germany though. Keep the video’s coming. Btw I am trying out starting my own channel, give my vids a try please. Thanks Jason!
Jason, that's so true, I wanted to give the airplane call sign first, but I was struggling with remembering the instructions, so I switched to say it at the end, and you just reinforced the same thing today in the video. Thank you for the wise advises.
It’s actually correct procedure to preface with your callsign before readbacks, so they know who is talking. Only rookies give the read back first and then follow with their callsign. Listen to center freq when airliners talk. It’s a Common GA mistake. He even proved himself wrong with this 10 seconds later. “Radio communication is easy. It’s just like ordering pizza...WHO ARE YOU...where are you...then what do you want.” You can repeat it to yourself real quick if you need to before responding or get good at quick short hand writing. Build good habit patterns early. Enjoyed the video Jason
I'm currently getting my private, should have my checkride around Mid January. Flying out of St Pete, FL. Always taxi with a window or door open in FL haha, it gets so hot.
I was"raised" at a pilot controlled airport and feared towered airports. Then I went to Army flight school where the first flight took me to a heliport with 5 lanes (parallel runways) and 10 students with instructors all flying closed traffic on CTAF.. barely knew what the flight controls did and trying to keep up with the radio was overwhelming to say the least. Flying is probably least about flying the aircraft and more about decision making and communications. Comes with time and a good instructor + self study.
….flying the airplane is always priority #1. Aviate, navigate, communicate….in that order. Don’t ever feel bad asking Atc to repeat something you weren’t clear about.
Hey Jason, thank you for all your infomational videos! They're big help! I have a question, what does it mean an airport that on sky vector shows as class B and D... example KPAH? Thanks!
It’s actually correct procedure to preface with your callsign before readbacks, so they know who is talking. Only rookies give the read back first and then follow with their callsign. Listen to center freq when airliners talk. It’s a Common GA mistake. He even proved himself wrong with this 10 seconds later. “Radio communication is easy. It’s just like ordering pizza...WHO ARE YOU...where are you...then what do you want.” You can repeat it to yourself real quick if you need to before responding or get good at quick short hand writing. Build good habit patterns early. Enjoyed the video Jason
Honestly, throughout my training I've noticed a mix of airliners and even military pilots give readback instructions before their callsign with what their reading back not everyone but a good number of them. Unless of course youre defining rookie differently.
@@fdfischer yes I see it too. They are all technically wrong lol...unfortunately the majors have lowered their standards for their hires, and the aviation community as a whole has gotten less talented. Now we are getting “zero hours to airlines” programs that check boxes and don’t focus on quality of training
So after you depart the airport, you can just go fly and do whatever you want such as maneuvers to the west after you clear their airspace? And then when you're ready to go back to the airport, you just contact tower and establish that 2-way radio communications before you enter that airspace right? Also, how would you get flight following to another airport at a class D like this? Would you just contact the local approach or ARTCC freq after departing and ask them for it? Thanks and these videos are a huge help!
When you did your flight control check during the pre-takeoff checklist, I did not see your knees move to be sure the rudder pedals moved correctly. Did you do that and I just couldn’t see?
Also, on the flight control check why, in a Cessna with the fabulous rear window, don’t you look back to be sure the elevator and rudder are moving correctly?
Before I start, I know you have a lot more experience and I don’t mean this in an offensive way, just an observation and recommendation. So I fly out a fairly busy class D airport regularly and I’ve gotten the chance to chat with some of the controllers. They’ve all said that cold calling is annoying to them because it ends up taking more time on frequency than just calling and saying what you want. Now with that, they did say to listen to the frequency and not call up if they’re obviously in the middle of something, but if you do call and they didn’t hear you or are on the landline, they’ll tell you to standby or go again.
Thank you my friend!!! We're not a flight school just an online ground school to prepare you for your knowledge tests, checkrides, and most importantly making you a safe real world pilot.
This is not an aviation question, but I watch lots of videos where ATC audio to other planes obscures the CFI. I’m wondering if a ‘ two track ‘ audio recorder could be used such that ATC and the CFI audio were on separate audio tracks. Then, when appropriate the ATC audio could be muted or reduced. . . . just an idea 🙂
I keep messing up the clearance to enter controlled airspace to return for landing. Pretty sure it's because we're at the end of the lesson and my head is battered. Could you do a video on this? I was really hoping to be flying yesterday and today, but as it would happen the helicopter is in several pieces getting work done!
Would a licensed pilot get a deviation for taxiing incorrectly like you did? Would it typically be reported to the FAA? Thanks for sharing. We all make mistakes we need to learn from.
gary wheeler yes. Closed traffic is for high power aircraft like fighters. It’s a much closer and tight pattern. On the go it’s a climbing 180* turn right over the tower followed by a quick descending 180 to land. There is no crosswind, downwind, base. It’s an “inside downwind” followed by a perch to short final. Typically it is higher than the normal VFR pattern as well to deconflict from other VFR traffic in the normal pattern
I feel bad for my instructor (needs to follow shirt/pants dresscode) in 95F heat in the NJ summer. We roll down the taxiway with everything open to cool it down in the 172 haha
In short Initial call from parking: “Ground, this is Cessna xyz, Taxi with ATIS _, West departure” Ground: Cessna xyz, RWY _, taxi via _ Read back: RWY _, taxi via _, Callsign Tower: Callsign _, RWY_, Cleared for Takeoff, Right turn approved. Read back: Cleared for takeoff, RWY _. Done ✅
Thomas Tancengin It’s actually correct procedure to preface with your callsign before readbacks, so they know who is talking. Only rookies give the read back first and then follow with their callsign. Listen to center freq when airliners talk. It’s a Common GA mistake. He even proved himself wrong with this 10 seconds later. “Radio communication is easy. It’s just like ordering pizza...WHO ARE YOU...where are you...then what do you want.” You can repeat it to yourself real quick if you need to before responding or get good at quick short hand writing. Build good habit patterns early.
Hi Ronald! In this video, Jason made sure no one was behind him. But you are right about not wanting to blow debris behind the aircraft. Thanks for watching!
You don’t but it’s a courtesy to usually make a “ground, [callsign] 2 minutes” and ground will tell the tower controller right next to him “he’s coming to you”
Good one, but you haven't turn your Aircraft Cross to the wind, means you can blow on any Aircraft behind you, while you are checking your engines. I guess you are still nervous..
Just for the record... The tower was inappropriate when asking you "What are you doing?" X2 it was a derogatory statement to chastise you and was not constructive and could have been dangerous if you were in the air. A proper statement by him might have been, plane number... It appears you are going the wrong direction... and then discuss it. If it is a dangerous situation he should have said to immediately stop. You should have filed a complaint on him. Remember, you pay his salary.
Hmm asking "What are you doing" to a knew pilot doesn't seem to be very friendly or helpful. A better question the ATC could have asked that would be less dramatic is "One One Juliet, I see you're not on the taxiway I cleared you for, please stop and turn around".
