Reports

The calls in this exercise

1. Prompt 1 of 5

   Give a procedural position report to London Information. You are G-ABCD, overhead Beccles at time 25, altitude 2000 feet, next position your next reporting point, ETA 35.

   The point to get right: Procedural reports use the CPTANE format: Callsign, Position, Time, Altitude, Next position, ETA. Example: 'G-ABCD, Beccles, two five, altitude 2000 feet, your next reporting point, three five'. Note what is NOT in it: no QNH, no aircraft type, no flight rules — a procedural position report is those six items and nothing else.

2. Prompt 2 of 5

   Norwich Radar replies: "G-ABCD, squawk 7312, pass your message." You are G-ABCD, a Cessna 152, flying from Norwich to your next reporting point, overhead Beccles at altitude 1900 feet, QNH 1013, VFR routing via the following reporting point. Read back the squawk, then pass your message.

   The point to get right: Pass your message uses CARPAI: Callsign, Aircraft type, Route from/to, Position, Altitude/QNH, Info (VFR, routing). The squawk must be read back FIRST before the CARPAI report.

3. Prompt 3 of 5

   You are G-ABCD joining the circuit at Norwich, runway 09 (left hand). Make the joining downwind report to Norwich Tower.

   The point to get right: Format: 'G-ABCD, JOINING DOWNWIND (09 LH)'. The runway designator in brackets is good airmanship though not strictly mandatory.

4. Prompt 4 of 5

   You are G-ABCD under a Traffic Service with Norwich Radar. They transmit: "G-ABCD, traffic one o'clock, three miles, crossing right to left, indicating 200 feet below." Acknowledge it, and report again once you have the traffic in sight.

   The point to get right: Two transmissions, not one. Acknowledge first with 'G-ABCD, roger' — CAP 413 §5.26: you have the information but not yet the traffic. Then, once you have it: 'G-ABCD, traffic in sight'. If you have looked and still cannot see it: 'G-ABCD, traffic not sighted' (§5.27). Keep both brief: once two-way contact is established you do not repeat the station name, and you do not repeat the clock position back — the controller passed it to you.

5. Prompt 5 of 5

   You are G-ABCD, a Cessna 152, 8 miles east of Norwich at altitude 2000 feet, inbound to land there. Make the inbound call to Norwich Tower.

   The point to get right: An inbound call gives position, level, aircraft type and your request: e.g. 'Norwich Tower, G-ABCD, Cessna 152, 8 miles east, altitude 2000 feet, inbound to land, request joining'. Full callsign on this first call to the unit.

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