TowerTalkTowerTalkWork through each exercise and its prompts against the AI controller — Requests, Readbacks, Reports, Risks.
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One question from each of the 12 exercises below, against the AI controller, then a graded summary of where you are strong and what to work on. The full exercises — every question, feedback on every call — are part of Plus.
Practise making initial requests to ATC.
Practise reading back instructions from ATC.
Practise position reports.
Practise emergency calls.
Requesting an ATS service, MATZ penetration and zone transits.
The radio calls for flying a standard circuit.
Conditional clearances, Special VFR, level changes and diversions.
Requesting an air traffic service, and crossing a Military Aerodrome Traffic Zone.
Establishing contact for a Radio Mandatory Zone, and Transponder Mandatory Zone requirements (CAP 413 Edition 24).
Inbound joins, the standard overhead join, and circuit instructions — orbit, land after, and go-around.
Zone transits and Special VFR, SAFETYCOM blind calls, responding to traffic information, and recognising station types.
Requesting and using VHF Direction Finding bearings — QDM, QDR, QTE — and the phraseology peculiar to a VDF call.
Listen once and write down what you heard — timed and scored on the key items. Gets longer and harder as you go.
Worked through the four Rs? Prove it.
Sit a full mock FRTOL exam under exam conditions and get a pass/fail read — a practice estimate, not the official test.
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