Exercises
Work through each exercise and its prompts against the AI controller.
Exercise A: Requests
Practice making initial requests to ATC.
Exercise B: Readbacks
Practice reading back instructions from ATC.
Exercise C: Reports
Practice position reports.
Exercise D: Risks
Practice emergency calls.
Exercise E: Services & transits
Requesting an ATS service, MATZ penetration and zone transits.
Exercise F: Circuits
The radio calls for flying a standard circuit.
Exercise G: Conditional & non-standard
Conditional clearances, Special VFR, level changes and diversions.
Exercise H: Services & MATZ
Requesting an air traffic service, and crossing a Military Aerodrome Traffic Zone.
Exercise I: Mandatory zones (RMZ & TMZ)
Establishing contact for a Radio Mandatory Zone, and Transponder Mandatory Zone requirements (CAP 413 Edition 24).
Exercise J: Joining & the circuit
Inbound joins, the standard overhead join, and circuit instructions — orbit, land after, and go-around.
Exercise K: Airspace transit & unattended aerodromes
Zone transits and Special VFR, SAFETYCOM blind calls, responding to traffic information, and recognising station types.
Exercise L: Getting a bearing (VDF)
Requesting and using VHF Direction Finding bearings — QDM, QDR, QTE — and the phraseology peculiar to a VDF call.
Copying practice
Listen once and write down what you heard — timed and scored on the key items. Gets longer and harder as you go.