What the SRG1171 is, and who can sign it
What the form does
It sits alongside the two halves of the FRTOL itself: the written exam and the practical test. The form is the paperwork that turns a pass into a licence, so it is worth understanding before you book anything, not after.
Who may sign Section 4
Note what is not on that list: a school, a company, an app. The qualification is personal. It belongs to a named individual with a certificate or licence number, not to the organisation they work for, and it is that person’s name that goes in the box.
Where TowerTalk fits, and where it does not
- TowerTalk does not sign your form
- It is a training aid. It is not an ATO, not a DTO, and not a person with a certificate number. No amount of practice here produces a signature.
- Your instructor might, through TowerTalk
- A flying school using the Academy side can record a qualified trainer of their own, and that named person can sign for their own students. The entitlement is theirs, not ours — we only carry the record.
- What practice here is actually for
- Turning up to the practical already fluent, so the test is a formality rather than the first time you have said any of it out loud.
Finding someone to train and test with
Practise this at your airfield
Reading it is the easy half. Pick your own airfield, with its real frequencies and today’s weather, and say these calls out loud until they stop being something you remember and start being something you do.
Find your airfield →Written from the same vetted study data the app uses, and checked against it on 11 September 2026. TowerTalk is a training aid: your instructor and your examiner are the authority on whether you are ready.