ATPL Communications

di Matthew Dowell (Autore)

Matthew Dowell, 2026

Communications is one of the best returns in the ATPL. It is also the subject candidates most often fail twice. 34 questions. 60 minutes. 75% to pass. Subject 090 asks 79 objectives for 34 marks — 2.3 objectives per mark, among the best in the series. A subject this small should be a formality. It is not, because it looks like something you already know. Being understood is not the standard being tested. The examination asks what the prescribed word is, in what prescribed order, with what prescribed pronunciation. A pilot who has said something slightly wrong for two hundred hours will answer from habit and lose the mark. ATPL Communications is a complete revision guide and question bank for the EASA and UK CAA airline transport pilot licence theory examination, written by an airline captain and Chief Flight Instructor, and built on all 79 objectives for Subject 090. It gives the exact words. Where the answer is a form of words, this book gives that form of words, not a paraphrase. It teaches the rules now in force. SERA has been amended since the 2020 objectives were published. The communication failure procedure now provides a second transponder code, 7601, for an IFR flight that meets VMC and continues in VMC; older texts give 7600 for both. This book teaches the current rule. It tells you where the marks are. One page, before anything else. Distress and urgency feels like the most important chapter in the book and is worth three marks; call signs, read-back and phraseology are worth seventeen. What is in it Eight chapters: definitions, Q-codes and message priority; the phonetic alphabet, numbers, time and the standard words; call signs, read-back, radar phraseology and CPDLC; phraseology through a VFR and an IFR flight; METAR, ATIS, VOLMET and air reports; communication failure and light signals; distress and urgency; and the radio spectrum, VHF propagation and 8.33 kHz channels. Every chapter carries the confusable pairs the examiner likes to swap, the traps and why they work, one real flight, a table of the numbers you must own, and its own questions with worked explanations. 126 questions through the chapters, and a 34-question paper at the back weighted exactly as the examination is — and no question in it appears anywhere else. Thirteen diagrams drawn for this book. Written for the paper you are actually sitting. The main text follows SERA and the ICAO procedure, and boxes marked UK give the UK position where CAP 413 differs — the nine-element emergency message and the STUDENT prefix. Beyond the EU and UK. Written to the EASA ATPL(A) learning objectives, which also underpin the ATPL theory examinations of the United Arab Emirates (GCAA), Qatar (QCAA), Oman, Türkiye (SHGM), Singapore (CAAS), Malaysia (CAAM), Hong Kong (CAD), Sri Lanka (CAASL), Thailand (CAAT) and Pakistan (PCAA). A page at the front shows the paper this book serves with each authority and what to add from local sources. Where Communications is examined as two papers, 091 VFR and 092 IFR, the front matter maps the chapters to each. A revision guide, not a course of training: enrolment with an Approved Training Organisation remains a legal prerequisite. It contains no questions from any question bank — every question was written for this book. This is not a radiotelephony licence course; the practical R/T test is a separate qualification. One of fourteen books in the Mastering ATPL series, one for each ATPL(A) theory subject, all written to the same pattern.

• Autore: Matthew Dowell
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Matthew Dowell
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237925579