Radio calls

This issue has been highlighted by the Fixed-wing flight training strategy.

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This page provides resources to support pilots to improve radio calls and achieve the 4Cs of effective communication: Clear, Concise, Consistent, and Correct. Radio calls support situational awareness and the identification of possible conflicting traffic. The better your situational awareness, the lower your risk of an occurrence.

Vector Online: Are you a 'crowing rooster’? And how’s the rest of your radio technique?

Vector article – Spring 2022 – Are you a 'crowing rooster'? [PDF 103 KB]

Good Aviation Practice: Plane talking

Discusses effective communication, standard phraseology, writing down radio calls, ATS and communications failure.

GAP: Plane talking

Vector Online: Slow down those radio calls

Discusses the use of colloquial reporting points, pronunciation, communicating clearly and slowly along with listening to radio calls and making a mental map of where traffic is.

Vector Online: Slow down those radio calls

Vector Online: Too much noise in the CFZ, too little in the MBZ

Discusses essential radio inside a CTZ and a MBZ and listening out to enhance a pilot’s mental map.

Vector Online: Too much noise in the CFZ, too little in the MBZ

Vector Online: C’mon guys – be kind

Discusses the need for respect and poise in radio calls.

Vector Online: C’mon guys – be kind [PDF 85 KB]

Vector Online: The risk to safety through mispronouncing Te Reo Maori VRPs

Discusses pronunciation of VRPs.

Vector Online: The risk to safety through mispronouncing te reo Māori VRPs

Flight Instructor Guide: Radio Failure

What to do in the event of a radio failure.

Radio failure