SimplyATPL › 090 Communications
Communications (090) covers VFR and IFR radiotelephony: definitions, general operating procedures, ATC clearances and readback requirements, meteorological information, distress and urgency procedures, communication failure and the phonetic and numeric conventions.
Free, no sign-up. The practice paper uses the question count and time limit from CAA guidance for this subject. Check the CAA for the current figures before your exam.
It is a short paper, but the options often differ by a single word in a standard phrase. Knowing the exact phraseology and readback rules is what earns the marks.
In the practice desk you can sit a full 34-question paper under exam conditions, or drill one syllabus topic at a time. Questions you miss come back after 1, 3, 7, 16 and 35 days, so weak areas get repeated until they stick.
Every topic below has practice questions, and you can drill any of them on its own.
Five questions from the bank. Each one in the practice desk has a worked explanation like these.
Answer: C. The name of the station addressed
Then the callsign, nature of the emergency, intentions, position, level and heading.
Answer: B. Two thousand five hundred
Whole hundreds and thousands are spoken as such.
Answer: C. 118.000 to 136.975 MHz
108 to 117.975 MHz is used for navigation aids.
Answer: C. Squawk 7600, stay in VMC and land at the nearest suitable aerodrome
Then report arrival to ATC.
Answer: B. Routine weather reports and forecasts for aircraft in flight
Typically METARs and TAFs for a group of aerodromes.