LIBRARY 122 · SPOKEN CHAPTER 115 · 3:00
Requesting a weather deviation — Alternative offered
Request a deviation before entering conflicting weather.
Your scenario
You are flying Evektor, registration N827EV. Your position is 8 miles northeast of Paine Field, indicated altitude 4500 feet. You are tuned to Seattle Approach. Your planned destination is Skagit Regional.
Practice goals
- Request a deviation before entering conflicting weather.
- Handle approval or an unavailable route.
- Report clear before resuming navigation.
Respond aloud during each ten-second practice window, then compare with the example. Replay any exchange you want to practice.
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- 0:00 NARRATOR: Chapter 115. Here is the scenario: Weather is ahead on your route. Practice
- 0:05 requesting a course change and responding to the controller's instructions.
- 0:10 NARRATOR: Your starting details: You are flying Evektor, registration N827EV. Your
- 0:16 position is 8 miles northeast of Paine Field, indicated altitude 4500 feet. You are
- 0:22 tuned to Seattle Approach. Your planned destination is Skagit Regional.
- 0:29 NARRATOR: Play the pilot. At each prompt, use the ten-second pause to respond aloud or
- 0:35 decide whether to transmit. Then compare with the example. This is simulated radio
- 0:40 practice.
- 0:42 NARRATOR: Scenario update: You are already receiving radar service from Seattle
- 0:46 Approach, with an assigned transponder code.
- 0:50 NARRATOR: Your task: Weather blocks your assigned course. You judge a twenty-degree
- 0:54 deviation to the right will keep you in VFR conditions. Request that deviation.
- 1:08 PILOT: Evektor 827EV, weather ahead, request deviation twenty degrees right of course
- 1:16 APPROACH: Evektor 827EV, unable right deviation due to traffic, can you accept a
- 1:24 left deviation?
- 1:28 NARRATOR: Your task: The left route is clear and acceptable. Reply to the offered
- 1:32 alternative.
- 1:43 PILOT: Evektor 827EV, left deviation is acceptable
- 1:48 APPROACH: Evektor 7EV, deviation left of course approved, report clear of weather
- 2:03 PILOT: left deviation approved, will report clear of weather, Evektor 7EV
- 2:09 NARRATOR: Your task: Time advances along the approved deviation. You are now clear of the
- 2:14 weather and the onward route is clear.
- 2:27 PILOT: Evektor 7EV, clear of weather, request resume own navigation
- 2:32 APPROACH: Evektor 7EV, resume own navigation
- 2:45 PILOT: resume own navigation, Evektor 7EV
- 2:51 NARRATOR: Chapter debrief: Weather bypass complete and own navigation resumed.
- 2:57 NARRATOR: If you enjoyed this video like and subscribe
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