Requesting a weather deviation — Denied

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1. 0:00 NARRATOR: Chapter 117. Here is the scenario: Weather is ahead on your route. Practice
2. 0:06 requesting a course change and responding to the controller's instructions.
3. 0:13 NARRATOR: Your starting details: You are flying Evektor, registration N827EV. Your
4. 0:19 position is 8 miles east of Paine Field, indicated altitude 4500 feet. You are tuned
5. 0:26 to Seattle Approach. Your planned destination is Jefferson County.
6. 0:33 NARRATOR: Play the pilot. At each prompt, use the ten-second pause to respond aloud or
7. 0:39 decide whether to transmit. Then compare with the example. This is simulated radio
8. 0:44 practice.
9. 0:46 NARRATOR: Scenario update: You are already receiving radar service from Seattle
10. 0:50 Approach, with an assigned transponder code.
11. 0:54 NARRATOR: Your task: Weather blocks your assigned course. You judge a twenty-degree
12. 0:58 deviation to the right will keep you in VFR conditions. Request that deviation.
13. 1:12 PILOT: Evektor 827EV, weather ahead, request deviation twenty degrees right of course
14. 1:20 APPROACH: Evektor 827EV, unable requested deviation due to traffic, say intentions
15. 1:31 NARRATOR: Your task: Neither side offers a suitable route. You can safely turn back
16. 1:37 into clear conditions. State your intentions.
17. 1:49 PILOT: Evektor 827EV, unable to continue toward the weather, requesting a turn back
18. 1:54 toward clear conditions
19. 1:57 APPROACH: Evektor 7EV, turn back approved, maintain VFR
20. 2:12 PILOT: turning back, maintain VFR, Evektor 7EV
21. 2:17 NARRATOR: Chapter debrief: Turnback coordinated; original route abandoned rather
22. 2:21 than continuing toward weather.
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