Monitor or contact

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1. 0:00 NARRATOR: Chapter 123. Here is the scenario: You're holding short at Paine Field.
2. 0:04 Practice handling a frequency change and deciding when the next controller expects a
3. 0:08 call.
4. 0:10 NARRATOR: Your starting details: You are flying Evektor, registration N827EV. You are
5. 0:15 holding short of runway 16L. You are tuned to Paine Ground. Your intended VFR departure
6. 0:21 is to the east. You have ATIS information Alpha.
7. 0:26 NARRATOR: Play the pilot. At each prompt, use the ten-second pause to respond aloud or
8. 0:32 decide whether to transmit. Then compare with the example. This is simulated radio
9. 0:37 practice.
10. 0:40 NARRATOR: Scenario update: The scenario starts with you hold short for runway 16L.
11. 0:44 Initial contact has already been established; there is no outstanding
12. 0:47 clearance to enter or land on the runway.
13. 0:52 GROUND: Evektor 827EV, monitor tower 120.2
14. 1:06 PILOT: monitor tower 120.2, Evektor 827EV
15. 1:13 NARRATOR: Your decision: You have switched to Paine Tower as instructed. Should you
16. 1:17 make an initial call or listen?
17. 1:29 NARRATOR: Explanation: Monitor means switch and listen. Do not make an initial call
18. 1:33 unless needed for safety; wait for tower to call you.
19. 1:38 NARRATOR: Scenario update: Time advances. Tower calls your aircraft.
20. 1:44 TOWER: Evektor 827EV, hold short runway 16L
21. 1:58 PILOT: hold short runway 16L, Evektor 827EV
22. 2:03 NARRATOR: Chapter debrief: Communication recovery complete; no unacknowledged
23. 2:08 instruction remains.
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