LIBRARY 003 · SPOKEN CHAPTER 128 · 1:48
Catch it. Correct it. Read it back.
Recognize a runway readback error and practice a clear correction.
Your scenario
You are flying Evektor, registration N827EV. You are holding short of runway 34R. You are tuned to Paine Tower. Your intended VFR departure is to the east. You have ATIS information Golf.
Practice goals
- Identify a deliberately incorrect readback.
- Hear the controller correction.
- Repeat the actual assigned runway without moving.
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 128. Here is the scenario: You're holding short at Paine Field.
- 0:06 Practice spotting a mistaken readback and responding to the controller's correction.
- 0:13 NARRATOR: Your starting details: You are flying Evektor, registration N827EV. You are
- 0:18 holding short of runway 34R. You are tuned to Paine Tower. Your intended VFR departure
- 0:25 is to the east. You have ATIS information Golf.
- 0:31 NARRATOR: Play the pilot. At each prompt, use the ten-second pause to respond aloud or
- 0:37 decide whether to transmit. Then compare with the example. This is simulated radio
- 0:42 practice.
- 0:45 NARRATOR: Scenario update: The scenario starts with you hold short for runway 34R.
- 0:49 Initial contact has already been established; there is no outstanding
- 0:53 clearance to enter or land on the runway.
- 0:58 NARRATOR: Scenario update: The next pilot transmission deliberately demonstrates an
- 1:02 incorrect readback. Listen for the correction.
- 1:07 TOWER: Evektor 827EV, hold short runway 34R
- 1:12 PILOT: hold short runway 34L, Evektor 827EV
- 1:18 TOWER: Evektor 7EV, negative, hold short runway 34R
- 1:32 PILOT: hold short runway 34R, Evektor 7EV
- 1:37 NARRATOR: Chapter debrief: Communication recovery complete; no unacknowledged
- 1:42 instruction remains.
- 1:45 NARRATOR: If you enjoyed this video like and subscribe
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