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The Pilot's Radio Communications Handbook (Tab Practical Flying) | 
 enlarge | Author: Paul E. Illman
Publisher: Tab Books
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 2124021
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4th Rev
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 232
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.5 x 1
ISBN: 0070317577
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.13251
EAN: 9780070317574
ASIN: 0070317577
Publication Date: March 1994
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Condition: New hardcover...........as pictured
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Book Description
Paul Illman covers everything VFR pilots need to know to communicate with confidence from the cockpit. Pilots will find the latest information on new FAA airspace reclassifications, requirements for Mode C transponders in Class B (TCA) airspace, and the consolidation of Flight Service Stations into regional Automated Flight Service Stations. Readers also find new material on radio communications procedures for in-flight emergencies, pilot responsibilities in and around controlled airports, and comparisons of radio procedures for the various kinds of terminal airspace. Illman uses examples to show the right and wrong way to communicate with ground-based services.
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 Informative easy to understand March 20, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
contains all you need to know about aviation communication easy to understand and retain.
 Really good book to get you ready to take on mic fright October 22, 2001
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book to familiarize yourself with air traffic control and tower talk. I'm a private pilot and I learned in a relatively low trafficked area in Maine. The Portland tower was nearby but I didn't take advantage of it too much. I read the book one summer while I was still a student pilot . . . when I went up with an instructor and we headed to a towered airport he was very impressed on how I knew how to call them up and respond to them, I understood the flow of frequency changes well, and understood all the instructions I received from ATC before he ever taught me any of that stuff. Even if you are already a pilot, but still avoid going to towered airports because you're afraid of getting embarassed you should most definitely get this book.
The actual examples he gives are right on the money. The good part is that he give you variations on how to say the same thing so in case you hear it differently from someone you'll be ready. I don't really have any complaints with this book that I can think of at the moment. It's helpful to VFR student, and actual pilots, it has realistic examples, good explanation of why things are the way they are with ATC, explains the ATC environment well. Get it!
 Useful, but not written very well. June 21, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The book is useful, and it was badly needed when it was first published, but it was not written very well. For every paragraph of substantial or useful information, there is a page of repetition and imprecise fluff-- the book would have been twice as good had it been half as long. Again, the book is good and will not be a waste of money, but there are other pilot communication books out now that deserve a closer look. Don't assume that this book is better simply because it is longer.
Great book for learning communications protocol June 1, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great book for learning communications protocol for the various conditions a private pilot will encounter, and for helping to organize the cockpit relative to radio communications management. I believe it's a "must-read" for every private pilot.
The Pilot's Radio Communications Handbook January 5, 2000
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Absolutely essential, first rate information, and the guy can even write. It's an interesting, informative book that stresses clarity and concise communication with the tower and other planes. I can't recommend it enough.
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