Lecture 10: Communication and Flight Information

MIT Private Pilot Ground School, IAP 2019 Instructor: Philip Greenspun, Tina Srivastava View the complete course: YouTube Playlist: This lecture covered topics of radar and ATC services, radio procedures, and sources of flight information. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at More courses at 0:00 Introduction 2:29 What is a Transponder? 5:17 Transponder Operations 5:56 Transponder Squawk Codes 11:18 Requesting Radar Services 14:25 Practice Question 16:04 Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) 17:47 Example ATIS 18:15 Flight Service Stations (FSS) 19:20 Phonetic Alphabet 21:15 Numbers 23:29 Radio Procedures 25:26 Radio Example 27:21 Common Traffic Advisory Frequency (CTAF) 27:45 CTAF/UNICOM Procedures 28:57 Radar Facilities 31:30 Emergency Procedur