Callsigns: yours and the station's

Every call carries two names: the station you call and your own callsign. You learn the three types of aircraft callsign, when yours may be shortened, and what a station's callsign tells you about who answers.

What you learn

• Name the three types of aircraft callsign
• Shorten D-EFGH to D-GH, but only after ATC does
• Explain why some callsigns are never shortened
• Read a station callsign as location plus unit
• Tell Delivery, Ground, Tower, Radar, Information and Radio apart

In playlists

• Radio calls and phraseology

Also on

• Video course: VFR Radiotelephony