Creation of a good ATC Tutorial (Complete from Pilots POV AND ATC POV)

[Samuel123abc]

Sequencing:

The Art of Sequencing: A Guide to Success

The Art of Sequencing: A Guide to Success (Note: Tower will be handling all this. You can’t always have approach to help you out… Time to get your hands dirty if things get busy. ^-^) Sup, guys? Today, we’re going to be looking at one of the absolute essentials of controlling- sequencing. Nowadays, sequencing is of absolute vitality in order to maintain order (see what I did there?) in a cacophony of aircraft chaos. Are you ready to find out what sequencing is all about? Good! First off, bu…

Flying a pattern:

How to fly a (visual) pattern

A pattern can be flown in different ways. First of all, you will be cleared to fly a left or right hand pattern. This is straightforward: if you are cleared to make a left hand pattern all your turns will be to the left and if you are cleared to fly a right hand pattern all your turns will be to the right. To inform the tower that you want to remain in the pattern you will communicate when you request take off: “callsign XXX ready for take off runway XX, remaining in the pattern” What does a …

Contacting radar frequencies:

How to contact a radar frequency

I see this everytime I’m on Departure, Center, or Approach. 50% of users or more are contacting the frequency in the wrong way. So I thought I would write something on how to contact a radar frequency. So you have just departed your airfield and your going to another airfield. Upon departure you will either be handed to Departure, Approach, or Center depending on what’s available, once handed off your first contact should be your intentions. “Radar vectors”, “ILS approach”, “Flight followi…

Back taxiing:

"Back taxi" when arriving into an airport

Hello guys, This is my another tutorial on the exit runway command (The most confused one) - Back Taxi Always try to avoid back taxi, it saves a lot of time and helps the tower controller. Pilots aren’t able to request back-taxi currently This is only available to the Tower frequency so don’t change your freq. on the runway. [image] Now we see that we’ve landed, and there’s no exit available! What to do now? - Wait for the tower to give you a command like this as shown below. #Don’t cha…

Landing clearances:

Option & Landing- The Clearance

Okay, here’s something that I feel needs a little clearing up… After being PMed by a user regarding events at Birmingham recently, I’m here to clarify the difference between cleared to land and cleared for the option. First off, if you’re cleared for the option, then report again for a full stop, you won’t get another clearance for landing- you’re already cleared for the option. Cleared for the option covers EVERYTHING- including a full landing/stop on the runway and taxiing back to the termin…

More landing clearances:

Inbound on the ILS- Confusion Cleared

Foreword: Hey all! Before I post my next chunk of tips in the next few days, I’ve come to the conclusion that I feel there needs to be a topic dedicated to the massive confusion regarding the “inbound for the ILS” and “inbound for landing/touch and go” situation. None of you are alone in this- a large number of advanced controllers are also confused on this issue as well. I had to learn how the differences work the hard way, as I wasn’t aware about this until nearly a month ago. You guys get t…

Hope this helps a little bit at least :)