For flight instructors: assign radio practice between lessons
radio.training lets a student practise Canadian VFR radio calls out loud with an AI controller, at real aerodromes, and get graded on each call against the NAV CANADA VFR Phraseology guide. There are also drills with nothing to say out loud: copying a clearance and the ATIS by ear, readbacks, numbers and callsigns, light signals, radio failure and the diversion. It is free and needs no account.
What it is, and what it is not
- It is practice for the words: the frame of a call, readbacks, numbers, standard phraseology, and reacting to what ATC actually says.
- Every scenario lists the sections of the guide, the TC AIM and the Canada Flight Supplement it is built on.
- It is not a substitute for your briefing or your judgement, and it is not for real-world operations.
How to assign it
Copy the link for a scenario or drill and send it to your student. It opens the app straight on that item. The flight test coverage page shows which items practise which Ex. 30 and Ex. 23 criteria.
Beginner scenarios 5
Intermediate scenarios 14
- Circuit calls & landing clearance at Langley Regional (CYNJ)
- Taxi in after landing at Langley Regional (CYNJ)
- Taxi request at Boundary Bay (CZBB)
- Uncontrolled aerodrome arrival at Chilliwack (CYCW, MF)
- Circuit calls & landing clearance at Pitt Meadows (CYPK)
- Asking for a circuit exercise at Boundary Bay (CZBB)
- Departure from an uncontrolled aerodrome at Brampton (CNC3, ATF)
- Sent around at Langley Regional (CYNJ)
- Traffic you cannot see at Pitt Meadows (CYPK)
- Out to the practice area from Abbotsford (CYXX)
- Circuit calls & landing clearance at Oshawa Executive (CYOO)
- Circuit calls & landing clearance at Waterloo (CYKF)
- Circuit calls & landing clearance at Villeneuve (CZVL)
- Circuit calls & landing clearance at St. Andrews (CYAV)
Advanced scenarios 10
- Full circuit session at Boundary Bay (CZBB)
- Ready for departure at Langley Regional (CYNJ)
- Busy frequency at Langley Regional (CYNJ)
- Ready for departure at Boundary Bay (CZBB)
- Taxi with a squawk and a hold short at Abbotsford (CYXX)
- Inbound to the zone at Abbotsford (CYXX)
- Ready for departure at Springbank (CYBW)
- A rough-running engine near Abbotsford (CYXX)
- Arriving at Langley Regional (CYNJ) on a grey afternoon
- Cross-country: Abbotsford to Chilliwack
Questions, corrections, or a scenario you would like for your aerodrome: email hello@radio.training or use the contact page.
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Sources
- NAV CANADA VFR Phraseology guide
- Transport Canada Aeronautical Information Manual
- Canada Flight Supplement
- Transport Canada Flight Test Guide, Private Pilot Licence (TP 13723)