All scenarios
Every practice scenario on radio.training, grouped by difficulty. Each one cites the guide sections it is drawn from and links straight into the app.
Beginner 5 scenarios
- Radio check at Langley Regional (CYNJ)Practises the standard radio check: calling the ground station, giving your full callsign, and reading back the signal report on the standard 1-to-5 readability scale.
- Taxi request at Langley Regional (CYNJ)Practises a taxi request: calling ground, stating your callsign and intentions, and reading back the assigned taxi route.
- Takeoff clearance at Langley Regional (CYNJ)Practises reporting ready for departure while holding short, then reading back a takeoff clearance with the correct runway and callsign.
- Radio check at Springbank (CYBW)Practises the standard radio check: calling the ground station, giving your full callsign, and reading back the signal report on the standard 1-to-5 readability scale.
- Takeoff clearance at Springbank (CYBW)Practises reporting ready for departure while holding short, then reading back a takeoff clearance with the correct runway and callsign.
Intermediate 14 scenarios
- Circuit calls & landing clearance at Langley Regional (CYNJ)Practises circuit reporting and a landing clearance: a downwind report, a final report, and reading back a landing clearance correctly.
- Taxi in after landing at Langley Regional (CYNJ)Practises taxiing in after landing: reading back a frequency change, then requesting and reading back taxi instructions to your parking area.
- Taxi request at Boundary Bay (CZBB)Practises a taxi request at a towered aerodrome that assigns a transponder code along with the taxi route, and reading all of it back correctly.
- Uncontrolled aerodrome arrival at Chilliwack (CYCW, MF)Practises the self-announced calls used arriving at an uncontrolled aerodrome on the mandatory frequency: an inbound call, a joining call, and a final call, each broadcast blind with no response expected from the ground.
- Circuit calls & landing clearance at Pitt Meadows (CYPK)Practises circuit reporting and a landing clearance: a downwind report, a final report, and reading back a landing clearance correctly.
- Asking for a circuit exercise at Boundary Bay (CZBB)Practises requesting a circuit exercise, such as a touch-and-go, from the downwind leg, handling a possible 'unable' from ATC, and reading back a landing clearance.
- Departure from an uncontrolled aerodrome at Brampton (CNC3, ATF)Practises the self-announced calls used departing an uncontrolled aerodrome on the aerodrome traffic frequency, with the UNICOM closed so nothing answers: a taxi broadcast, a ready-for-departure broadcast, a taking-off broadcast, and a call leaving the area.
- Sent around at Langley Regional (CYNJ)A curveball drill on short final. The runway is not always still yours when you get there, and the right reply is three words long.
- Traffic you cannot see at Pitt Meadows (CYPK)A drill about telling the truth on frequency. The answer that sounds most competent is not always the one you are allowed to give.
- Out to the practice area from Abbotsford (CYXX)The flight you make more than any other while training, and three calls the circuit never asks for.
- Circuit calls & landing clearance at Oshawa Executive (CYOO)Practises circuit reporting and a landing clearance: a downwind report, a final report, and reading back a landing clearance correctly.
- Circuit calls & landing clearance at Waterloo (CYKF)Practises circuit reporting and a landing clearance: a downwind report, a final report, and reading back a landing clearance correctly.
- Circuit calls & landing clearance at Villeneuve (CZVL)Practises circuit reporting and a landing clearance: a downwind report, a final report, and reading back a landing clearance correctly.
- Circuit calls & landing clearance at St. Andrews (CYAV)Practises circuit reporting and a landing clearance: a downwind report, a final report, and reading back a landing clearance correctly.
Advanced 10 scenarios
- Full circuit session at Boundary Bay (CZBB)A full gate-to-gate circuit session: a taxi request, a line-up-and-wait instruction, a takeoff clearance, downwind and final reports, a touch-and-go and a full-stop circuit, a landing clearance, and taxiing in, each with its own readback.
- Ready for departure at Langley Regional (CYNJ)A curveball drill. You are ready to go and the frequency is busy. Read back what you actually hear, not what you expect to hear.
- Busy frequency at Langley Regional (CYNJ)A curveball drill. Another aircraft on frequency has a callsign uncomfortably close to yours. Know which clearances are yours.
- Ready for departure at Boundary Bay (CZBB)A curveball drill at one of the busiest training fields in Canada. Not every instruction that sends you onto the runway means you can go.
- Taxi with a squawk and a hold short at Abbotsford (CYXX)Practises a taxi request that bundles a transponder code, a taxi route, and a mandatory hold-short instruction into one readback before contacting Tower.
- Inbound to the zone at Abbotsford (CYXX)Call in to a busy control zone at a major airport, get sequenced behind other traffic, and hold when you are told to.
- Ready for departure at Springbank (CYBW)A curveball drill. You are ready to go and the frequency is busy. Read back what you actually hear, not what you expect to hear.
- A rough-running engine near Abbotsford (CYXX)The call almost nobody practises until the day they need it. Something is wrong but not yet dangerous, and there is a correct way to say so.
- Arriving at Langley Regional (CYNJ) on a grey afternoonAn ordinary inbound call on a grey afternoon, and a controller with news. Know what to ask for, and how.
- Cross-country: Abbotsford to ChilliwackYour first flight that goes somewhere: a flight plan, a published departure out of the zone, and an inbound call at the other end.