Real ATC calls, graded against FAA phraseology — in your browser.
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No account · Thirty seconds
Airport: KVRB (Class D) · Tower: 126.3 · Callsign: Skyhawk Three Four Six Echo · Pattern work, runway 12R
You are in the pattern. The tower keys up. Your readback has to be right.
Every lesson opens with a sixty-second briefing — what the controller will say, and why. A quick check proves it stuck. Then you key the mic and say it yourself, graded word by word.
Brief
“Cleared for the option” means the choice is yours — touch-and-go, low approach, stop-and-go, or full stop.
Quick check
Tower clears you for the option. May you full-stop?
“Cleared for the option, runway two-seven, One Two Three Alpha Bravo.”
No forum folklore. Every grade cites its source — AIM Chapter 4 phraseology, AC 90-66 pattern calls, and JO 7110.65, the manual the controllers themselves fly by.
FAA · AIM
CH. 4
Radio phraseology
ADVISORY
AC 90-66
Non-towered ops
ORDER JO
7110.65
The controllers' book
PILOT / CONTROLLER
GLOSSARY
Every term, defined
Streaks, XP, and earned badges turn practice into a daily habit. Finish a chapter, pass its checkride, and the rating is yours — all the way to a thousand logged calls.
Phone, tablet, or desktop — nothing to install. Prop it beside your flight sim, run a frequency on the drive to the airport, and key up like you have made the call a hundred times.
COM 1 · Tampa Twr
119.05
stby 121.90TX