⁽⁴³⁾ My first controlled airspace transition (🎧 radio recording)
Channel: Born-to-Crawl
Date: 2021-08-12

𝙇𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣: 🛬 https://youtu.be/zSHl6Q0cBbA 🛫
Throughout my entire flying study course, radio telecom always was the part which I was scared a lot. I'm non-native English speaker and always struggled to understand noisy channels delivering distorted English voices. Alas, aviation world stuck in usage of traditional past-century analogue audio technologies which lack all basic self-correction features of modern communications. In addition, my training happened in uncontrolled 'Class G' space on the airfield with simple A/G services: everything very far from any remote presence of any ATC units or other elements of by-instruction flying.

In overall, it worked fairly well for me as understandably, I never had desire to talk by radio on any single bit more than it was absolutely necessary. On other hand, I totally understood that mastering controlled airspaces (CAS) will open many doors and options of future wonders of flying, so always had plans to build-up experience in proper ATC comms and CAS procedures.

This one is my first practice (full of blunders!) to summon the 'Demon of CAS Transit' for Brize Zone ('Class D') and then desperately struggling to keep him on a leash, with the help of my instructor.

00:00 - Ready for departure
06:23 - Tuning to Brize Zone
09:49 - Initial call to Brize Zone
10:22 - Missed Abingdon routing waypoint 😱
12:26 - Missed 'traffic service' readback 😱
12:51 - ATC confused about Abingdon routing
13:17 - Completely mis-heard clearance (and no readback) 😱
13:52 - Directed to clouds (fine with instructor and traffic service!)
15:11 - Flying in IMC by instruments
17:43 - Confusion on traffic report 😱
18:45 - Out of cloud to VMC ('Victor-Mike-Charlie'), entering CAS
19:11 - 1300ft or 1800ft?? 😱
20:10 - Descending out of clouds, beautiful sight!
22:00 - Phew, leaving CAS! (traffic service goes on)
22:16 - 2500ft or 2300ft?? (OMG, what a mess) 😱
23:15 - Steering around clouds
24:45 - Flying by NDB beacon (left gauge)
26:00 - Descending below clouds
31:17 - Air traffic ahead!
33:30 - Confused by GPS (sorting wrong turn) 😱
37:10 - Leaving traffic service
38:16 - 'Squawk conspicuity' (anyone to pronounce? 😉)
39:17 - Rejoining Turweston
40:07 - Planning crosswind join
41:50 - Messed up crosswind join (wrong height!) 😱
44:05 - Overhead join
47:20 - Final
50:10 - Parking
51:10 - Shutdown

𝙉𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣: Wasn't recorded. An today my flying course is concluded. Practical skill test is on Monday... 🤞🤞🤞

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