EASA090 aviation-communications foundations common mistakes
EASA090 aviation-communications foundations · Understand the traps and how to avoid them.
Answering a level clearance only with ROGER.
Receipt is confused with the required safety-related readback.
What to do instead
Read back the actual required level and identifier, then resolve any correction.
Entering a runway on a hold-short instruction.
A restriction is treated as movement authorization.
What to do instead
Retain the holding position and obtain the actual necessary clearance.
Reading back the action while dropping its condition.
The restriction identifying when the action is permitted disappears.
What to do instead
Include and correctly identify the stated condition as well as the instruction.
Applying digit-by-digit transmission to every quantity.
Current whole-hundred or whole-thousand exceptions are ignored.
What to do instead
Check the current rule for the specific flight level, setting, code or other quantity.
Assuming a passenger cannot be in distress if the aircraft still flies.
Danger to a person is excluded from the safety assessment.
What to do instead
Assess actual grave and imminent danger and assistance needs rather than aircraft control alone.
Treating blind transmission as a confirmed clearance.
Sending a message is confused with receiving authority.
What to do instead
Preserve the difference between an attempted transmission, reception and an acknowledged instruction.
Treating an ATIS letter as a landing clearance.
An information broadcast is confused with an addressed instruction.
What to do instead
Use the letter to identify information received and obtain the actual required clearance.
Assuming narrower channel spacing increases radio range.
Spectrum capacity is confused with propagation geometry.
What to do instead
Separate channel availability from antenna height, terrain and actual coverage.