Phonetic alphabet — transcript

00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:05.380 Phonetic alphabet, numbers and callsigns: say them so they can't be misheard.

00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:09.353 On a noisy radio, single letters are easily misheard.

00:00:09.353 --> 00:00:12.251 So each letter gets a distinct word. Learn them all.

00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:18.509 Alfa. Bravo. Charlie. Delta. Echo. Foxtrot.

00:00:21.300 --> 00:00:25.140 Golf. Hotel. India. Juliett. Kilo. Lima.

00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.692 Mike. November. Oscar. Papa. Quebec. Romeo.

00:00:34.300 --> 00:00:40.047 Sierra. Tango. Uniform. Victor. Whiskey. X-ray. Yankee. Zulu.

00:00:42.400 --> 00:00:46.841 Use it for callsigns, waypoints, registration marks and any word that must be clear.

00:00:46.841 --> 00:00:48.147 Practise with your name.

00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:51.889 Numbers have their own sounds too.

00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:59.818 Ze-ro. Wun. Too. Tree. Fow-er. Fife. Six. Sev-en. Ait. Nin-er.

00:01:01.400 --> 00:01:05.234 Watch these: tree, fow-er, fife, nin-er and tousand.

00:01:05.234 --> 00:01:08.923 Fife and nin-er stop five and nine being confused.

00:01:10.900 --> 00:01:14.662 Say each digit: two thirty-six is too, tree, six.

00:01:15.012 --> 00:01:19.827 Whole hundreds and thousands keep the word: fow-er tousand fife hundred.

00:01:19.827 --> 00:01:21.542 A decimal is day-see-mal.

00:01:22.412 --> 00:01:25.763 Australian registrations are V H plus three letters.

00:01:25.763 --> 00:01:30.379 Your callsign is the last three, spoken phonetically: Zulu Tango Quebec.

00:01:31.912 --> 00:01:37.841 Calling with registration V H A B C, you'd say: Brisbane Centre, Alfa Bravo Charlie.

00:01:39.912 --> 00:01:46.613 Aviation time is UTC, also called Zulu time, on the 24-hour clock. So 5:

00:01:46.613 --> 00:01:49.551 30 pm is wun sev-en tree ze-ro.

00:01:49.901 --> 00:01:56.481 Arrival times are minutes past the hour. At 2 pm, one ait means 2:18. If unclear,

00:01:56.481 --> 00:01:59.932 give all four figures: one zero four five.

00:02:00.401 --> 00:02:06.200 Final check. Read out the callsign L C D, then the number fifty-nine.

00:02:06.550 --> 00:02:09.006 Lima Charlie Delta. Fife Nin-er.