The RTR(A) Exam & How to Use This BookRadio Telephony — DGCA CPL practice questions
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"RTR(A)" stands for:
All 15 questions — The RTR(A) Exam & How to Use This Book
Radio Telephony · DGCA CPL. The correct option is marked on each.
Q1. "RTR(A)" stands for:
- A.Radio Transmission Rating (Advanced)
- B.Radio Telephone Operator (Restricted) — Aeronautical✓
- C.Registered Telecom Radio (Aircraft)
- D.Radar Tracking Receiver (Airborne)
Why: Radio Telephone Operator (Restricted), Aeronautical — the operator's licence for the aircraft radio.
Q2. The "Restricted" in RTR(A) means the licence is limited to:
- A.Operation within the aeronautical mobile service✓
- B.Daylight operations only
- C.Ground operations only
- D.Any radio service worldwide
Why: It confines the privilege to the aeronautical mobile service — an aircraft radio operator, not a general operator.
Q3. The Aeronautical Mobile Service is a service between:
- A.Two land stations only
- B.Aircraft stations and aeronautical stations (and between aircraft stations)✓
- C.Ships and aircraft only
- D.Satellites and ground
Why: ircraft stations and aeronautical stations (and between aircraft stations). AMS is between aircraft stations and aeronautical (land) stations, or between aircraft stations; survival-craft/ELT may participate.
Q4. An "aeronautical station" is:
- A.A station aboard an aircraft
- B.A land station in the aeronautical mobile service✓
- C.A satellite
- D.An emergency beacon
Why: land station in the aeronautical mobile service. An aeronautical station is a land station; the airborne one is the aircraft station.
Q5. "Radiotelephony" is radiocommunication primarily for the exchange of:
- A.Data packets
- B.Morse code
- C.Information in the form of speech✓
- D.Radar returns
Why: Radiotelephony = communication primarily by speech.
Q6. AMS(R) is reserved for communications relating to:
- A.Company business
- B.Safety and regularity of flight along civil air routes✓
- C.Passenger entertainment
- D.Military operations only
Why: The "R" = Route; AMS(R) carries safety/regularity-of-flight traffic on civil routes.
Q7. The document that lists the examinable RTR(A) syllabus is:
- A.ICAO Annex 8
- B.The Aircraft Rules, 1937
- C.CAR Section 7, Series G, Part VI✓
- D.The ITU Radio Regulations
Why: AR Section 7, Series G, Part VI. The DGCA's CAR Section 7, Series G, Part VI carries the syllabus.
Q8. The correct top-to-bottom legal order is:
- A.CAR → Rules → Act
- B.Act → Rules → CAR✓
- C.Rules → CAR → Act
- D.Act → CAR → Rules
Why: ct → Rules → CAR. "A Real Carrier" — Act (top statute) → Rules (made under it) → CAR (operationalises into a syllabus).
Q9. The principal civil aviation statute currently in force in India is the:
- A.Aircraft Act, 1934
- B.Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, 2024✓
- C.Telegraph Act, 1885
- D.Carriage by Air Act
Why: haratiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, 2024. The 2024 Act replaced the older Aircraft Act framework.
Q10. Which international instrument allocates the radio-frequency spectrum aviation may use?
- A.ICAO Annex 10
- B.The ITU Radio Regulations✓
- C.CAR Section 7
- D.The Chicago Convention
Why: The ITU allocates spectrum; ICAO Annex 10 then standardises aviation's use of it.
Q11. The examination is passed only when the candidate clears:
- A.The theory paper alone
- B.The practical alone
- C.Both the theory and the practical/oral✓
- D.Either one
Why: oth the theory and the practical/oral. Both halves must be passed (within the validity window) to be licensed.
Q12. Examiners most often fail candidates on:
- A.The application form
- B.The practical/oral phraseology test✓
- C.The medical
- D.The theory paper
Why: Live phraseology under pressure trips up the under-prepared — drill it as hard as theory.
Q13. The RTR(A) authorises the holder to:
- A.Install and maintain aircraft transmitters
- B.Operate the aircraft radio and communicate with ATS✓
- C.Act as an air traffic controller
- D.Issue NOTAMs
Why: It is the operator's licence — communication, not engineering or control.
Q14. ICAO Annex 10 deals with:
- A.Rules of the Air
- B.Operation of Aircraft
- C.Aeronautical Telecommunications✓
- D.Aerodromes
Why: eronautical Telecommunications. Annex 10 — Aeronautical Telecommunications — is the international standard behind the RTR syllabus.
Q15. The best preparation balance for the RTR(A) is:
- A.100% theory, nothing spoken
- B.Theory and spoken phraseology drilled in parallel from the start✓
- C.Practical only in the final two days
- D.Memorise the question bank, ignore concepts
Why: Run theory and live transmission practice together throughout; never defer the practical.