Aerodrome Control: AircraftRadio Telephony — DGCA CPL practice questions
Question 1 of 16
The manoeuvring area consists of:
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Q1. The manoeuvring area consists of:
- A.Aprons only
- B.Runways and taxiways (excluding aprons)✓
- C.Runways, taxiways and aprons
- D.The terminal building
Why: Manoeuvring area = runways + taxiways; adding aprons makes it the movement area.
Q2. An IFR departure clearance must be:
- A.Acknowledged with "roger"
- B.Read back in full✓
- C.Read back only if requested
- D.Not read back
Why: Route clearances are mandatory read-back items.
Q3. "Start-up approved" permits:
- A.Push-back and taxi
- B.Engine start only✓
- C.Take-off
- D.Crossing the runway
Why: It allows engine start; push-back and taxi are separate clearances.
Q4. The word "take-off" is used:
- A.Throughout the taxi
- B.Only when issuing or cancelling a take-off clearance✓
- C.For any departure intention
- D.Only by the pilot
Why: Otherwise "departure" is used, to reserve "take-off" for the clearance itself.
Q5. Taxiing to a holding point gives you:
- A.Clearance to line up
- B.Clearance to cross the runway
- C.No clearance to enter the runway — stop at the holding point✓
- D.Clearance for take-off
Why: No clearance to enter the runway. A taxi clearance to a holding point does not authorise entering the runway.
Q6. "Give way to the Cessna" means:
- A.Follow the Cessna
- B.Let the Cessna pass before you continue✓
- C.Overtake the Cessna
- D.Stop permanently
Why: Give way = yield to the named traffic, then continue.
Q7. "Line up runway 27 and wait" means:
- A.Take off immediately
- B.Enter the runway, line up, and hold for take-off clearance✓
- C.Hold short of the runway
- D.Vacate the runway
Why: You line up on the runway but do not take off until cleared.
Q8. A conditional clearance such as "behind the landing Airbus, line up behind" requires:
- A.Immediate line-up
- B.Waiting until the named Airbus has passed, reading the condition back✓
- C.A go-around
- D.Contacting Ground
Why: You act only after the stated condition is satisfied, and read it back including "behind".
Q9. The downwind leg of the circuit is:
- A.Straight ahead after take-off
- B.Parallel to the runway, opposite to the landing direction✓
- C.Lined up for landing
- D.The turn onto final
Why: Downwind runs parallel to the runway in the opposite direction; base then turns toward final.
Q10. "Continue approach" means:
- A.You are cleared to land
- B.Keep approaching; landing clearance not yet given✓
- C.Go around
- D.Vacate the runway
Why: It is not a landing clearance; expect the landing clearance shortly.
Q11. "Cleared to land" is:
- A.Not read back
- B.A mandatory read-back item✓
- C.Read back only at night
- D.Optional
Why: mandatory read-back item. Landing clearances are mandatory read-back items.
Q12. The instruction to discontinue an approach is:
- A."Orbit"
- B."Go around"✓
- C."Hold position"
- D."Continue"
Why: "Go around" (often said twice) commands the missed approach.
Q13. A pilot who initiates a missed approach reports:
- A."Roger"
- B."Going around"✓
- C."Cancel landing"
- D."Vacating"
Why: The pilot announces "going around" when initiating it.
Q14. You should report "runway vacated" when:
- A.The nose passes the holding point
- B.The whole aircraft is clear past the holding point✓
- C.You begin to slow
- D.You are on final
Why: Only when fully clear of the runway, releasing it for the next aircraft.
Q15. To cancel a take-off clearance, ATC says:
- A."Continue"
- B."Hold position, cancel take-off, I say again cancel take-off"✓
- C."Line up and wait"
- D."Go around"
Why: The cancellation uses "cancel take-off", repeated for emphasis.
Q16. Surface wind passed with a take-off/landing clearance is in:
- A.Degrees true
- B.Degrees magnetic✓
- C.Knots only
- D.Metres per second
Why: egrees magnetic. ATC passes surface wind in degrees magnetic (the runway is also magnetic).