New Approach to the ATC-Pilot Radio Communication Phraseology Phonetic Confusion

Abstract

During flight process of an aircraft, air traffic control officer (ATCO)-pilot interaction commonly faces frequency misunderstandings, since the quality of radio communication has different types of disturbance including background noise, atmospheric disturbances, and high-power RF sources. In this study, the most common misunderstandings of phraseology structure were analyzed to reduce the radio communication failure. Pilotage and air traffic control (ATC) students listened to a real Yesilkoy approach voice record between an ATCO and a pilot. Besides, a survey, defining their listening failures, was given to the participants. The result of the survey showed that the common radio communication failures between the ATCO and the pilot are related with the similarity of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) phonetic alphabet and numbers. To reduce these similarities, a phonetic alphabet usage rule is proposed in order to prevent the spelling conflicts in this study.

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