Recommended abbreviations & symbols For RTR(A) examination, Following abbreviations and symbols may be used by examinee while writing his answers in RTR(A) examination part. A ‘Abm Abt Aby ‘Acft Acc Ale Ack ‘Act AD Adj Ady Adz Aft Agn Attn Alt AWY Abeam About Above Ajreraft ‘Area control or Area control centre Aircraft Acknowledge ‘Accept or Accepted ‘Aerodrome Adjacent Advise; Advisory Advice ‘After (time of place) Again Attention Altitude: Alternate Airport Auto pilot ‘Approach ‘Approach control or Approach control service ‘Apron Approximate or approximately “Approve or approved Arrange ‘Ascent or Ascending to Actual time of arrival Air traffic control Actual time departure ‘Attention ‘Authorized or Authorization Available Airway AzimuthBA Bat Best Beemg BKN Bldg Blw Brg Brk Bin ‘Capt Chin Cld clr Clsd Cmb Cimpl Com Cond Cons Co-ord Crs Cin DA Det Div Braking action Broadcast Boundary Becoming Broken Building Below Bearing, Brake Captain Cumulonimbus Confirm Cloud Clear(s) or cleared to, or Clearance Close, or closed, or closing Climb or climbing to Complete Caneel Communication Condition Continuous Co-ordinate or coordination ‘Course Caution Decision altitude Direct Deviation Divert or diverting Departure Deteriorate, Deteriorating Descend to or descending to Destination Decision height Distance Delay Danger Document DurationGla Gnd GP Gs Gs East bound. Electric, Electricity Elevation ‘External Extend or extending Forecast Flight level Flares Flashing Flight Fluctuating or fluctuated or fluctuation Follow (s) or Following From Full stop landing. Forward Go around or Going around Glider Gmd Glide Path Group Ground speed Glide slope Heading Height Holding Hours, Hydraulicimpr Inbd Info Inop Int Sntst, [sol {dentification Improve or improving Immediate or immediately Inbound Information {noperative Instrument Intersection Intensity Isolated Knots Latitude Landing Length Light Lighted Left hand Localizer Longitude Line squall Level ‘Landing weight Mach number (followed by figures); Metres (preceded by figures) Meter Magnetic Maintenance Maximum Meteorology Middle marker Minimom Monitor or monitoring or monitored Maintain Maintaining Moderate: MessageNia Not available or not applicable Nav Navigation NC No change Net Night NM Nautial mile Nm Normal Nr Number Nxt Next oO Obs Observe or observed or observation ‘Obstr ‘Obstruction OM Outer marker Opn Open or opened or opening P P. Prohibited area (followed by identification) Parl Parallel Pax Passenger (8) Per Performance Perm Permanent PJE Parachute jumping exercise PN Prior notice required POB Persons on board Poss Possible Pri Primary prkg Parking Prov Provisional PS Plus Psti Position Pt Point Ptn Procedure tum Pvt Private Pwr Power Q Quad QuadrantRef Rescue area (followed by identification) Runway (runway identification) Radius Rain showers Radio commonication Failure Runway center line Radio Road Right hand Receive or receiver Runway edge light (s) Reference to or refer to Registration Runway end light (s) Report or reporting or reporting point Request Reroute Range Rescue Helicopter Request level change en-route Resume ridritial navigation Re-clearance in flight Rate of climb Rate of descent Receiving only Repetitive flight plan Replace or replaced Repeat Report reaching Route Runway ‘As soon as possible Search & Rescue Seconds Sector Surface Signal Speed Spot wind Squall ‘SecondarySTA Sin Star Subj Svebl Sys TA TAS Tax Tfe TGL Til Tkot Tio TOC TOD Tmg Turb ‘Twr Typ UFN UNA Unrel US Vey Vis Vib: sp WD WEF WIE wip Straight in approach Standard Station Stationary Subject to Serviceable ‘System Temperature ‘Transition altitude Tail wind ‘rue air speed Taxi ‘Traffic Touch & go landing Through Until Takeoff Take off ‘Top of climb Top of descent Training Turbulence Tower Taxi ‘Type of aircraft Until further notice Unable Unreliable Unserviceable Variable Vertical speed Wind direction Indicator With effect from With immediate effect Work in progressWet ‘Way point Wg ‘Warning, Ws Wind shear we Weight Wx ‘Weather WXR ‘Weather Radar x x Cross Xng Crossing XCVR —— Transteciver XFR ‘Transfer Xmtr ‘Transmitter Y Yr ‘Yours Zz SYMBOLS Maintaining Mo Climb: tT Descent v Co-ordinate/d eS Passing level +450- Reached level 70— More > Less <SPECIMEN fa Normal ‘Abbreviated No/Time 1 VT XYZ after departure climb | VIXYZ aft dep cmb 3500 straight ahead, 3500, urn left, | (orT3500), 3500, TL, X Rall 180, cross radial 180,15 DME or | at 15 DME/ <, FL 50/>, then Tess, flight level 50 or below, | RNN, cmb FL. 290 (or TFL290) then resume normal navigation | RLCE climbing to FL. 290, request level change en-route. 2 Delhi approach VI XYZ 50 | DP (or Dih or Del) Apch VT DME distance from Delta Papa | XYZ, 50 DME DPN, Ral 125, FL November, Radial 125, 70 Maing (4) req desc. elr. maintaining flight level 70, request descent clearance. 3 ‘|Ahemdabad control VTNMK | AH ACC VINMK, PG 11:05, req over Partapgarh, 11:05, request | div AH due Wx ahead. divert to Ahemdabad, due weather ahead 4 03:55 | Delhi tower 15 DME, Radial | DP twr 15 DME, Rdl 210 DPN, 210 DPN, runway in sight, Rwy in sight, req visual appch request visual approachLEGENDS / ABBREVIATIONS 'nircraft Ft, Pin. Ga GS HP Holding Point / Position GA iGo Ahead 1 Say Again “knots [banding __ al Mile (5) SC to significant change, PB neh ik __ RdUS___[Read you 5 (Loud 2 and Clear Rdock [Radio check aContact ‘Esta ish cation wh _. a I Correct _ That is is correct . . : Correction (An error has been made in the transmission _! Disregard (Consider that tran not sent_ 1 you Read What is the readability of my carom Tsay again repeat 3t for clarity or emphasi - Maintain i Monitor | Negative . . Over “My transmission is ended and I expect a response from you 7 7 (Remarks: Not used in VHF communication Out of transmission is ended and no response is an _Remarks : Not used in VHF communication _._ ' Read back ‘IRepeat all, or the specified the part, of this message back to mel oon Getty a received a! ‘Recieared "K change has been made to your last nce and this new! _ _/dearance supersedes your previous clearance or part there of | ‘Report ‘ Request i Roger { Say again ' ‘Speak slower _ i Standby ‘Verify vt wo