You will listen to three different communications between pilots and air traffic Controllers. The recordings will be played twice. there is a five-second pause before the recording is repeated. After listening to the recording, you should tell everything that the pilot and the controller said.

Now tell me, in your own words, everything that the pilot and the controller said.

Is GPS a reliable equipment for navigation? Why?

Now tell me, in your own words, everything that the pilot and the controller said.

What are the problems that can lead the pilots to land on longer runways?

Now tell me, in your own words, everything that the pilot and the controller said.

How can non-standard expressions affect communication between air traffic controllers and pilots?

Now, considering the three situations you have heard in part three:
How would you compare them? You may want to compare them in terms of severity, possible solutions and ways of prevention. Which one do you think is the most difficult to deal with? Why?

Considering the three situations, the first one, loss of GPS is not so hard or complex situation, as the pilots can request the controllers’ vectors or to resume conventional navigation to land on the closest suitable airport if necessary. To avoid it, the best thing to be done is to provide a better quality GPS equipment on board and carry out preventive maintenance as well.

Situation number 3, non-standard phraseology is more dangerous than situation number 1, because besides the delay, the risks of misunderstanding are higher and in this case there was an aircraft running low on fuel and needing priority landing and the controller was wasting time using a kind of slang to communicate with the other pilots. There was even the risk of an accident.

In order to avoid it, as a pilot I recommend a better training for the air traffic controllers to learn how to use standard phraseology in communications.

And finally, the most difficult situation to deal with, is the Hydraulic loss of pressure and partial control of the aileron because the pilots may experience serious difficulties on stabilizing the approach and also on controlling the aircraft to land safely.

During the touch down time, they may have problems with the braking actions and even suffer a runway excursion.

In order to avoid it, I suggest the Airline to provide a regular and preventive maintenance.