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Say Again, Please: Guide to Radio Communications
The ABCs of communicatingUnderstanding radio equipmentCommunication etiquette and rulesVFR, IFR, and emergency communication proceduresAir traffic control facilities and their functions
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7 Reddit comments about Say Again, Please: Guide to Radio Communications:

u/plugnplay · 6 pointsr/flying
u/quickreader · 5 pointsr/flying

I liked Say Again Please

Good for learning about radio calls and working with ATC in different kinds of airspace.

u/vote100binary · 3 pointsr/flying
u/nbx909 · 2 pointsr/flying

Say again please is a useful book on communicating with ATC.

u/rs98101 · 2 pointsr/flying

Say Again, Please helped me out quite a bit with a ton of questions I had about radio communications. It also had a lot of other common sense tips unrelated to communications.

u/jpozzed · 2 pointsr/flying

Check out the Radar Contact Podcast and website
http://atccommunication.com/radar-contact-audio-show

Say Again, Please is also a great reference
https://www.amazon.com/Say-Again-Please-Guide-Communications/dp/1560277602

u/xmuerte · 2 pointsr/pilots

For what my opinion is worth, I'd hesitate to start out on the flight simulator route. And Helix said why in his very own post... you WILL develop terrible habits, and it's VERY different from the real thing. All that simulator time will be worthless until you get actual training in a real aircraft. (I think FSX has room to be beneficial, but only as a way to reinforce what you've already learned in the airplane.) And all of that time you spend in a simulator reinforcing bad habits will only serve to lengthen how much actual time it takes you in the air. For example, one of the hardest habits a student pilot has to break is looking inside at the instruments too much. Students get overwhelmed at all the information there and bury their heads in it, but most of what you're learning for your PPL involves sight pictures and visual reference outside of the aircraft. You won't get proficient at steep turns, S turns, turns around a point, flying the traffic pattern, or watching for traffic until you learn to look outside and only reference your instruments at a glance. FSX will reinforce that bad habit, and probably slow down your practical learning because of it.

I'd think what would be much more likely to help would be doing the bookwork ahead of time. Memorize all the procedures in the PTS. Find a POH and read it 10 times. Memorize the emergency procedures. Get a copy of Say Again, Please and learn you airspaces and radio communications. Learn to read a sectional chart and do flight planning. Learn the FAR/AIM. This, in my opinion, will be much more beneficial than FSX time. (And cheaper than buying a yoke/rudder/throttle.)

One thing I like to point out with flight training is to look at a breakdown of the costs. If your intent is to keep flying after you pass your checkride, then "as cheaply as possible" has a different meaning. At $100/hr, you're going to spend at least $4000 to fly for 40 hours. That number remains constant after you get your license, too. It will still cost $100/hr to fly, or $4000 to fly for 40 hours. So really it's a two part question: 1. Can I afford to fly at all? 2. Can I afford the extra cost to learn how to fly? If you finish training in exactly 40, which most people don't, then you'll have a maximum of 30 hours dual instruction, which is $1200. So think about it that way--the actual "learning to fly" part of flying is only 1200 bucks, the rest of the money is the fixed cost of flying that you'll be spending AFTER you pass your checkride to keep flying.