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The penalty for an individual knowingly transmitting a false distress is:

A fine up to $5,000 and/or imprisonment for up to 12 months.

A fine of up to $5,000.

None are correct.

The surrender of the transmitter's radio equipment

Which of these could be the call sign of an aircraft station:

Staff Two-Three

Cessna 172

Mobile One

CFATE

The Restricted Radiotelephone Operators Certificate is obtained by:

Paying an annual fee

Demonstrating competence through your flight instructor or drone examiner.

Demonstrating competence through testing.

Installing ISED approved equipment on board.

The call sign used to identify a land station is

The name of your company.

Assigned by ISED.

Whatever is convenient.

The name of the person or persons operating the station.

In case of distress, who controls communications?

The aeronautical ground or base station.

The aircraft in distress.

The nearest station, aircraft or base.

No one station ever controls communications.

When working in different time zones, pilots and drone operators should use _____ while dispatchers should use _______.

Zulu time; Eastern Standard Time.

Zulu time; zulu time.

Local time zone time; local time zone time.

Local time zone time; zulu time.

During a radio check, a base station indicates a readability of 1. What does this mean?

Bad (or unreadable).

Good (or readable).

Excellent (or perfectly intelligible).

Poor (or readable now and then).

The order of priority for transmission in the aeronautical service is

Distress, urgency and communications relating to radio direction finding.

Distress, flight safety and weather warnings.

Distress, urgency and flight safety.

Distress, urgency and safety communication.

The international VHF distress frequency is

121.5 MHz.

121.9 MHz.

123.2 MHz.

123.45 MHz.

Radio equipment eligible for licensing in Canada must be:

Certified by Transport Canada.

Certified by ISED.

Approved by the UL committee of Industry Canada Standards.

Made in Canada.

What does the word MAYDAY indicate?

A distress situation.

The beginning of SOS communications in which communication will become restricted.

A broadcast with a safety message.

An urgent situation.

A pilot wants to order a pizza over the radio and wants olives on their pizza. The ground operator is having trouble understanding the pilots request, so the pilot decides to spell the word olives. How would they do that using the phonetic alphabet?

Owl Light India Victory Earing Susan

Opal Lima Indigo Vince Emma Suzanne

Oscar Lima India Victor Echo Sierra

Organ Landing Idea Vital Eager Sugar

While ordering a pizza, the pilot has the passengers constantly yelling at them in the background with their order, while talking on the radio. Someone wants a cola then changes their mind to an iced tea. To indicate an error has been made, the pilot would say:

Mistake.

Correction.

I say again.

Nothing. The pilot would simply restate the passengers new order.

A pilot orders a pizza over the radio (true story). The pilot wishes to know when the pizza will arrive. The ground operator wants to tell the pilot it will arrive at 9:30 AM local. To say this on the radio, the ground operator will say

Zero nine three zero hours.

Twenty one thirty hours.

Two one three zero hours.

Zero nine thirty hours.

The pilot wants to acknowledge that they heard the arrival time of the pizza. What word or expression would they use to indicate they have heard and understood the arrival time of the pizza?

I receive.

Affirmative.

10-4.

Roger.

The ground controller is having a hard time taking the pilot’s pizza order request. They ask the pilot to “say again.” This means

There is an error in your transmission, please correct yourself.

Please repeat your last transmission.

I will relay your message for you.

Unreadable, try again when you are closer in range to us.

The proper method to acknowledge the receipt of a distress message from aircraft C-FADA is: (assuming your station is C-FBRD)

"Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, this is C-FBRD C-FBRD C-FBRD, Silence Mayday"

"Mayday, C-FBRD C-FBRD C-FBRD, Received Mayday"

"Mayday, C-FADA C-FADA C-FADA, this is C-FBRD C-FBRD C-FBRD, Received Mayday"

"Mayday, C-FADA C-FADA C-FADA, this is C-FBRD C-FBRD C-FBRD, Mayday Relay"

Who issues Radio Station licenses in Canada?

Transport Canada.

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

The CRTC (Canadian Radio Television and Communications Commission)

Canada Post

What is an ELT?

An emergency locator transmitter.

An expanded locate trim indicator.

an enhanced location transmission.

An emergency landing trace.

Before talking on the radio, you should

Ensure you are on the correct frequency,

Ensure the frequency is clear.

Know what you want to say before you transmit.

All are correct.

Which of the following expressions follows proper radiotelephone procedures?

Repeat please, Air Bravo Four Two Three.

I acknowledge, Air Bravo Four Two Three.

Affirmative, Air Bravo Four Two Three.

Over and Out, Air Bravo Four Two Three.

The frequency 121.9 MHz would be spoke:

One two one point niner.

One twenty one niner.

One two one decimal niner.

One two one niner.

Any person having become aware of a radio communication transmitted other than by a broadcasting station or an amateur station is bound by the provisions of the Radiocommunication Act to:

Not to record such communication.

Report the use of the frequency to the nearest ISED office.

Preserve the secrecy of the correspondence.

Enter the details of the intercept in the station log.

Call signs should be sent

At least on the initial call and when concluding the communications.

Only once during the interaction between a pilot and a base station.

At the discretion of the pilot in accordance with local operating procedures.

As often as necessary until a reply from a station is received on the frequency.

When cancelling a distress signal, the message is addressed to

Ground control stations.

A specific station.

All stations.

All answers are correct.

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