Exercise 2. When establishing communication an aircraft shall use the full callsigns of both stations

Study the following.

When establishing communication an aircraft shall use the full callsigns of both stations. After satisfactory communication has been established and provided that no confusion is likely to occur, the ground station may abbreviate callsigns (see the table below). A pilot may only abbreviate the callsign of his aircraft if it has first been abbreviated by the aeronautical ground station.

Type	Example
	Full	Abbreviated
a) the characters corresponding to the registration marking of the aircraft;	G-ABCD Cessna G-ABCD	G-CD Cessna G-CD
b)the telephony designator of the aircraft operating agency, followed by the last four characters of the registration marking of the aircraft; or	FASTAIR DCAB	FASTAIR AB
c)the telephony designator of the aircraft operating agency, followed by the flight identification	FASTAIR 345	No abbreviated form

Note: the name of the aircraft manufacturer or name of aircraft model may be used as a radiotelephony prefix to the Type a) above.

Exercise 3

Work in pairs. Read and copy aircraft callsigns.

Air France 818	Delta 290	PT – SBB	Saudi 202
Speedbird 302	N 265 AC	AIR Malta 102	N 243 AX
2G – LFOB	D – ABAP	YU – LFZ	Zufthansa 342
2D – WEPX	F – BPJQ	N 7560 V	Olympic 504
G – BOAA	I – BIDD	G – TARD	TWA 410
G – RASC	N 713 AC	Iberia 500	Alitalia 461
G – SJAB	N 605 US	KLM 570	F – BNTS
C – FTJV	OD – AFS	Shuttle 8 M	N 381 DE