Eligibility for admission to the examination is matriculation and while applying for the examination, the candidate must be minimum eighteen years of age

The examination is conducted every even month of the year at select venues all over India.

The months and the list of venues are given below:

• February : Mumbai
• April : New Delhi
• June : Chennai
• August : Kolkata
• October : New Delhi
• December : Hyderabad

The tentative dates of the examinations for each session are published in the website of WPC every December.

The examination will consist of the following two parts:

Part-I – 100 Marks

Practical test in Regulations and Procedure – 100 Marks

A practical test will be conducted over a synthetic R/T circuit. Candidates will be required to use phonetic alphabets and general procedure for radio telephone working. Candidates will be required to carry out communications associated with mobile and/or base stations. Typical examples of what the candidates are expected to carry out are: preparation of messages for transmission, exchange of traffic, use of priorities requesting D/F assistance, obtaining meteorological information, position reports, distress, urgency, safety and D/F procedure.

Part-II – 100 Marks

 Oral examination in

1. Regulations and Procedure

2. Radio Principles and Practice

Note :- The maximum marks in each Part I and II is 100 and minimum pass is 50 in individual   parts. Candidates who do not qualify in Part I will be considered failed in the R/T examination.

• Regulations and Procedure

1. > International Telecommunication Convention & Radio Regulations
2. > General and Aeronautical ‘Q’ Code Signals and other abbreviations as contained in Annexure 10 (Vol.I & II) of International Civil Aviation Organisation.
3. > General Radio telephone Communication procedures and radio telephone communication procedure for distress urgency and direction finding.
4. > Procedures for distress communication in Maritime Mobile Service.
5. >Words and figures spelling used in radio telephone.
6. >Licensing requirements of installation and operation of radio apparatus used in aircraft.
7. >Minimum requirement of radio equipment to be carried on aircraft as prescribed in Annexure 6 of the International Civil Aviation Organisation and Civil Aviation Authority in India.
8. >Flight Information Regions in India and main Radio Communication and Navigation facilities available together with principal frequencies to be used for communication and navigation within India.
9. >Meteorological codes, pre-flight briefing services and their usages.
10. >Knowledge of notices to airmen issued by the Civil Aviation Authorities in India as applicable to the Aeronautical mobile and Air traffic Control Services.

• Radio Principles & Practice

>Knowledge of Electrical Units such as Volt, Ampere, Ohm and Watt; Wavelength, frequency and their relationship; Elementary knowledge of radio frequency propagation, and night frequencies, skip distances, fading, ground shadow and its effect on communication, choice of frequencies to attain maximum efficiency in handling air ground HF Communications.

>General knowledge of systems employed for air-ground communications including SELCAL operation, inter-communication and announcing systems of aircraft; elementary knowledge of Radio-navigation Aids, operation of microphones and headphones, Squelch, AVC, Volume control, tuning of transmitter, simplex and duplex operation; advantages and disadvantages of Radio telephone communication; limitations of range due to frequency interference etc.

Reference for study given below is limited to aeromobile service requirements and allied regulatory matters only.

>ITU Radio Regulations.

>ICAO Publications:-

1. Annexure – 10 Vol. I & II.

2. DOC 4444 – Procedure of Air Navigation Service (PANS) and Air Traffic Management (ATM)

3. DOC 9432 – Manual of Radio Telephony.

4. DOC 8400 – Abbreviations and codes.

>AAI/DGCA Publications:-

1. Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP).

2. AERADIO.

>Suitable book(s) for Radio Communication Principles. Many books are available on this subject.

1. Aviation Radiotelephony Guide  ( R.K. Bali )

2. The amateur Radio Relay league handbook

3. Basic Radio by Marvin Tepper (Volume I – VI)

4. Electronic Communication by Robert L. Shrader

5. Radio Technology by Ashok Saxena

Note 2:- WPC recommends that the candidates in their own interest study the functioning of a typical modern R/T installation on board a civil passenger aircraft, as well as at the ground station.