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Civil / Airliner45 min lesson
Working Approach Control (ATC Interaction)
You will handle approach control communications confidently — accepting vectors, managing speed assignments, and transitioning to tower for landing.
About this lesson
Approach control is where workload peaks: you are configuring the aircraft, briefing the approach, and responding to ATC all at once. Your tutor rides along and coaches the prioritisation that keeps you ahead of the jet.
Why a human tutor? Approach control stacks multiple tasks at once. A tutor coaches your prioritisation live — what to fly, what to say, what can wait.
What you'll learn
- ✓Checking in with approach — what to say and what to expect
- ✓Accepting and flying radar vectors to final
- ✓Speed assignments — when to configure vs when to maintain speed
- ✓Approach briefing while working the radio
- ✓Tower handoff and landing clearance
Prerequisites
- •Comfortable with basic VATSIM comms
- •Ability to fly an ILS or RNAV approach
- •Flight plan filed with a STAR
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Prep material
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