Which are the three examples of the verbal controlling phase?

• A. Beacons and FM homing
• B. Ground to air comms, FM (for rotary wing AC), UHF/VHF (for fixed wing AC)
• C. UHF/VHF for fixed wing only
• D. Radio silence

Answer: (B)

Verbal controlling phase is when you issue direct voice instructions to aircraft. The best example set includes ground-to-air communications and the radio formats used by each aircraft type: FM voice for rotary-wing aircraft and UHF/VHF voice for fixed-wing aircraft. This combination ensures clear, real-time verbal coordination with both rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft during the LZ/PZ operation. Beacons and FM homing provide non-verbal guidance, and radio silence would eliminate verbal control entirely, so they don’t fit this phase.