Brandon,
This is the letter of introduction I send to our prospective students.
My name is Pamelita Ware and I am the Co-Founder and Director of Instruction for Talk2Tower, an Aviation Radio Instruction company where actual licensed Air Traffic Controllers are your personal Instructors.
The Talk2Tower Aviation Radio Instruction Platform is the result of 3.5 years training, implementation and analysis of private radio instruction and was designed and developed to be an entirely new class of Aviation Radio Instruction. Talk2Tower’s unique program offers fully comprehensive radio instruction that is detailed, concise and operationally functional.
Conventional aviation radio instruction depends solely on the knowledge of the individual Flight Instructor teaching a student pilot to fly. Appropriate or applicable radio usage is often overlooked because the first area of concern is “flying the aircraft”.
Moreover, Radio instruction is typically learned by parroting the Instructor and picking up bits and pieces of information gained on your own. If the Instructor has poor radio skills, then the student typically has even more inferior skills.
When monitoring live ATC frequencies throughout the US, it’s obvious that we have dropped the ball and this industry-wide accepted method isn’t the best way to teach a skill so fundamental to safety.
Like any good language program, our program begins with the basics and progresses to a comprehensive Controller/Pilot dialogue in an amazingly short period of time. This degree of specialized training can only be taught by individuals highly skilled and proficient in the Aviation Language, and as such, all Talk2Tower Instructors are FAA licensed Air Traffic Controllers. We teach using live scenarios that are tailored to the individualized needs of the students. One major advantage of this approach is the ability to stop a scenario at the request of a student and have the Air Traffic Controller explain the concept or reasoning for an instruction.
The benefits of the Talk2Tower program are undeniable, but by far, the most important value is the tremendous increase in safety when a pilot is effective and efficient in communications with Air Traffic Control.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about our company. As you can probably tell, I’m in love with aviation. I am a medically retired 39-year FAA licensed Air Traffic Controller and Pilot, both military and civilian, radar and tower. I am also a FAA licensed ATC Instructor.
-Pam
Enjoy!
-BG