This led to the development of the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet also known as the NATO or International Civil Aviation Organization alphabets. It’s widely used by other ...

The phonetic alphabet is a staple of aviation. In many ways, aviation and radiotelephony grew together during the World War ...

“In fact, it was communicated to us the ship might radio-in PAN-PAN. In that case Malta would have to intervene.” The radiotelephony message PAN-PAN is the international standard urgency signal that ...