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I'm a VFR student and just moved to a school at a towered airport. I have no issues with the standard script... ex. "Cessna ABC at the DEF ramp, ready to taxi westbound vfr departure..." etc. Where I have problems is when the controller throws curve balls, like last minute changes that I h...

Oh, cool... you just saved me another 45 minutes!

Cool, thanks!

Ok thanks... just want to make sure that before I spent the ~45 minutes doing the CAT-1 PEAware is tracking me correctly. Once I log into Pilot Edge, should I see my call sign on there regardless of the flight plan?

I've been flying the CAT flights without credit, so I tried to change that. I filed a flight plan for CAT-1... immediately I realized the cruising altitude was completely wrong, but didn't know how to cancel or change it... I flew the route anyway but at a different altitude as I wasn't sure what to...

Thanks so much for the detailed analysis! That explains a ton. In fact I thought I heard him say 30, and I believe I repeated that, but as I got closer to landing I took another look at the airport map and indeed there was no 30, lol... Will definitely give this a shot. It's helping a ton, even if i...

Gotcha... appreciate the effort... want to make sure I do it correctly next time. As a student who has only talked to ATC through PE so far, I would definitely default to "I screwed up" :) Just trying to figure out exactly where I did. Yes, it wasn't CAT-2... had a small amount of time in ...

Then I'm confused... just listened to the recording (http://assets.pilotedge.net/recordings/hourly/2018-10-8_8_17510.mp3 ... 530RC) and we definitely exchanged tail numbers 10 miles out... which I thought gave me clearance. Do we have to exchange them again just before I enter the airspace? The only...

Oh, I didn't realize that... that's great. I'll definitely review.

So as far as establishing contact, should my initial 10 mile out communication be established with Santa Barbara on 127.725? If so, I think maybe that's where I screwed up...

Brand new student here. Did really well in the exam (only one question wrong) but still only about 1/2 way to my cert. Just starting with ATC now and trying to use PE for practice. I flew into SBP this morning. At 10 miles out I changed over to 124.0 and said "San Luis Tower, Cessna 530RC appro...