NATO phonetic alphabet flashcards for iPhone
Alfa through Zulu, one card per letter. Learn it once and every confirmation code, booking reference, and call sign you read over the phone gets easier.
What’s inside
Twenty-six cards, the letter on the front and the code word on the back. The deck uses the official ICAO spellings, which surprise most people twice: it is Alfa, not Alpha, and Juliett has two t's. The spellings were chosen decades ago so that speakers of any language would pronounce them correctly. Text-to-speech is on, so the card can say the code word aloud while you check your own pronunciation.
It's a small deck, which is rather the point. At a few minutes a day it's fully learned inside a week.
Sample cards
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| A | Alfa |
| J | Juliett |
| Q | Quebec |
| Z | Zulu |
Who it’s for
Student pilots and radio operators who need it for the license, and anyone who spells names into a phone all day and is tired of improvising with "M as in… Mancy".
Getting it onto your iPhone
Tap the download button on this page in Safari, open the download (the ↓ button by the address bar), and tap the file; it imports into Flickdeck as a new deck with every card unstudied. From a Mac or PC, download it and AirDrop it to your iPhone. The deck library page has the full walkthrough, and the app itself is coming to the App Store.
Source and accuracy
Follows the International Civil Aviation Organization's radiotelephony spelling alphabet, unchanged since 1956 and shared by NATO, the FAA, and the ITU.
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