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• Aeronautical Information Manualp. 4-4-4
  Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 4. ATC Clearances and Aircraft Separation › 4-4-7. Pilot Responsibility upon Clearance Issuance

  involved in the traffic situation. b. ATC Clearance/Instruction Readback. Pilots of airborne aircraft should read back those parts of ATC clearances and instructions containing altitude assignments, vectors, or runway assignments as a means of mutual verification. The read back ... controllers and reduces the kinds of communications errors that occur when a number is either “misheard” or is incorrect…

• Aeronautical Information Manualp. 5-5-1
  Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 5. Pilot/Controller Roles and Responsibilities › 5-5-2. Air Traffic Clearance

  with an emergency. Advises ATC as soon as possible and obtains an amended clearance, if deviation is necessary. NOTEA clearance to land means that appropriate separation on the landing runway will be ensured. A landing clearance does not relieve ... airspace. 3. Ensures acknowledgement by the pilot for issued information, clearances, or instructions. 4. Ensures that readbacks by the pilot of altitude, heading, or other items are correct. If incorrect, distorted, or incomplete, makes corrections as appropriate…

• Aeronautical Information Manualp. 5-5-4
  Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 5. Pilot/Controller Roles and Responsibilities › 5-5-6. Vectors

  operationally advantageous to the pilot or the controller. 3. In response to the pilot’s stated intentions, issues a clearance to an alternate airport, to a holding fix, or for reentry into the approach sequence, as traffic conditions permit ... heading or altitude believed to be incorrect. 3. If operating VFR and compliance with any radar vector or altitude would cause a violation of any CFR, advises ATC and obtains a revised clearance or instructions. b. Controller. 1. Vectors aircraft…

• Instrument Procedures Handbookp. 3-9
  Chapter 3: Arrivals › Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT)

  jurisdiction. Many times ATC issue en route clearances for pilots to proceed off airway direct to a point. Pilots who accept this type of clearance also are accepting the shared responsibility for maintaining safe terrain clearance. Know the height ... arrival: “…delayed the initiation of the descent…”; “Aircraft prematurely descended too early…”; “…late getting down…”; “During a descent…incorrectly cleared down…”; “…aircraft prematurely let down…”; “…lost situational awareness…”; “Premature descent clearance…”; “Prematurely descended…”; “Premature descent clearance while on vector…”; “During…

• Instrument Procedures Handbookp. 1-38
  Chapter 1: Departure Procedures › Radar Departures

  report your position and altitude for ATC. The controller is not required to provide terrain and obstacle clearance just because ATC has radar contact with your aircraft. It remains your responsibility until the controller begins to provide navigational guidance ... Question any assigned heading if you believe it to be incorrect or if it would cause a violation of a regulation, then advise ATC immediately and obtain a revised clearance. Figure 1-34. New charting standard without ATC annotations. Figure…