Aviation phonetics

How did the ICAO develop a phonetic alphabet?

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), took on the project of developing such an alphabet for the civilian aviation sector

Starting in the late 1940s, the ICAO team collected information on as many phonetic alphabet systems as they could find

What is the NATO Phonetic Alphabet?

The NATO phonetic alphabet, officially denoted as the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, and also commonly known as the ICAO phonetic alphabet, and in a variation also known officially as the ITU phonetic alphabet and figure code, is the most widely used radiotelephone spelling alphabet

Why is the phonetic alphabet important to aviation?

Let's talk about the importance of the phonetic alphabet (as well as numbers) to aviation

The currently used and globally-accepted phonetic alphabet traces its origins back to 1951

As the world emerged from the Second World War, military aviation gave way to civil aviation as the primary source of air traffic

After the aviation organization created the phonetic alphabet in the 1950s, it was adopted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, th…