Subchapter 10.3 – En-Route Operations and Frequency Changes

PHASE 9: EN-ROUTE SEGMENT

Timeline: T+0:50 (50 minutes after takeoff, 25 minutes until arrival)

You are cruising at FL 110 en route to Munich. Innsbruck Centre provides a routine update.

Routine En Route Traffic Information

Innsbruck Centre · OE-DMS

CENTRE: OE-DMS, traffic at your two o'clock, three miles, climbing through eight-thousand five-hundred feet, Airbus A three-two-zero.

PILOT: OE-DMS, traffic in sight.

CENTRE: OE-DMS, ROGER, continue.

Analysis: ATC provided traffic information (a nearby aircraft climbing). You reported it in sight. This is standard traffic avoidance communication. If you had NOT seen the traffic, you would respond "OE-DMS, negative contact, request vectors."