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How to Communicate with Airports
Locate the UNICOM radio frequency for your target airfield. This is listed on the aeronautical map (also called a sectional), or you can find this information at http://www.airnav.com/ for most fields in the US. This frequency is usually between 122.7 and 122.9 or something close to this. Tune your radio to this frequency when you are 5 to 10 miles away to announce your intentions or request a traffic advisory. In the following examples, you are flying an Ultralight designated as A14RMW (Alpha One Four Romeo Mike Whiskey). An example of patter would go something like this:
You: "Shawnee UNICOM, this is Ultralight Alpha One Four Romeo Mike
Whiskey. I am 10 miles East at twelve hundred feet AGL, requesting a
traffic advisory please. Shawnee"
Shawnee Field: "Ultralight Alpha One
Four Romeo Mike Whiskey, we have no reported traffic in the area, light winds
from the southeast and are using runway one eight."
To radio ahead and give notice that you want to fly over you may say the following:
"Shawnee traffic, this is Ultralight Alpha One Four Romeo Mike Whiskey. I am 5 miles East and twelve hundred feet AGL. I will be crossing midfield for a left downwind, runway one eight. Shawnee"
You may want to include your ETA to give the field a reference as to your airspeed. Also, that time I addressed 'traffic' instead of 'UNICOM' as in the previous communication. That way I was stating my intentions and to let them know I was flying in the vicinity. If UNICOM or anyone else was to be in the area, they could notify us at this point because they would then know my intent.
If you are intending on landing at this airfield, you would want to follow the following radio techniques:
1. Crossing midfield:
"Shawnee traffic, this is Ultralight
Alpha One Four Romeo Mike Whiskey crossing midfield for a left downwind, Runway
one eight. Shawnee."
2. Entering the downwind leg of your landing pattern.
"Shawnee
traffic, this is Ultralight Alpha One Four Romeo Mike Whiskey, entering
downwind, runway one eight. Shawnee. Full Stop.
Shawnee." The 'full stop' means you are going to stop once you land
instead of a touch and go as in practicing landing and then immediately taking
off.
3. Turning on the base leg of your landing pattern.
"Shawnee
traffic, this is Ultralight Alpha One Four Romeo Mike Whiskey, turning base,
runway one eight, Full Stop. Shawnee."
4. On the final approach for runway one eight.
"Shawnee
traffic, this is Ultralight Alpha One Four Romeo Mike Whiskey on short final,
runway one eight, full stop. Shawnee."
5. When you are clear of the active runway.
"Shawnee traffic,
this is Ultralight Alpha One Four Romeo Mike Whiskey, clear of the active
runway. Shawnee."
When you announce yourself, use the following words for each
letter of the alphabet:
(A)lpha (B)ravo
(C)harlie (D)elta (E)cho
(F)oxtrot (G)olf (H)otel (I)ndia
(J)uliet (K)ilo (L)ima (M)ike
(N)ovember (O)scar (P)apa
(Q)uebec (R)omeo
(S)ierra
(T)ango (U)niform (V)ictor
(W)hiskey (X)-ray (Y)ankee (Z)ulu
Here are the numbers:
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two tree fower fife
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