Cuchara Valley at La Veta (07V) radio calls

Non-towered airport: self-announce on the CTAF

Sample calls at 07V

Cuchara Valley at La Veta has no operating control tower. Every call below goes out on the CTAF, 122.8, to the other aircraft, not to a controller. The runway shown is 06; use whichever runway the wind and the traffic dictate on the day.

The aircraft is the AIM’s own example, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot; the squawk codes, altitudes and headings are illustrative. Frequencies, station names and runway numbers are this airport’s, from the FAA data.

1. Tune 122.8. Nobody clears you; you announce and you listen. The airport name goes at the start and the end of every call, and the runway is always a number, never "the active" (AIM 4-1-9 g 8).
2. YouCuchara Valley at La Veta traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, taxiing to runway zero six, Cuchara Valley at La Veta.
3. YouCuchara Valley at La Veta traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, departing runway zero six, departing the pattern to the north, Cuchara Valley at La Veta.
4. Announce until you are about 10 miles out; on the way back, start announcing at 10 miles (AIM 4-1-9 c 1, TBL 4-1-1).
5. YouCuchara Valley at La Veta traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, two thousand five hundred, landing Cuchara Valley at La Veta, Cuchara Valley at La Veta.
6. YouCuchara Valley at La Veta UNICOM, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, request wind and runway information, Cuchara Valley at La Veta.
7. A UNICOM operator, if one is on, answers with the wind and the runway in use (AIM 4-1-9 h). If nobody answers, choose the runway from the wind and the pattern traffic you can hear.
8. YouCuchara Valley at La Veta traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, entering left downwind runway zero six, full stop, Cuchara Valley at La Veta.
9. YouCuchara Valley at La Veta traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, left base runway zero six, Cuchara Valley at La Veta.
10. YouCuchara Valley at La Veta traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, final runway zero six, full stop, Cuchara Valley at La Veta.
11. YouCuchara Valley at La Veta traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, clear of runway zero six, Cuchara Valley at La Veta.

If things change. Do not use "any traffic in the area, please advise"; the AIM says it is not to be used under any condition (AIM 4-1-9 g 1). Listen for ten miles before you arrive; most of what you want to know has already been said.

Phraseology from AIM 4-1-9 c 1, g 1, g 8, h; TBL 4-1-1; 4-3-3. What TowerTalk grades against →

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