Okolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field (5A4) radio calls

Non-towered airport: self-announce on the CTAF

Sample calls at 5A4

Okolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field has no operating control tower. Every call below goes out on the CTAF, 122.9, to the other aircraft, not to a controller. The runway shown is 18; 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 122.9. 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. YouOkolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, taxiing to runway one eight, Okolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field.
3. YouOkolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, departing runway one eight, departing the pattern to the north, Okolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field.
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. YouOkolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, two thousand five hundred, landing Okolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field, Okolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field.
6. YouOkolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, entering left downwind runway one eight, full stop, Okolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field.
7. YouOkolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, left base runway one eight, Okolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field.
8. YouOkolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, final runway one eight, full stop, Okolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field.
9. YouOkolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, clear of runway one eight, Okolona Municipal/Richard Stovall Field.

If things change. Want flight following after departure? Call Columbus Approach on 126.075 once clear of the pattern: identification, type, position, altitude, destination, "request VFR flight following" (AIM 4-1-18 a 3). 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).

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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