Crookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field (KCKN) radio calls

Non-towered airport: self-announce on the CTAF

Sample calls at KCKN

Crookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field has no operating control tower. Every call below goes out on the CTAF, 122.7, to the other aircraft, not to a controller. The runway shown is 13; 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 122.7. 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. YouCrookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, taxiing to runway one three, Crookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field.
3. YouCrookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, departing runway one three, departing the pattern to the north, Crookston Municipal/Kirkwood 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. YouCrookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, two thousand five hundred, landing Crookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field, Crookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field.
6. YouCrookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field UNICOM, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, request wind and runway information, Crookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field.
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. YouCrookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, entering left downwind runway one three, full stop, Crookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field.
9. YouCrookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, left base runway one three, Crookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field.
10. YouCrookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, final runway one three, full stop, Crookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field.
11. YouCrookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, clear of runway one three, Crookston Municipal/Kirkwood Field.

If things change. Want flight following after departure? Call Grand Forks Approach on 118.1 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 →

The calls you will make here

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