Floyd Bennett Meml (KGFL) radio calls

Non-towered airport: self-announce on the CTAF

Sample calls at KGFL

Floyd Bennett Meml has no operating control tower. Every call below goes out on the CTAF, 123.0, to the other aircraft, not to a controller. The runway shown is 01; 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 123.0. 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. YouFloyd Bennett Meml traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, taxiing to runway zero one, Floyd Bennett Meml.
3. YouFloyd Bennett Meml traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, departing runway zero one, departing the pattern to the north, Floyd Bennett Meml.
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. YouFloyd Bennett Meml traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, two thousand five hundred, landing Floyd Bennett Meml, Floyd Bennett Meml.
6. YouFloyd Bennett Meml UNICOM, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, request wind and runway information, Floyd Bennett Meml.
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. YouFloyd Bennett Meml traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, entering left downwind runway zero one, full stop, Floyd Bennett Meml.
9. YouFloyd Bennett Meml traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, left base runway zero one, Floyd Bennett Meml.
10. YouFloyd Bennett Meml traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, final runway zero one, full stop, Floyd Bennett Meml.
11. YouFloyd Bennett Meml traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, clear of runway zero one, Floyd Bennett Meml.

If things change. Want flight following after departure? Call Albany Approach on 132.825 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

• CTAF radio calls at non-towered airports →
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• How to request VFR flight following →

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