Harris County (KPIM) radio calls

Non-towered airport: self-announce on the CTAF

Sample calls at KPIM

Harris County 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 09; 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. YouHarris County traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, taxiing to runway zero niner, Harris County.
3. YouHarris County traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, departing runway zero niner, departing the pattern to the north, Harris County.
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. YouHarris County traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, two thousand five hundred, landing Harris County, Harris County.
6. YouHarris County UNICOM, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, request wind and runway information, Harris County.
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. YouHarris County traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, entering left downwind runway zero niner, full stop, Harris County.
9. YouHarris County traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, left base runway zero niner, Harris County.
10. YouHarris County traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, final runway zero niner, full stop, Harris County.
11. YouHarris County traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, clear of runway zero niner, Harris County.

If things change. Want flight following after departure? Call Atlanta Approach on 125.5 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 →
• Traffic pattern position reports →
• How to request VFR flight following →

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