Chase Field Industrial (TX2) radio calls

Non-towered airport: self-announce on the CTAF

Sample calls at TX2

Chase Field Industrial 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 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 122.8. 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. YouChase Field Industrial traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, taxiing to runway one three, Chase Field Industrial.
3. YouChase Field Industrial traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, departing runway one three, departing the pattern to the north, Chase Field Industrial.
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. YouChase Field Industrial traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, two thousand five hundred, landing Chase Field Industrial, Chase Field Industrial.
6. YouChase Field Industrial UNICOM, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, request wind and runway information, Chase Field Industrial.
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. YouChase Field Industrial traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, entering left downwind runway one three, full stop, Chase Field Industrial.
9. YouChase Field Industrial traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, left base runway one three, Chase Field Industrial.
10. YouChase Field Industrial traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, final runway one three, full stop, Chase Field Industrial.
11. YouChase Field Industrial traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, clear of runway one three, Chase Field Industrial.

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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