West Desert Airpark (UT9) radio calls

Non-towered airport: self-announce on the CTAF

Sample calls at UT9

West Desert Airpark 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 17; 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. YouWest Desert Airpark traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, taxiing to runway one seven, West Desert Airpark.
3. YouWest Desert Airpark traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, departing runway one seven, departing the pattern to the north, West Desert Airpark.
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. YouWest Desert Airpark traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, two thousand five hundred, landing West Desert Airpark, West Desert Airpark.
6. YouWest Desert Airpark UNICOM, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, request wind and runway information, West Desert Airpark.
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. YouWest Desert Airpark traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, entering left downwind runway one seven, full stop, West Desert Airpark.
9. YouWest Desert Airpark traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, left base runway one seven, West Desert Airpark.
10. YouWest Desert Airpark traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, final runway one seven, full stop, West Desert Airpark.
11. YouWest Desert Airpark traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, clear of runway one seven, West Desert Airpark.

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 →

The calls you will make here

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