Chetek Municipal/Southworth (Y23) radio calls

Non-towered airport: self-announce on the CTAF

Sample calls at Y23

Chetek Municipal/Southworth has no operating control tower. Every call below goes out on the CTAF, 122.9, to the other aircraft, not to a controller. The runway shown is 07, which has a right-hand pattern; 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 122.9. 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. YouChetek Municipal/Southworth traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, taxiing to runway zero seven, Chetek Municipal/Southworth.
3. YouChetek Municipal/Southworth traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, departing runway zero seven, departing the pattern to the north, Chetek Municipal/Southworth.
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. YouChetek Municipal/Southworth traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, two thousand five hundred, landing Chetek Municipal/Southworth, Chetek Municipal/Southworth.
6. YouChetek Municipal/Southworth traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, entering left downwind runway zero seven, full stop, Chetek Municipal/Southworth.
7. YouChetek Municipal/Southworth traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, left base runway zero seven, Chetek Municipal/Southworth.
8. YouChetek Municipal/Southworth traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, final runway zero seven, full stop, Chetek Municipal/Southworth.
9. YouChetek Municipal/Southworth traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, clear of runway zero seven, Chetek Municipal/Southworth.

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

• CTAF radio calls at non-towered airports →
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