Ottawa Executive (Z98) radio calls

Non-towered airport: self-announce on the CTAF

Sample calls at Z98

Ottawa Executive 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 02; 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. YouOttawa Executive traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, taxiing to runway zero two, Ottawa Executive.
3. YouOttawa Executive traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, departing runway zero two, departing the pattern to the north, Ottawa Executive.
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. YouOttawa Executive traffic, Cessna Three One Six Zero Foxtrot, one zero miles south, two thousand five hundred, landing Ottawa Executive, Ottawa Executive.
6. YouOttawa Executive traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, entering left downwind runway zero two, full stop, Ottawa Executive.
7. YouOttawa Executive traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, left base runway zero two, Ottawa Executive.
8. YouOttawa Executive traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, final runway zero two, full stop, Ottawa Executive.
9. YouOttawa Executive traffic, Cessna Six Zero Foxtrot, clear of runway zero two, Ottawa Executive.

If things change. Want flight following after departure? Call Great Lakes Approach on 128.4 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

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