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Gary Drescher wrote:
"Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote in message
news:83T3f.22$oy3.18@trnddc04...
Not particularly germane to this discussion, but KIYK is a non-tower
airport. I was up doing bumps and rounds, AKA touch-n-goes yesterday, and
was dutifully calling out my various positions as any good airman in the
pattern should do.

Now, I was calling the runway as 02, like in "....33Xray, turning left
base, runway Zero-Two, Inyokern." Over the radio comes a voice to admonish
me that, "...there is no zero in front of the two." Never wanting to
rankle a fellow pilot, I dropped the zero -- well, most of the time,
anyway. Thirty-year-old habits are hard to break.

Does it matter? Is there a protocol for this?

The AIM provides radio communication protocols. Unfortunately, section 4-2
(Radio Communications Phraseology and Techniques) is silent on this point.
However, section 4-3 (Airport Operations) gives the example "cleared to land
runway six right", so omitting the zero appears to be the standard
(4-3-11c2).


Correct me if I'm wrong, but last I was taught, the AIM was
presented as a guideline for pilots to follow, not something that they
must absolutely swear by, like ATC does with the .65. So the pilots
could say 'zero six right' or 'six right', and both would be
acceptable.

BL.
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