"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
nk.net...
Towers are usually addressed by the name of the primary municipality
served. Go with Bloomington Tower.

Define "usually".

Only two of the towered airports here in the Puget Sound area follow that
rule. Sea-Tac (serving Seattle), Boeing Field (serving Seattle), Paine
Field (serving Everett) all use the name of the airport. The only places
where the municipality served is used to address the tower, the municipality
name is actually *part* of the airport name (Olympia Airport and Bellingham
Airport).

My experience has been that the towers I've talked to (from coast to coast)
generally follow the rule that the airport name is used to address the
tower. Even that gets a little sketchy, if the airport has more than one
name for example (Boeing Field is aka King County International Airport,
while Paine Field is aka Snohomish County Airport). But generally speaking,
the only time I've used the municipality name to address the tower is when
that name is actually part of the airport name.

Going by the actual name of the airport has been MUCH more reliable for me
than the rule of thumb you suggest would have been.

Pete