Calls on the radio

From what I read here you haven't yet determined that they have a tower.
That should be determined during the flight planning so it shouldn't be
an issue.

Failing that, how about, "Monroe traffic . . ."


Tony

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In article , Pascal
wrote:

Hello,

This might have been brought up in the newsgroup before but I couldn't
find anything about it.

When going to a new airport, the AD would have sometimes something like :
Monroe County Airport, Bloomington, IN

What call should I do ?
Monroe County tower, Cessna XXXX ...
or
Bloomington tower, Cessna XXXX ...

Usually if I listen to what's being said on the frequency before I talk
I could figure it out, but sometimes some airports don't have that much
traffic and it's a little harder to know what is the proper thing to say.


Thanks

tony roberts wrote:
From what I read here you haven't yet determined that they have a tower.
That should be determined during the flight planning so it shouldn't be
an issue.

Failing that, how about, "Monroe traffic . . ."

I don't think tower would be very happy about that....

Airport is clearly marked on the sectional as having a tower.

"Pascal" wrote in message
...
Hello,

This might have been brought up in the newsgroup before but I couldn't
find anything about it.

When going to a new airport, the AD would have sometimes something like :
Monroe County Airport, Bloomington, IN

What call should I do ?
Monroe County tower, Cessna XXXX ...
or
Bloomington tower, Cessna XXXX ...

Usually if I listen to what's being said on the frequency before I talk
I could figure it out, but sometimes some airports don't have that much
traffic and it's a little harder to know what is the proper thing to say.


Thanks

If you can't figure it out by listening, just use the 'formal' name of the
airport. If the facility commonly uses something else, they will correct
you, no harm done.

("Larry Dighera" wrote)
If you look he http://www.airnav.com/airport/KBMG for Monroe County
Airport, Bloomington, IN, you find it being called Bloomington Tower.


http://www.airnav.com/airport/KFRH (No Tower)
KFRH - French Lick Municipal Airport, French Lick, Indiana.

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KBFR (No Tower)
KBFR - Virgil I Grissom Municipal Airport, Bedford, Indiana.

One is still a guess. :-)


Montblack

Montblack wrote:
("Larry Dighera" wrote)
If you look he http://www.airnav.com/airport/KBMG for Monroe County
Airport, Bloomington, IN, you find it being called Bloomington Tower.


http://www.airnav.com/airport/KFRH (No Tower)
KFRH - French Lick Municipal Airport, French Lick, Indiana.

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KBFR (No Tower)
KBFR - Virgil I Grissom Municipal Airport, Bedford, Indiana.

One is still a guess. :-)

Yeah, but last I checked, Monroe County is BMG...which is towered.

But French Lick! Now THERE'S an airport I haven't heard mentioned in
forever!

"Pascal" wrote in message
...

This might have been brought up in the newsgroup before but I couldn't
find anything about it.

When going to a new airport, the AD would have sometimes something like :
Monroe County Airport, Bloomington, IN

What call should I do ?
Monroe County tower, Cessna XXXX ...
or
Bloomington tower, Cessna XXXX ...

Usually if I listen to what's being said on the frequency before I talk I
could figure it out, but sometimes some airports don't have that much
traffic and it's a little harder to know what is the proper thing to say.


Towers are usually addressed by the name of the primary municipality served.
Go with Bloomington Tower.

Towers are usually addressed by the name of the primary municipality served.
Go with Bloomington Tower.

Yeah, I thought so too, but the folks at Willow Run (in Michigan)
didn't care for me calling them "Yipsilanti Tower" a few weeks ago.

Too bad, cuz I really, REALLY enjoyed saying "Yipsilanti" on the
radio...

:-)
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"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

If I'm not sure of the name of the airport I generally use...

whatever the controller refered to it as during the hand-off, or

whatever it is refered to on AWOS, ATIS, or

the name of the city it serves, unless there are multiple airports
serving the city, in which case I use the proper name.

If it's a tower, they'll subtlely correct you. If you're making calls
on the CTAF, the locals will know where you are and the transcients
will likely be in the same shoes. Hedge your bets and use both if the
CTAF is quiet.



Pascal wrote:
Hello,

This might have been brought up in the newsgroup before but I couldn't
find anything about it.

When going to a new airport, the AD would have sometimes something like :
Monroe County Airport, Bloomington, IN

What call should I do ?
Monroe County tower, Cessna XXXX ...
or
Bloomington tower, Cessna XXXX ...

Usually if I listen to what's being said on the frequency before I talk
I could figure it out, but sometimes some airports don't have that much
traffic and it's a little harder to know what is the proper thing to say.


Thanks

Bob Noel wrote:

They'll probably answer to either. I'm pretty sure people call KBED
"Hanscom" and "Bedford"... I'm quite certain I've used both - sometimes
in the same flight.



Me: Barnes Tower...

BAF Tower: Westfield Tower, go ahead...

Me (next time): Westfield Tower...


I wouldn't sweat it. If there's no traffic to provide clues, they'll
probably answer to anything that even could remotely be directed at them.