drunkenbeagle
Gang Member
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Taxi to the barn!
That's the best!
Taxi to the barn!
That's the best!
I use "Anchorage tower, Cessna xxxxx clear ILS 7R".
Random question, what is GCA? Sometimes approach will hand us off to Elmendorf GCA, and sometimes Elmendorf tower?
Thanks. That was a great explanation.Everything you ever wanted to know about Radar Approaches, by Me.
http://forums.jetcareers.com/43521-post1.html
Okay, so the general consensus is that you should throw a position in there as well? e.g. "Gotham Tower, Airliner 1234, one zero DME, ILS runway 36"?
On initial VFR call up to tower I had a tiny mixup, it went as follows:
"bumblescum tower, nxxxxx 10 south, 2500 feet, foxtrot"
"nxxxxx say intentions"
I'm guessing he wanted to verify we were landing there, right? I only ask because I thought it was pretty obvious we were full stop, or do I need to say that every time I go in VFR....?
If you weren't handed off from an approach facility who already passed on your request, then the tower was probably just wondering what you wanted. I typically just say "<active runway> cleared to land" anyway, and I'll let you call back if you want something different.
The confusion was that we sometimes get pilots that say:
Pilot: "N12345 is 10 south with foxtrot"
Controler: "N12345, Tower, enter left downwind, Runway 19 cleared to land"
Pilot: "N345, actually we wanted to transition to the north/stay in the pattern/requesting stop and go/touch and go/take pictures over the city/many other operations that may be requested within the surface area"
Happens all the time on ground control also. How am I supposed to know, just because they checked on with callsign and position, that they want to taxi to the active, or pick up their clearance, or taxi to the active WHILE picking up their clearance, or taxi BACK to the active instead of to parking from the runway. I'll typically throw out the most likely instruction and let them call back again if it's not what they wanted, just to have the POTENTIAL of not wasting more frequency time with vague communique.
I guess the main reason I was thinking about this (probably over-thinking) was:
With every other facility, we check on with altitude, but not tower. I haven't heard anyone recommend that we check on to tower with altitude, and I can't remember ever doing it myself.
One thing I've noticed is that in international ops the tower will sometimes ask you for your position or DME if you don't give it them on initial contact. They'll often ask you to report certain DME points as well. I can only assume this due to the lack of radar in their facilities, and that in the US it's largely unecessary.
Anyway, I'm referring to IFR ops in this discussion. Obviously when VFR you're going to report your position as base/downwind/final, not that I often have the pleasure of doing that anymore.