ADVISORY FREQUENCY- The appropriate frequency to be used for Airport Advisory Service.
ADVISORY SERVICE- Advice and information provided by a facility to assist pilots in the safe conduct of flight and aircraft movement.
Common traffic advisory frequency
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COMMON TRAFFIC ADVISORY FREQUENCY(CTAF)
A frequency designed for the purpose of carrying out airport advisory practices while operating to or from an airport without an operating control tow...
Common Traffic Advisory Frequency (CTAF)
A CTAF is used to allow pilots to communicate their intentions and positions to each other while operating at an uncontrolled field (or one that is functioning as an uncontrolled field when the twoer is ...
It would be best to monitor the advisory frequency during the approach for other traffic on your #2 radio. When told to contact CTAF be sure to advise traffic that you are on the IFR approach.
Similarly, avoid using IFR terminology on the airport traffic-advisory frequency, since not all pilots are instrument rated.
UNICOM A common, multi-purpose radio frequency used at most nontowered airports as the Common Traffic Advisory Frequency. AOPA coined the term (derived from the words "universal communications") in the 1950s.
The next line states COMMUNICATIONS and provides you with the Common Traffic Advisory Frequency (CTAF), which is 118.5, followed by the Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) 125.9.
CTAF (Common Traffic Advisory Frequency) — The radio frequency, also called the UNICOM frequency, used by all traffic at an airport without an operating control tower to coordinate approaches and landings, takeoffs and departures.
CTAF - Common Traffic Advisory Frequency - Aviation Term - Abbreviation / Acronym
Related Definitions from Aviation Glossary
GSA
GHA
Military Operations Area (MOA)
ATA - Air Transport Association
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Non-towered airports are not 'uncontrolled.' Pilots follow traffic pattern procedures and self-announce positions and intentions using the Common Traffic Advisory Frequency (CTAF), usually called the UNICOM frequency.
 See also: Airport, Advisory, Aircraft, Service, Pilot
  
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