Common traffic advisory frequency

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 ...

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 tower.

CTAF (Common Traffic Advisory Frequency) The radio frequency, also called the UNICOM frequency, used by all traffic at an airport without an operating control towerto coordinate approaches and landings, takeoffs and departures.

Common traffic advisory frequency
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CTAF
The Common Traffic Advisory Frequency is used at non-controlled airports as the handoff frequency for an approach facility to send a pilot/aircraft to. More often than not the pilot will not be given the frequency ...

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.

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: Airway, Controlled airspace, Air Traffic Control, Approach control, Air traffic