| Service | Frequency |
|---|---|
| Information | 120.255 |
Verified against the UK eAIP, AIRAC 09/2026.
Barton (City Manchester) has a Flight Information Service, so the station is “Barton (City Manchester) Information”. An AFIS gives you information and traffic, not instructions: nobody clears you to land, and the decision is yours.
Initial call
Barton (City Manchester) Information 120.255
Barton (City Manchester) Information, G-ABCD.
G-ABCD, Barton (City Manchester) Information, pass your message.
Passing your message
120.255
G-ABCD, Cessna 152, 5 miles south, 2,000 feet on QNH one zero one five, inbound to land, request joining instructions.
G-ABCD, runway two three right hand, QNH one zero one five, two aircraft in the circuit, report overhead.
The runway and QNH are read back. “Report overhead” is answered “Wilco”.
Overhead join
120.255
Runway two three right hand, QNH one zero one five, wilco, G-CD.
An AFIS cannot clear you to join — it tells you the runway and what else is about, and you position yourself.
Downwind
120.255
G-CD, downwind.
G-CD, roger, number two to a Cessna on base.
Final
120.255
G-CD, final.
G-CD, roger, surface wind two four zero degrees eight knots, land at your discretion.
“Land at your discretion”, never “cleared to land” — that is the difference an examiner listens for.
Vacated
120.255
G-CD, runway vacated.
G-CD, roger, taxi at your discretion.
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