Bournemouth (EGHH) radio calls

Frequencies

1 of these 5 frequencies have been checked by hand; the 4 marked “unchecked” have not. Confirm against the current AIP before flight.

Radio calls at Bournemouth

Bournemouth has an air traffic control unit, so you are given clearances and instructions, and the mandatory items are read back in full.

1. Before you start

   Bournemouth ATIS 133.725

   (listen)

   Information letter, runway in use and QNH before you transmit.

2. Taxi

   Bournemouth Ground 121.700

   Bournemouth Ground, G-ABCD, Cessna 152 at the flying club with information Alpha, request taxi.

   G-ABCD, taxi to holding point Alpha for runway zero eight, QNH one zero one five.

   Taxi instructions, the runway in use and the pressure setting are all mandatory readbacks.

3. Readback

   121.700

   Taxi to holding point Alpha runway zero eight, QNH one zero one five, G-CD.

   Read back what must be read back, and include your callsign — CAP 413 says a readback always carries it.

4. Departure

   Bournemouth Tower 125.600

   G-CD, ready for departure.

   G-CD, runway zero eight, cleared for take-off, surface wind two four zero degrees eight knots.

5. Downwind

   Bournemouth Tower 125.600

   G-CD, downwind.

   G-CD, report final.

   “Report final” is an instruction, so the answer is “Wilco”, never “Roger”.

6. Final and landing

   Bournemouth Tower 125.600

   G-CD, final.

   G-CD, runway zero eight, cleared to land, surface wind two four zero degrees eight knots.

   A landing clearance is read back in full.

7. Vacating

   Bournemouth Tower 125.600

   G-CD, runway vacated.

   G-CD, contact Ground 121.700.

Practise these calls at EGHH

Nearby airfields

• EGHA Compton Abbas16 nm
• EGHI Southampton21 nm
• EGHF Lee-on-Solent24 nm
• EGHR Goodwood41 nm
• EGGD Bristol49 nm