Newquay (EGHQ) radio calls

Frequencies

These frequencies have been checked by hand. Always confirm against the current AIP before flight.

Radio calls at Newquay

Newquay 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

   Newquay ATIS 127.405

   (listen)

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

2. Taxi

   Newquay Ground 121.955

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

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

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

3. Readback

   121.955

   Taxi to holding point Alpha runway one two, 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

   Newquay Tower 134.380

   G-CD, ready for departure.

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

5. Downwind

   Newquay Tower 134.380

   G-CD, downwind.

   G-CD, report final.

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

6. Final and landing

   Newquay Tower 134.380

   G-CD, final.

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

   A landing clearance is read back in full.

7. Vacating

   Newquay Tower 134.380

   G-CD, runway vacated.

   G-CD, contact Ground 121.955.

Practise these calls at EGHQ

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