Wycombe Air Park (EGTB) radio calls

Frequencies

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

Radio calls at Wycombe Air Park

Wycombe Air Park is an air/ground station, so the callsign is “Wycombe Air Park Radio”. The operator passes information about the aerodrome and what they can see. No clearances, no instructions, and no traffic service — every decision is yours. The exchange below follows CAP 413 Edition 24 §4.153.

1. Before taxi

   Wycombe Air Park Radio 126.555

   Wycombe Air Park Radio, G-ABCD, radio check one two six decimal five five five and request taxi information.

   G-ABCD, Wycombe Air Park Radio, readability five, runway zero six, QNH one zero one five.

   “Taxi information”, not “taxi”: at an air/ground station you are told what is in use, and whether and when to taxi is your decision — the operator never says “at your discretion” (CAP 413 Edition 24 §4.152). A radio check is the station, your callsign, the words “radio check” and the frequency you are on (§2.93).

2. Readback

   126.555

   G-ABCD, readability five also, taxiing for runway zero six, QNH one zero one five.

   G-CD, roger.

   You say what you are doing — “taxiing for” — and the runway and pressure setting are read back (§2.69). “Roger” is all that comes back.

3. Ready

   126.555

   G-CD, ready for departure.

   G-CD, roger, no reported traffic, surface wind two one zero degrees eight knots.

   Nobody clears you for take-off. You are told the traffic and the wind, and the decision is yours.

4. Taking off

   126.555

   Roger, taking off, G-CD.

   Tell the operator what you are doing, as CAP 413 §4.153 shows.

5. Downwind

   126.555

   G-CD, downwind.

   G-CD, roger.

6. Final

   126.555

   G-CD, final.

   G-CD, roger, surface wind two three zero degrees one zero knots.

   An air/ground operator does not say “land at your discretion” and cannot clear you. “Roger” and the wind is the whole of it.

7. Vacated

   126.555

   G-CD, runway vacated.

   G-CD, roger.

Practise these calls at EGTB

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