Small Airport Etiquette for Airplane Aviation

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Our current location is the Johnson County Airport, located outside of Smithfield, North Carolina. And it's pretty representative of most community airports around the country. A lot of people that maybe haven't been involved in aviation are under the impression that all airports incorporate control towers, and ATC, and airliners of every description. But that's actually a very small percentage of airports in the United States. Airports that most communities contain are representative of this in that there is no control tower. There usually is a common frequency that most of the pilots use, and that's called Unicom. There are several Unicom frequencies. But essentially pilots arriving and departing from airports of this manner basically tune that frequency. They monitor it, they note which direction the traffic is arriving and departing from the airport, and in turn they adjust their entry so that they can enter the pattern on the downwind leg for the active runway. And essentially everybody just kind of gets in and out of here by paying attention to one another and communicating as necessary. That's about it.

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