Contacting Tower

[Sandals]

Hi, First post here :)

Just a quick question, when contacting Tower after contacting departure/ arrival I am always warned with check tutorials.

Yesterday I did so and I used report position, got the tutorial message. Just now I tried announce inbound and again I got the message.

What is the correct phrase I need to use in this situation. Any help would be great :)

[Matt]

Hi, welcome to the forum!

After a clearance from approach you need to contact tower saying, inbound on the ILS/Visual. All of this is help fully explained by one of the old IF staff in this tutorial, Using ATC During Your Flight. If you still have questions after this then reply below and we’ll help you out.

[Sandals]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the reply, I did inbound for landing before and got that warning, I’m just really confused. It’s been two different ATC on two different occasions, do you recommend just using inbound on x runway?

[Sandals]

Here are two examples that I encountered

[Matt]

If you’ve been cleared for an ILS approach then you need to call inbound on the ILS runway xx. Not just inbound to runway xx.

Hope that clears it up.

[Sandals]

Ah Matt, to be honest that makes so much sense hahaha I do feel silly not doing the ILS landing :)

Thank you for helping and clearing this up

[azeeuwnl]

Welcome to this wonderful forum!

Check out this tutorial. You’ll find answers you didn’t even know you could ask 😉

Approach Types

In this article I try to outline the different approach types, and how to communicate with Approach and Tower ATC’s. Other posts have written on this; this tries to bring them together. [Approach%20types] ILS/GPS approach The most common and widely used for airliners. When in doubt, use this. Latest update allows us to request ILS/GPS for any runway; unless you are desperately in love with a specific runway, I suggest you use this. It may happen, during busy times, the Approach ATC will onl…

The last table in this tutorial is this one

[Sandals]

oh perfect. Thank you for the link. I just have a read of that now. Thanks for all the help. I do forget about all of the information already made available for situations like this.