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Old 23rd May 2007, 18:23
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FlyingForFun

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- no, on information field you don't have to request movements on ground
If it is an information airfield then of course there is no Air Traffic Control officer, and no clearances can be given so it is not appropriate to request one
Complete, total crap, I'm afraid.

G-mady, it's very rare to get wrong answers to totally factual questions from two different sources on PPRuNe, but in this case it's happened.

The document to reference is CAP 413, which is freely downloadable from the CAA's website, at http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP413.PDF.

Chapter 4, Section 2 contains everything you need to know about airfiels providing an AFISO. Table 1, on page 69 of the .PDF file, contains phraseology to be used by the AFISO, including:
"(Aircraft callsign) taxi holding point (designation) runway (designation) via (route)"
This looks very similar to what you'd hear at an airfield with full ATC.

What's more, two pages later, in paragraph 2.3.3, there are examples of typical pilot/FISO RTF exchanges. The very first thing in this paragraph is an example of a call by an aircraft:
G-ABCD, request taxi instructions

Both these quotes are specifically related to airfields with AFIS, callsign Information, such as those you ask about.

If you're in any doubt, I suggest you ask your local friendly flying instructor!

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