Control Towered Airport Communication

Great video Joe! Made it so clear to me. :)

loved the video! thanks for the help!!

Thanks Joe you were of great help, very clear and easy to understand. Slightly different runway marking in Australia but I plan to visit the US with my plane, so I don't want any surprises when I get there.

A ifr communications videos would be cool, loved the video, I can actually hear your voice when flying haha

Shouldn't you at first have communicated with Chicago Approach before entering the 30 nm ring?

When leaving a tower controlled airport, you must stay on the frequency until clear of the tower controlled airspace. Do you need to inform them when you are leaving their airspace? The reason I ask is because I am a student pilot and on my solo cross country the tower asked me my position ( I think that is what they were asking, I was busy with other stuff at the time), even though I was out of their airspace. They were busy with other traffic, so I never did contact them again because I was well away from the airport by the time everyone had stopped talking.

I'm still a student pilot and have not heard a better explanation of towered airport communications until now.  This was great!! Thanks Joe!

Excellent. Thank you

Very clear and easy to understand, THX

VERY GOOD PRESENTATION...even for Europe !

very good thank you

Another question (thanks for answering my other one): When the tower says they will call your base, what would be the normal operating procedure? Since you would be on the downwind and past the threshold, I assume you will want to begin the normal procedures of flaps, reduced power, descent airspeed. But then, while waiting for the tower to call your base, do you maintain a certain altitude and airspeed? Pattern altitude would be too high, maybe maintain the altitude that you would normally be at when you turn base?

Thanks for the reassuring approach that "this is no big deal when you get right down to it".

Very helpful, checkride in 2 weeks for me!

not a lot of videos out there explaining procedures with ATC. very helpful, thank you!

Very informative.  Thanks

Very good instructional video!  I'm flying to my first towered airport next week and this is was a great help in preparing!

Very helpful. Thank you!

Hey Joe! Can you do a video about copying IFR Clearances? Your communications video is helpful. Good Job.

Thank you for this great lesson!

thanks joe im in the uk and you have helped me greatly your web site is top class im not a pilot yet but i hope to be. im starting with gyrocopter lessons later this year so im all over the internet to learn about all aspects of flying. you are the best person ive found to help me so far. it was a very good idea to put a communication film on. thanks  phil

This is a great informative video. I´m getting started into flying and this has been extremely useful. Thank you from Uruguay for this clear tutorial

I'm not seeing a reply button for comments anymore, so if I don't reply it's because I am trying to figure out what happened!

thanks good information!!

Just added 6 new pdf e-lessons to my flight instructor joe site for IFR training. Thinking about doing some videos for IFR stuff too but still deciding on what subject to use.

Thank you

Easiest to follow video. Well done and looking forward more. Thanks. 

Excellent video! My first 13 flight hours were based out of an airport without a tower, and now I'm training at a rather busy towered airport. The transition was quite overwhelming due to my lack of experience of talking to ATC, so thank you VERY much for clearly describing the process!! Keep up the great work, and I am looking forward to more videos.

I like this,  It's to the point, no frills, no goofy music, no long boring intros, just telling me what I need to know, which is why I clicked on the video in the first place.  That's great, good job.   Thanks for doing this.  Will be checking out more of your videos.

thank you. only lesson i found without crap.

Extremely good overview.

great video.

Hello Dear Joe...Thank you very much for your explicit explanations on communication and use of runways which are now simple to me.God bless you.

Good job really thank you but could you tell me what did you say after saying
"You're number 2 follow ..... " I didn't hear follow what?

Awesome sir!!!! Im a big fan now, Thank you from Brazil.

Excellent

thank you Joe for this lesson , excellent I like how easy you explain everything I new in aviation getting my sports pilot license for gyroplanes an I'm doing it from North Perry Airport in Hollywood Florida , and the description is great really affirms my little knowledge and makes more secure .. thanks again maybe you can recommend me other topics . thanks again

well done..i learned alot from this.!

+Flightinstructorjoe Thank you for making this video. I found this the most useful and instructional I have seen so far, and even better organized than the Jeppesen lesson on the same material.
If I may make a small suggestion, it'd be great to have all the communications annotated on the screen in writing, not just a selection. Thanks again.

Thank you! Excellent.

Thanks, this really makes more sense now. I am ready to go tackle one of my bigger concerns about flying.

Excellent video, very informative, a must watch for a student like myself in the Baltimore Washington corridor. Thanks for making it, will check out your website also.

Thank you so much for this vid. Absolutely scared to death flying into towered airports. You rock for doing this. Much appreciated.

Great video! Thank you for sharing information.

Obliged for the buddy-up, really made issues clear.Thanks for the take-along.

Now why can't everybody teach like this??...very well done!! Thank you!

Excellent! Able to follow. 1960 pilot getting back flying

thanks

Very helpful Joe, getting back in the air, after a 17 year hiatus. Bob

Just exactly what I needed. I thought I knew how to talk with ATC, and this helped to clarify what I should do.

This definitely eases the nerves!