Blue Canyon Nyack Airport frequencies

Blue Canyon Nyack Airport (BLU · KBLU) in Emigrant Gap, CA has no control tower, so nobody is sequencing traffic here — you announce your own position on 122.9. Every frequency below is in the order you tune it. · Open on the map

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Before taxi

ASOS/AWOS 120.075
An automated weather station reading the field conditions aloud — wind, visibility, ceiling, temperature and altimeter. It replaces ATIS at a field with no controller to record one. Get the altimeter setting before you descend below the transition altitude.

Taxi & takeoff

CTAF 122.9
The common frequency pilots use to announce themselves to each other at a field with no operating control tower. Nobody is controlling traffic — you are self announcing. Report your position and intentions on entry and on each leg of the pattern, and listen well before you transmit.

What to say on 122.9

Nobody is sequencing traffic at KBLU, so every call is you telling other aircraft where you are. Open and close with the field name so a pilot tuned to a shared frequency knows which airport you mean — 122.9 is not unique to Blue Canyon Nyack Airport.

  • Inbound, 10 miles out Blue Canyon Nyack traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, one zero miles south, inbound landing runway 15, Blue Canyon Nyack.
  • Entering the pattern Blue Canyon Nyack traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, entering left downwind runway 15, Blue Canyon Nyack.
  • Before taking the runway Blue Canyon Nyack traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, departing runway 15, Blue Canyon Nyack.

Pattern direction is not always left here — check the KBLU traffic pattern before you announce a leg. The Chart Supplement is authoritative if KBLU publishes a call name that differs from the airport's. Full guidance →

Every KBLU frequency, as one table
ASOS/AWOS120.075
CTAF122.9

Frequently asked

What is the CTAF at KBLU?

Blue Canyon Nyack Airport is non towered. The common traffic advisory frequency is 122.9 — announce your position and intentions on entry and on each leg of the pattern.

What is the ASOS/AWOS frequency at KBLU?

ASOS/AWOS at Blue Canyon Nyack Airport is 120.075. It is an automated broadcast, so there is no letter to report — just take the altimeter setting and wind.