Salem-Leckrone Airport frequencies

Salem-Leckrone Airport (SLO · KSLO) in Salem, IL has no control tower, so nobody is sequencing traffic here — you announce your own position on 122.725. Every frequency below is in the order you tune it. · Open on the map

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Before taxi

ASOS/AWOS 118.525
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 122.725
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.
UNICOM 122.725
A ground station run by the FBO rather than the FAA, for fuel, parking and airport services. Use it for services. Where the field has no separate CTAF, the same frequency doubles as the advisory frequency.

Also

Flight service 127.7 (LOW)
Flight Service handles briefings, flight plans and en route advisories, reached here through a remote outlet. Open and close VFR flight plans, and get updated weather in the air. 1-800-WX-BRIEF reaches the same specialists from the ground.

What to say on 122.725

Nobody is sequencing traffic at KSLO, 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 — 122.725 is not unique to Salem-Leckrone Airport.

  • Inbound, 10 miles out Salem-Leckrone traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, one zero miles south, inbound landing runway 18, Salem-Leckrone.
  • Entering the pattern Salem-Leckrone traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, entering left downwind runway 18, Salem-Leckrone.
  • Before taking the runway Salem-Leckrone traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, departing runway 18, Salem-Leckrone.

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

By procedure & sector (1 more)
351.825MOUNT VERNON RCAG (LOW)
Every KSLO frequency, as one table
ASOS/AWOS118.525
CTAF122.725
UNICOM122.725
Flight service127.7 (LOW)

Frequently asked

What is the CTAF at KSLO?

Salem-Leckrone Airport is non towered. The common traffic advisory frequency is 122.725 — announce your position and intentions on entry and on each leg of the pattern.

What is the ASOS/AWOS frequency at KSLO?

ASOS/AWOS at Salem-Leckrone Airport is 118.525. It is an automated broadcast, so there is no letter to report — just take the altimeter setting and wind.