New Ulm Municipal Airport frequencies

New Ulm Municipal Airport (ULM · KULM) in New Ulm, MN has no control tower, so nobody is sequencing traffic here — you announce your own position on 123.0. Every frequency below is in the order you tune it. · Open on the map

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Before taxi

ASOS/AWOS 118.325
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 123.0
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 123.0
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 127.1 (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 123.0

Nobody is sequencing traffic at KULM, 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 — 123.0 is not unique to New Ulm Municipal Airport.

  • Inbound, 10 miles out New Ulm traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, one zero miles south, inbound landing runway 04, New Ulm.
  • Entering the pattern New Ulm traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, entering left downwind runway 04, New Ulm.
  • Before taking the runway New Ulm traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, departing runway 04, New Ulm.

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

By procedure & sector (2 more)
121.725APT REMARK 3 WITH GCO FREQ
290.2REDWOOD FALLS RCAG (LOW)
Every KULM frequency, as one table
ASOS/AWOS118.325
CTAF123.0
UNICOM123.0
Flight service127.1 (LOW)

Frequently asked

What is the CTAF at KULM?

New Ulm Municipal Airport is non towered. The common traffic advisory frequency is 123.0 — announce your position and intentions on entry and on each leg of the pattern.

What is the ASOS/AWOS frequency at KULM?

ASOS/AWOS at New Ulm Municipal Airport is 118.325. It is an automated broadcast, so there is no letter to report — just take the altimeter setting and wind.