Scammon Bay Airport frequencies

Scammon Bay Airport (SCM · PACM) in Scammon Bay, AK 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 118.425
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 124.5 (LOW/HIGH)
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 PACM, 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 Scammon Bay Airport.

  • Inbound, 10 miles out Scammon Bay traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, one zero miles south, inbound landing runway 11, Scammon Bay.
  • Entering the pattern Scammon Bay traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, entering left downwind runway 11, Scammon Bay.
  • Before taking the runway Scammon Bay traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, departing runway 11, Scammon Bay.

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

Every PACM frequency, as one table
ASOS/AWOS118.425
CTAF123.0
UNICOM123.0
Flight service124.5 (LOW/HIGH)

Frequently asked

What is the CTAF at PACM?

Scammon Bay 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 PACM?

ASOS/AWOS at Scammon Bay Airport is 118.425. It is an automated broadcast, so there is no letter to report — just take the altimeter setting and wind.