Uncontrolled Tower Clearances:

Departures:

Aircraft will receive IFR clearance on the ground

Give an IFR clearance first, after read back

READ BACK IS CORRECT (Then the following)

CLEARANCE VOID IF NOT OFF BY (time). TIME NOW (current time).

IF NOT OFF BY (clearance void time), ADVISE (facility) NOT LATER THAN (time) OF INTENTIONS.

IF NOT OFF BY (time), ADVISE (facility) NOT LATER THAN (time) OF INTENTIONS.

TIME NOW (time in hours, minutes, and nearest quarter minute).

Hold for release (HFR)

“Hold for release” instructions must be used when necessary to inform a pilot or a controller
that a departure clearance is not valid until additional instructions are received.

When issuing hold for release instructions, include departure delay information.

When conditions allow, release the aircraft as soon as possible.

NOTE-

A release time is a departure restriction issued to a pilot (either directly or through authorized
relay) to separate a departing aircraft from other traffic.

PHRASEOLOGY-
HOLD FOR RELEASE, EXPECT (time in hours and/or minutes) DEPARTURE DELAY.

Arrivals:

Arrivals are similar to those to towered airports, the only differences being the fact that you
don't assign a runway and you must handoff the aircraft to UNICOMM.

VFR Traffic

Controllers may initiate, or pilots may request, a visual approach even when an aircraft is being
vectored for an instrument approach and the pilot subsequently reports:
The airport or the runway in sight at airports with operating control towers.
The airport in sight at airports without a control tower.

PHRASEOLOGY-
(Call sign) (control instructions as required) CLEARED VISUAL APPROACH TO (airport name)

Example-
N123, cleared visual approach to Boulder City Airport
Instrument approaches

If the instrument approach is a circling approach, do not state a runway to circle. Circling
approach instructions may only be given for aircraft landing at airports with operational control
towers.

Example-
N123, cleared VOR-A approach

Communication release

IFR Traffic

If necessary, before instructing an IFR aircraft arriving at an airport not served by an air traffic
control tower or flight service station to change to the common traffic advisory frequency,
provide the pilot with instructions on how to cancel his/her IFR flight plan.

PHRASEOLOGY--
(Call sign) AIRPORT IS AT YOUR (clock position) REPORT IN SIGHT.
After aircraft has the field in sight:
REPORT CANCELLATION OF IFR IN THE AIR OR ON THE GROUND (frequency).

If IFR Cancellation received in the air:

(Call Sign) IFR CANCELLATION RECEVIED (current zulu time), SQUAWK VFR, FREQUENCY
CHANGE APPROVED.
The purpose of canceling IFR in the air when weather conditions permit is to expedite the flow
of traffic, as no other aircraft may arrive or depart under IFR until the arriving aircraft cancels
IFR, either in the air or on the ground.