Description should include the following:
- A towered airport has an operating control tower.
- Air traffic control (ATC) is responsible for providing the safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic at airports where the type of operations and/or volume of traffic requires such a service.
- Pilots operating from a towered airport are required to maintain two-way radio communication with ATC and to acknowledge and comply with their instructions.
- Pilots must advise ATC if they cannot comply with the instructions issued and request amended instructions.
- A pilot may deviate from an air traffic instruction in an emergency, but must advise ATC of the deviation as soon as possible.
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