Narrative:

The following situation occurs very frequently at the airport; but this particular time was enough to make me finally submit this complaint. When making my initial call on the CTAF/unicom; the wisconsin aviation worker at the FBO keys the mic on the ground and makes a long winded welcome message; [they include] a lot of information that is not needed nor desired by pilots who are landing there. I have been told that their corporate bosses make them do this; but it is extremely excessive and needs to stop before it causes an accident. This particular day; there were several aircraft trying to communicate with each other; all making the proper recommended traffic calls; but this long winded welcome message from the FBO gets repeated over and over for each aircraft; stepping on several important radio transmissions with useless information that each pilot already had. Furthermore; once finally on the ground; the FBO employee again keys the mic; and makes another long winded message about whether fuel is needed; if any services are required; where you will be parking; and so on; again stepping on important transmissions of aircraft which are still in the air and trying to sequence into the pattern. I understand the FBO is trying to be welcoming; but they need to do that on a separate frequency and leave the CTAF for traffic which is trying not to crash into other traffic by communicating their position. As I mentioned at the beginning of this narrative; this situation occurs all the time at this airport. I always hear pilots complain about the long winded messages from ZZZ; and it's only a matter of time before a crash occurs because the aircraft in the vicinity cannot communicate with each other because of these unnecessary transmissions from the ground.

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Title: C172 Pilot Flying reported FBO filling CTAF with excessive information and blocking critical pilot communications.

Narrative: The following situation occurs very frequently at the airport; but this particular time was enough to make me finally submit this complaint. When making my initial call on the CTAF/UNICOM; the Wisconsin Aviation worker at the FBO keys the mic on the ground and makes a long winded welcome message; [they include] a lot of information that is not needed nor desired by pilots who are landing there. I have been told that their corporate bosses make them do this; but it is extremely excessive and needs to stop before it causes an accident. This particular day; there were several aircraft trying to communicate with each other; all making the proper recommended traffic calls; but this long winded welcome message from the FBO gets repeated over and over for each aircraft; stepping on several IMPORTANT radio transmissions with useless information that each pilot already had. Furthermore; once finally on the ground; the FBO employee again keys the mic; and makes another long winded message about whether fuel is needed; if any services are required; where you will be parking; and so on; AGAIN stepping on important transmissions of aircraft which are still in the air and trying to sequence into the pattern. I understand the FBO is trying to be welcoming; but they need to do that on a separate frequency and leave the CTAF for traffic which is trying not to crash into other traffic by communicating their position. As I mentioned at the beginning of this narrative; this situation occurs all the time at this airport. I always hear pilots complain about the long winded messages from ZZZ; and it's only a matter of time before a crash occurs because the aircraft in the vicinity cannot communicate with each other because of these unnecessary transmissions from the ground.

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