Small Transport
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 2
Communication Breakdown
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Incursion Taxiway; Ground Incursion Runway
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert
Human Factors
I opened the Tower and worked all positions. It was in the beginning and the Tower had just opened. Aircraft X was on the main ramp. He made a transmission the way an aircraft would if the Tower was not open. I observed him and issued taxi instructions. I continued to call him over and over. I had no other aircraft even close to the airspace or on the movement areas. Since I was working both positions combined I was transmitting on both Tower and Ground frequency. I had an Air Carrier talking to me on ground; so I knew I was going out on ground; and I had an Air Carrier 35 miles out on an approach so I know local frequency was working. Aircraft X then took the active and departed. I called his company from the landline and got a hold of him that way. He called me on Tower frequency 6 miles to the west; [and] then I issued the brasher warning. None; it was an honest mistake early in the morning. It was not a big deal.
JNU Tower Controller reports of opening Tower; observing an aircraft on the movement area and tries to contact it.