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FAA To Close 238 Air Traffic Control Towers, Including 20 In Florida; See List

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The FAA has released the list of ATC control towers they plan to close as part of the steps it is taking due to the federal government sequestration. Of the 238 towers that will close on April 7... (www.thefloridanewsjournal.com) Mehr...

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jaywisch
Jay Wischkaemper 9
Most of them shouldn't have been open in the first place. It's not a safety issue, just a pride and political one. The tower at PVW was closed when Reagan fired the controllers, and has never been missed. One on the list is KHOB. I've been by that airport many times and flown into it a few, and have never seen traffic levels that justified a tower. If the cities want a tower, they can pay for one.
THRUSTT
THRUSTT 2
Exactly, you want it , pay for it.
jwllane
Jerry Lane 1
I was at PVW when it closed. The FAA spent some $ later in the 80s refurbishing it with plans of reopening, but never did.
spinoneone
Paul Wisgerhof 7
Very interesting that as a direct slap at general aviation they picked "our" airports at Fredrick, MD, and Oshkosh, WI. Those support, respectively, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and the Experimental Aircraft Association.
hiflier32
ric lang 1
Interesting comment! That tower at Oshgosh is for one week a year, the busiest tower in the U.S.A.....Can't say the same for a bunch of others , however. KPWK comes to mind.
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
Are you from Chicago area or just fly to there? Have you ever been to c56 out south? It is awesome. My brother lives there. It is probably the most georgeous GA terminal I have ever seen. Is owned by Jim Bult privately but open to the public.
canuck44
canuck44 6
Who are they kidding? Budget constraints? With almost one Billion more to spend this year over last year?

Orlando Executive about 250,000 movements per year with overlapping airspace with MCO.
Page Field about 75,000 movements per year overlapping with RSW
Opa-Locka Executive with around 150,000 movements per year overlapping with MIA.
FAA budget: $500 million for consultants and $200 Million for travel.

What could go wrong?
bearcaat12
Nick Stoker 1
I'm a comm. student at ORL and am a bit worried about the closure. I can deal with it of course, but the other day I was landing at Executive and was the 4th to land and there were 5 waiting to take off. There's no way that will go cleanly if they do close us and we're left to manage that ourselves...
preacher1
preacher1 3
Well, as it stands, they need to get away from the meat ax approach and put a scalpel in hand and I really think that this list, along with cuts by other agencies, are works in progress. You notice that they are now going to allow the cities/airports to try and justify their towers. There will undoubtedly be some exceptions and it is situations just as yours that need to be strongly looked at. However it goes, it will take some getting used to as some have grown up with nothing but towers and have never flown much in uncontrolled airspace. That will be one item that will have to be stressed harder in training, regardless of who you are.
THRUSTT
THRUSTT 1
You'll be okay, as long as everyone follows the rulebook...
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
Cut the 500 mil for consultants, cut travel expenses by 125 mil, and still close the towers. You can't get in and out of the airports in busy airspace without talking to app/dep anyhow unless you virtually tree top it. Just have to be able to taxi without running into each other. Lol
THRUSTT
THRUSTT 1
We just had our streets paved in our development, there was a consulting engineer on hand hired by the town to oversee the paving. The end result was a shitty job!!!
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 8
My local tower is on the list. Has been opened and closed several times over the years. I think we will be just fine without it. No big deal.
THRUSTT
THRUSTT 2
ATCguy1
ATCguy1 -2
No big deal?...tell that to the controllers losing their jobs.
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 11
I was talking from a safety standpoint. That said, all cuts are going to affect somebody's job. There is no job security. I have had a couple changes of direction myself. That's life. And I might add that government in general needs to be on the block and feel some of what the private sector has expierenced.
portersteel
frank porter 5
I Will second that!!
preacher1
preacher1 2
You know, it is really strange how things have changed in a lifetime though. It used to be, prior to the junk bond craze of the eary 80's, that there was a fair sense of security on jobs and at companies. Dad worked at the mill and he brought his son on and so it went. 2 and 3 generations on the floor at the same company. Corporations making money, having a group of companies feeding off each other and all making money. Then the junk bonds and all the get rich quick schemes came along and nothing is sacred. CEO's are obligated to the stockholders at the expense of the working class and so it goes. We all rail about it but it is just a sign of the times
timbus
timbus 10
This administration gives the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt fighter jets, tanks, and $250 million with no strings attached yet closes the White House tours, control towers and curtails tuition assistance promised to our men and women in uniform. Priorities are not in order here.
zennermd
zennermd 2
It isn't just this administration. That has been going on for many years before. Though I do agree they are not cutting the correct things first.
timbus
timbus 5
I agree this has been going on for many years from many administrations, but not to the Muslim Brotherhood, people who don't like us very much. Think about it, we are borrowing money from the Chinese to give fighter jets, tanks and cash to the Muslim Brotherhood and then closing ATC towers in the US. Does that make any sense?
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 5
We are the only country on the face of the earth dumb enough to borrow money to give to other countries. Those people in DC sure know how to take care of the taxpayers money.
ukflight
William Hall 3
It happens in the UK as well. Charity begins at home not thousands of miles away.
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 0
I stand corrected sir. Sorry you have to be part of the dumbest country list too.
Piper63
Rich Greenwood 1
Yep. Not only give our military resources away, but lets give them to the Mooselimbs. They intend to take us Infidels over anyway. Our mooselimb pres. will just make it easier for his buddies
howg23
Ray Arment 3
Ladies and Gentlemen; I thought this site is about airplanes, aviation and respect for each other.
chalet
chalet 3
All the personal flights and flight schools out of North Perry and Boca Raton and all the substantial corporate jet and cargo flights out of Opa Locka (all inside the Miami Center) will have to shut down as the Center is not going to allow "uncontrolled VFR" departures or arrivals so close to Miami Int. and Ft. Lauderdale Int. which combined log thousands of operations a day. This is utter nonsense, it can not last.
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
You don't need a tower to depart IFR. You get your clearance from departure. Done at airports all over the country. Will it slow the system down? Probably. You also get a clearance to depart VFR. That is also done routinely.
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
Besides, places like this will probably keep their towers. Right now it's all scare tactics. BUT, there is plenty of room to accomplish the cuts.
chalet
chalet 1
You only have to watch the amount of instruction flying west of KHWO towards the Glades, the CFIs and the student pilots are in constant contact with this tower and with Opa Locka if go fly south just a tad. I agree this is scare tactics and that there is plenty of cuts that are justified.
THRUSTT
THRUSTT 1
I was VFR 2 weeks ago from APF to PBI over the glades, didn't even see a gator let alone a plane. Most places aren't going to be as bad as people are making it out to be.
chalet
chalet 1
Your eyesight should be way phenomenal, what brand of rum do you sip and how much a day(LIMAO!!)
THRUSTT
THRUSTT 1
Gave that up years ago
chalet
chalet 1
Really? Ok, I believe u
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
Planning an APF-DAB pretty soon and I'll VFR cause I want the scenic route and scenic altitude. Sometimes it ain't all about speed.
chalet
chalet 1
You got to have a phenomenal eyesight, on another subject what kind of rum and how many sips a day you drink (LOL!!)
ltflaten
LT Flaten 2
hard to imagine AirVenture (OSH) without ATC!
richsmit
Richard Smith 2
I see it as the opposite. The Republicans, especially on the far right (Tea Party ) want government to fail, and therefore are trying to starve it of funding, ala' Grover Norquist. When essential services fail, such as ATC, they will part out the whole thing including radar ops, on the theory that private industry does it better and cheaper. Plus, there is more money for their corporate campaign donors. This gridlock will continue until the voters reduce their power to nothing, or they win and Libertarianism takes over. Call me paranoid, but.....
khaiduk
Kevin Haiduk 2
My understanding from other news reports I heard is that this list includes towers which operations would be curtailed, but not cut completely. For example, Stinson Municipal in San Antonio (KSSF) is on this list but local news says the hours would be cut only. So not sure what to make of this list.
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 2
I think this list is a work in progress and nothing is a done deal yet.
eagle763
John Hale 2
WOW! a bunch of big non commercial airports in Texas on the list including the biggest one being in Georgetown. good grief.
julianjim
jim garrity 2
Our tower,which is CDF/CalFire air base in Ramona,Ca. is on the "hit list",but we operated up until about 8-9 years ago without a tower,however it's been getting busier with fire/private mix over the past few years and the tower was of good use for fire traffic control!
centexair
pete weston 2
well lets hope it will not happen but if a midair takes place who is going to be blamed the pilots or the faa we all know where most of them take place so heads out the window is even more important
AABABY
AABABY 2
Closing Lakeland/ Linder? Sun-N-Fun will be a real nightmare without ATC.The place just got started with commercial service on a regular basis, So much for that.
sstuff
sstuff 2
The list from the FAA’s web site is titled: “Air Traffic Control Facilities That Could be Closed.” The implication is these are not definite, and subject to change.
hbejr2
Hugh Emmons 2
Closing the tower at North Perry (HWO) will probably result in a midair or runway accident. In 40+ years of flying I have never encountered a more confusing "small airport" based on parallel N/S and E/W runways, which include 01 Left and Right, and 10 Left and Right. Add in the very active banner towning pickup and drop zone in the NW corner of the airport, which requires banner towing aircraft to fly a different pattern than everyone else, and you have a mixture that WILL result in an accident. This tower should not be closed.
chalet
chalet 1
Right on Hugh, I am a customer of Pelikan Aviation so I know that you are talking about. I love this Little airport.
JJ7
JJ Johnson 3
Will Obama and his Queen cut back on their lavish vacations? Will Obama cut any of his staff that washes his feet and kisses his ass every day? The working man suffers while the King and his Court live the good life in DC. Obama is a narcissistic A-Hole. If we have to suffer, so should he and his Queen.
hiflier32
ric lang 2
WHAT'S THIS!!!! Someone who has a pulse on what's going on in this country????I was convinced that no one gave a shit about what the Hell has happened in the 4.5 years of this incompetent being in an office that Romney correctly assessed as the 47% of "americans" that do nothing to support this economy placed there. Been a Chicago landlord for some years & can tell horror stories about these folks. Yes, I know, this is an aviation oriented site...lets hope there still is an aviation site during the next 3.5 years. bTW, anyone know that the US Navy has 3 aviation wings down for maint. that is not going to happen due to the budget cuts?
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
Did you see my comment to you about c56?
pabloh36
paul holton -6
aggieflyer
aggieflyer 2
Just wait for the very unfortunate and inevitable moment when it starts raining aircraft parts over people houses. Those towers will reopen before the end of the day.
rw812
Michael Smith 1
This is just plain f**ing* BS by the Obama administration. There is NO reduction in the budget. It is a reduction in the increase of the budge. And it's only 2% spread out over a couple of years - 0.5% this year.

For those who voted for Obama - are you glad what you got? He's nothing but a narcissistic, condescending, socialist idiot.
Iskra
Iskra 2
You mean Progressive, which = Communist Not to mention lire!!! Let me tell you one thing, if he wins back the House of Representatives and keeps the
Senate in 2014, you ain't seen nothing yet..!
btweston
btweston 1
You are aware that this was not his idea, right?
cmetzler
Cookie Metzler 2
actually it was his idea....!
WeatherWise
WeatherWise -5
And God knows if Romney was at the helm we'd just be humming along in financial Mormon bliss, eh Michael Smith? Not in your wildest dreams. People who make statements like yours are the idiots.
Iskra
Iskra 1
How does it feel living in the past.. If your always looking backwards, you'll never see what's coming.. You sound line Neville Chamberlain... Learn some history.. Then learn from it...
WeatherWise
WeatherWise 3
Here's the history: Bush Admin f*cks up the country so let's blame it on Obama. Talk about your budget cuts...maybe the control towers would stay open if we weren't dropping trillions of dollars on stupid unnecessary wars.
comicpilot
comicpilot 4
Bush did get us into a useless war in Iraq no doubt but hopefully your statement does NOT mean you are still blaming Bush and ONLY Bush some 5 years later... Obama has his hands in some of our mess to this day as well..
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 2
I do believe BO said he was going to end the wars as soon as he took office--the first time! That said, I agree we need to be gone. As far as I'm concerned the day after we captured Sadam, we should have left. Don't give them any money and rebuild nothing. Same thing in Afghanistan. Should have left years ago. Nothing to gain, but plenty to lose. The Middle East will continue to sell oil to the highest bidder and support terrorists whether we are there or not.
WeatherWise
WeatherWise 3
I agree with you, Wallace. I've seen enough elections come and go to know that no matter WHO is in office, it's the SOS, different Prez.
blake1023
blake1023 -3
Obama can't even budget White House Tours! Why are these cuts a surprise to anyone?
pabloh36
paul holton -5
are you happy w/the congress and senate you elected. moron
sstuff
sstuff 6
Ahhh . . . “Congress” is comprised of two separate groups: 1) The House of Representatives and 2) the Senate. Therefore, the Senate is only one-half of the Congress.
blake1023
blake1023 1
When Liberals say congress. Thats code for "Republicans only". In this case the House. Even thou the House has passed a budget every year. The president hasn't signed a budget in 4 years!! Maybe if the President signed a budget or even cared about budget we wouldn't have seen these cuts!!!
ALNTower
Joseph Case 1
Contract out the other 250 FAA towers and save at least 250 million per year and you don't compromise safety!!!!!
julianjim
jim garrity 1
To LT Flaten, I'm sure they will have a temp. tower ops. during Air Adventure, the ATC was run mostly by the guys (girls) as volunteers for the fun of doing the ops in yrs. past. But, we have to wait and see?
Hbpshp
More BS from ur govt. Make it painful so folks will vote to spend. They never touch their perks, waste etc.
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
I have a sinking feeling that the grand plan ( both parties) is to get the government in complete control of everything so we just become "subjects", so to speak. That's why spending will not be curbed and the only alternative is to keep raising taxes. We see the model all over Europe. All men are created equal. Right after birth no body is ever equal again. That's freedom. Trying to govern equality is a Fail.
kevcapoz
kevin capozzi 1
Maybe the list would be smaller if it was of towers staying open! SMO? WOW!
julianjim
jim garrity 1
It's a shame that everyone besides us pilots (and flying followers)don't see our comments and issues!
bjohnsonmn
Bradley Johnson 1
KMIC, low opps... KFCM/KANE, Jets, Pits, C150's and C182's... seems like a plan for more incidents to me!
mrbuffalosabre
mrbuffalosabre 1
All the money the US Government sends in foreign aid to countries that hate us and all the other wasteful spending the ODRAMA administration doesn't want to cut could have been spent keeping these towers open.
dmanuel
dmanuel 1
Perhaps I missed something, but I was under the impression it was the Federal Aviation Administration. So why are the cuts coming from their core tasking of 'aviation'?
Iskra
Iskra 0
So you high earning, over achievers FEEL THE PAIN! They are being directed to cut where it hurts the average middle class American the most!
jamesholt202
James Holt 1
As a Retired FAA/USAF Air Traffic Control Manager I feel that this will put a slight more workload on the flying public. I've worked traffic from LRF,LIT,FFO,IAD,Okinawa (Kadana AFB)CRW,HKS and JAN. Pilots will feel the lack of assistance from level 1 VFR towers however the bulk of the work comes from the Approach Control Facilities. IFR flights will feel no little if any effect. I would say prior to taxi file for VFR Flight Following with Center if leaving the Approach airspace. These closures have been planed for many years and should be of no surprise. Most remained open for political reasons. Press On! You Guys (Pilots) will be OK!
jbaugh3
john baugh 1
I fly corporate all over the place. Have to admit, 80% of the airports I have been to that are on that list were really slow or dead when we flew in there.
KennyFlys
Ken Lane 1
I see several in Texas that are simply too slow to ever justify a tower. They opened San Marcos only a year ago. If anything, have a temporary controller if it proves to be a much busier reliever airport to Austin-Bergstrom. I never saw a need at Georgetown or New Bruanfels.

Most of the airports mentioned around Dallas have never been that busy when I've been there. So, I'd have to say there is a lot of overspending in these areas.

And, closing these towers is not going to hurt aviation. Idiot, unsafe pilots hurt aviation, especially general aviation. So, pick your topics wisely to cry about.
vettdvr
James Corkern 1
Guess we really don't need aviation after all. Lets do like Europe and tax General aviation out of existance and force rail service. We dont' mind waiting 2 weeks for an over night package and when someone is ill in your family they can wait 5 to 7 days for you to arrive. Who needs aircraft anyway. After all 100 yrs ago they did fine without them. BTW put the cell phones with the planes when the planes go,, we can go back to telegraph.
MikeMohle
Mike Mohle 1
The average person thinks every airport has a tower, and the Administration will start the scare tactics about less air safety and the lack of towers due to mythical cuts!!!! The cost of all of the Obama vacations (2 of everything, traveling separately from his wife) would pay for all of this and more.
tyketto
Brad Littlejohn 4
Seeing that the POTUS has taken less than 1/4th of the vacations our previous POTUS has taken from first taking office to leaving office, this argument carries no weight. And where were the cuts to those when he was in office?

Pot. Kettle. Black.

either way, again, this was posted at least 2 weeks ago, and there are more than enough comments in those squawks, such as the towers facing closure can show proof that their closure would not be in the nation's best interest, and they could stay open. SMO and HHR are on that list, and those are used for transiting the LAX Class B over the airport. If you think those or any other airport that is next to, under, or adjacent to major airspace that eases congestion near a major airport is going to close, then there is a lot of naivety going on.
MikeMohle
Mike Mohle 2
There are no cuts! Cutting half of the budgeted growth in not a cut. There are many other areas of waste, but this administration has decided to go this route to close towers instead because they are more visible. Must be the hate for all of those "millionaires and billionaires" in their private jets (but failing to mention that 90%+ of all GA aircraft using these airports are piston aircraft operated for business, not jets).
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 9
Good point. BTW, why would they need $500 mil for consultants? Does that mean the people running the FAA don't know how to run it without help?
JetMech24
JetMech24 -1
The administration is not closing the towers, the FAA is closing the towers in retaliation to the adminstration limiting their budget increase.
preacher1
preacher1 5
All the Agencies have been directed by the adminitration to make the cuts visible and painful so that everybody can see it and they can start the blame game all over again. It appears not to be working though as the republicans have stood their ground and BHO is starting to throw out an olive branch or 2, in order to start a little consensus building now. I guess we'll see.
canuck44
canuck44 1
You are wrong about the vacation thing....Bush even gave up golf when troops were deployed. Last year the taxpayer coughed up an estimated $1.4 Billion to support Hussein and his consort including $250,000 for three calligraphers, $100,000 plus for a dog walker and groomer for Bo who, like Mooch, flies separately and huge amounts to support the golf game. These numbers don't include the cost of sending one of the daughters to Mexico with 24 Secret Service guards for spring break or the cost of hookers for the trip to Colombia (at least they had good taste).
chalet
chalet 3
Great, while Bush gave up golf he also at the same time cut the tax rate of his fellow millonaires, and then he embarked on an illegal, immoral and totally unjustified invasion of Iraq costing so far 3 trillion and counting. Also during the Dumb's tenure the national debt grew from 6 to 11 trillion. And I don't want to discuss now an even greater damage to America and Iraq (the number of people who lost their lives).
blake1023
blake1023 1
Don't worry folks! User fees will fix all of our country's problems! hehehe Atleast thats what liberals want us to believe...
MikeMohle
Mike Mohle 3
Yeah. Make those evil "rich people" pay, and watch all of the pilot jobs disappear! More on unemployment and dependence, that is the real goal anyway.
blake1023
blake1023 2
More than just pilots.... Speaker Pelosi thinks unemployment benefits somehow equals stimulus.
richsmit
Richard Smith 1
Let's stick to the facts. 50 percent of all mid-airs occur within 5 miles of an airport. Fact. Of those mid-airs, 30 percent happen on final approach. Fact. I work at a soon to be closed tower in southern California. In 48 years of continuous operation, this airport has NEVER had a mid-air. The uncontrolled airport 8 miles away has had 4 fatals in a dozen years, with one fatality on the ground due to falling debris. Some pilots are trying to do the right thing, the rest are students or idiots. I've seen it, and can't imagine how safety is going to be maintained. Traffic is rising, a new flight school is opening and we handle a lot of foreign language students. Good Luck.
conortodd
conortodd 0
You've got some selection bias going on there, Mr. Smith. It's likely that people who don't fly often enough, but insist on flying occasionally, avoid controlled fields entirely, and therefore only pose a hazard to uncontrolled fields. Therefore, you're not likely to see accidents due to these people (who probably don't know what they're doing or should be doing) at your field. The only relationship between those accidents and whether or not the field is uncontrolled, therefore, would be that the out-of-practice fair-weather flyer would not fly at a controlled field.
The accident statistics bear out this line of reasoning: most GA accidents occur in nice weather during daytime at un-controlled fields.
richsmit
Richard Smith 2
My airport is going to be uncontrolled in three weeks. Feel better about safety, now?
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
Geez!!!! Wait till we talk balanced budget.....Armageddon !!!!
AviatorMom
Barbara Gould 1
I smell a RAT in this deal.
Not only will this clear the skies for Drones, it will backfire, when storms
take out the towers that are left, and the backups are no longer there.

Get ready for major LAWSUITS, when accidents happen, and if this is what this
Administration calls "protecting the people of the U.S.A." then they need to
re-think the oath they took, to ensure "life, Liberty and the persuit of Happiness"

Best thing we can do, is demand that they STOP fiddling around with issues like
Immigrations, and focus on the REAL needs of this Country....JOBS, in order to broaden
the tax base, for the WILD DEBT both these parties have caused the Taxpayers.

Could it be, that the Airlines are losing revenue, and they lobbied, for them to
close the smaller Control towers to force those who fly "Private" to return to Commercial?
Stranger things have happened.

Time to remove all the dead wood, and elect people who are NOT so dysfunctional, that they would sit idly by, and let these things happen. Glad I'm an Independnat!!!
JJ7
JJ Johnson -1
I forgot to add if the FAA needs to cut waste or money how about starting with their Civil Rights and Diversity and EEO boondoggles that piss away millions at resort casinos every year getting drunk and talking bad about anyone who is white or has a penis? Why cut controllers and technicians start with the fat in the FAA Ivory towers.
THRUSTT
THRUSTT 0
Close them all, Towers are for those "pilots" that can't decipher that paragraph in the AIM about communications.
I can't wait for the day when I could say Teterboro traffic, Learjet taking off runway 19, departing south, 1500 ft. direct Bermuda!!!
comicpilot
comicpilot 2
Hey good luck with that when 1000 other acft all wanna leave the NYC metro area and go the same direction as you..... But I guess you figure the airspace is ALL yours, eh? My guess is that people who HATE towered fields are the same bozo's who show up at uncontrolled fields reporting "straight in" for the runway.. .No clue how to report, when to report or how to even enter a traffic pattern....
THRUSTT
THRUSTT 0
Where the hell did I say the airspace is all mine and that I hate towered fields???
Yeah, I go straight in when I'm coming straight in and it isn't busy. I report and operate very well at uncontrolled fields, be it in a jet or light airplane. It's probably people like you that report with a reg. no. instead of type at an uncontrolled field.
I've operated in and out of JFK, LGA, BOS, etc., VFR safely and efficiently in jets.
I don't call up on unicom saying "what's your active," and fly space-shuttle sized patterns.
I know what I'm doing homie...

WALLACE24
WALLACE24 2
He should've stopped with his first sentence....
preacher1
preacher1 1
I kinda think he will come more around to our way of thinking ans he builds time and ratings and gets off that private.lol
preacher1
preacher1 2
I just love it when one of these smart ass know it all's comes in here and spouts off, really showing his ignorance.lol
THRUSTT
THRUSTT 2
Preach on Preacherman!!!
preacher1
preacher1 1
Almost makes me wish I was flying 121 and hopefully get one of them in my cockpit.lol. You notice I said ALMOST.
comicpilot
comicpilot 2
Judging by all of your responses in all the posts on this topic it is clear you three really have nothing better to do than sit on here all day posting.. Funny how you guys went to my profile and think that I keep it updated to all of my flight ratings, experience... I dont have to "show off" on a website here to get my self worth.. Oh and THRUSTT- yeah when I fly into uncontrolled airports in my 172 I report my full callsign, I fly 747 patterns, as slow as possible, report what I had for lunch, how many souls on board, and the names of my grandchildren....I also leave all my strobe lights on outside of the runway zone on the ground at night and stuff too.... Cuz i'm a dumb low time private pilot.. It's cute how the 3 of you gang up on people on these posts too...
THRUSTT
THRUSTT 1
Dude, you're the one that basically referred to me as a bozo. I did not go to your profile, and I only responded to what you commented to me on. Once again, you're putting words in my mouth about the dumb low time pilot...
Instead of attacking me on my initial comment, maybe you should have just commented and read it the way it was presented. All of us know TEB will never be uncontrolled.
comicpilot
comicpilot 1
HUH? Go back and read my last comment.... It is directed at the 3 of you who blasted me for my first response to you..I only directly refered to you after your reply to me about space shuttle patterns and reg #.... Where in my comment above did I ONLY refer to you...?
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
I don't see where I blasted you at all. I do know that when you make provocative statements to someone who flies for a living (basically calling them unprofessional) you are setting yourself up for a terse response.
Cactus732
Cactus732 0
This is a huge deal, take Ormond and New Smyrna Beach, both routinely have at least 6 aircraft in the pattern. It will be extremely dangerous if they are trying to regulate themselves.
AviatorMom
Barbara Gould 2
@James, please don't say that, about Ormond? My Mom lives there, and to tell you the truth, just last week, didn't two Airplanes clip each other WITH an operational Tower?
an Air India, struck a Jet Blue on the taxiway, and everyone is supposed to control themselves? What a joke, for those who think that a Runway, is like a 4-Way stop, and as long as everyone stops, and lets the guy on the right proceed, they'll be safe? Dreamers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqV2qqm_xFM
THRUSTT
THRUSTT 2
I don't think a few aircraft would make it dangerous without a tower, if everyone does what they're supposed to do. But like everything else, that may not happen.
I don't know how it is now, but years ago, the 90's, MMU had about 3 flight schools presenting a large mix of light aircraft and heavy jet activity operating just fine when the tower was closed. I do remember going into OMN back in the early 2000's, rolling through the intersection after landing and a guy taking off on the cross runway chastising me for not holding short of his departure runway. Never mind I was landing on 4000 ft., and the first call he made was to yell at me. I found out later that he was a repeat offender. It takes all kinds...
pabloh36
paul holton -5
it's not obama you idiot it's the congress and senate that you keep voting for. they don't give a shit about you.
preacher1
preacher1 7
I'm afraid I got to disagree there. All these agency heads and cabinet members that are doing the cutting work for OBAMA and he is directing that chorus, only now seeing that the congress is not going to budge, and starting to throw out some olive branches this week, to start talking. He has known this day was coming for a long time and it has been another big game of chicken, except this time, Congress didn't blink.
Iskra
Iskra 3
Preacher gets it.... My AZ and FL congressmen are doing a Great Job... If we didn't have congress we wouldn't have a president we'd have a dictator.... Read the constitution, learn the constitution. Then look up the word FREE
rw812
Michael Smith 3
It's amazing how everyone says their Congressmen are dong great. It's always the ones. Guess what? If this was true then we wouldn't be having the problems we are.

I can state without hesitation that my congress idiot is doing a lousy job.
dicky11
dicky11 2
I got so involved reading this post that I forgot to get my popcorn before I had finished...
preacher1
preacher1 3
It will be interesting. He wants to be King but that is why there are 3 branches of government, each to hold the other in check.
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 4
And all 3 are taking the test. So far nothing above an f. We' ll see.
CPSL
Joe Mama 0
Thank You for a very entertaining read! How about we wait and see!

I'm pulling for the House!!!! :))

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