Busiest Non-towered
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Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
Hahahaha I only went there once but that was the same place that I thought of immediately.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
For the airline world, State College/University Park Airport (SCE/UNV). 4 different airlines served it back in 2007-2011 when I flew there. It now has a tower and is Class D.
skatergeek
Beet Farmer
In the 2004-2010 time frame CGZ. One of the only airports in the valley with an ILS and about 7-8 big flight schools. Not uncommon to be in the stack at TFD at 8000 lol
Hammertime
Well-Known Member
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
It got especially fun when the China air guys came up from Ryan and took over the pattern without talking to anybody.
Lawman
Well-Known Member
Erbil.....
I don’t know what the problem is. They’ve already got the tower built and all the radio frequencies Iike any normal Class C airport....
Did they not reactivate the tower after the base closed, or just waited awhile?
RYN has been mostly dead ever since they closed shop.
CGZ is even busy at 0100, as I go do work there at those hours.
The other thing CGZ could use is some CFR protection capability, even thought it's not required for that airport.
IGM and MZJ are a couple of others for non-towered, not for busy-ness, but for having normal jet and heavy-jet operations ongoing with no tower, and minimal CFR protection (in comparison to aircraft size; but also not required due to no actual airline service occurring).
gotWXdagain
Polished Member
TPL during the Harvey relief effort.
Nick
Well-Known Member
I'm not sure how soon the field became a civilian airport after the base closing in 1995, but when I was CFI'ing there in 2006 there was no tower. It needed one and it did become class D a year or two later.
tcco94
Future GTA VI Pilot
KCGZ and the TFD VOR (Stanfield VOR)
The stack has good procedures but a lot of weekend warriors come blazing in not knowing those procedures or airport activity at all. Albuquerque Center doesn't even want to deal with the traffic over that VOR, they practically refuse. On an IFR flight plan they let you go at 7,000 feet over the FAF which is like 3,500 feet high (if I remember correctly) and just hope you know the stack procedures.
I mean, it's legal VFR out there so....
I'd say about half my instructing hours were spent in the stack at CGZ. Wasn't uncommon for about 4-5 of my buddies to be in the stack working at 2am. Mesquite call signs
The stack has good procedures but a lot of weekend warriors come blazing in not knowing those procedures or airport activity at all. Albuquerque Center doesn't even want to deal with the traffic over that VOR, they practically refuse. On an IFR flight plan they let you go at 7,000 feet over the FAF which is like 3,500 feet high (if I remember correctly) and just hope you know the stack procedures.
I mean, it's legal VFR out there so....
I'd say about half my instructing hours were spent in the stack at CGZ. Wasn't uncommon for about 4-5 of my buddies to be in the stack working at 2am. Mesquite call signs
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RetiredATLATC
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Strange how they're ever busy as they only allow us one in, one out. The WORST, and most dense, controllers I've ever had to deal with. Compound that with Iraqi Air pilots who will fight and argue on the frequency with controllers (even had one threaten one of my trainees on frequency that, "if he wasn't allowed to be number one in sequence (he was 60km behind the actual number one) he knew what tribe the controller belonged to and would have him taken care of".
Not uncommon to have 5 holding over GAWAN waiting for the landing call that will undoubtedly never come.
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