CNN: Tower Closures

As of 2pm this afternoon the Airport Authority at MQY got notice that the tower would remain open. Great news, MQY is a very busy Class D between Corporate operations and training, plus half of the airspace lies under the Nashville shelf.
 
kellwolf said:
Yeah, but so do State College and Pellston. No problems flying a CRJ into those two uncontrolled. The only FL one that has me scratching my head is Boca, but I don't know how busy it is. I know it's a big retirement community, so I ASSUME it's fairly busy. I might be wrong. The rest kinda make sense. Tupelo, MS is a ghost town even when it HAD a decent amount of airline traffic. Delta's more or less killed it, though. Olive Branch, MS is a big reliever airport for Memphis, so we'll see how that goes.
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Delta had killed TUP. Loads are actually getting better as time goes forward. With the new runway expansion, the corporate traffic is picking up and the military comes up there and ties up the approaches for hours at a time.

TUP is nothing like the ghost town that GLH is on most days. We were the only airplane operating all day today.

With OLV, it sits just south of the final for 27 in MEM. It will reopen real quick when somebody blasts off right into the path of a FedEx MD-11 :)
 
ctab5060X said:
Delta had killed TUP. Loads are actually getting better as time goes forward. With the new runway expansion, the corporate traffic is picking up and the military comes up there and ties up the approaches for hours at a time.

TUP is nothing like the ghost town that GLH is on most days. We were the only airplane operating all day today.

With OLV, it sits just south of the final for 27 in MEM. It will reopen real quick when somebody blasts off right into the path of a FedEx MD-11 :)
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used to happen all the time back in '05 when they started building that tower. I was working on my PPL then, I think the tower finally opened at the end of '06.
 
Pilotforhire587 said:
used to happen all the time back in '05 when they started building that tower. I was working on my PPL then, I think the tower finally opened at the end of '06.
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Just goes to prove with all of this that the FAA really doesn't care.

I bet when someone busts through some busy airspace and causes havoc, they will crucify the pilot when they could have prevented the entire situation.
 
Boca's tower was built because of a mid-air between a Lear and an Extra. It can be busy there but it was busy for YEARS prior to getting a tower.
 
MQAAord said:
JVL, DBQ, and OSH?! Seriously they want to close OSH!? I hope the FAA is planning on making an exemption to that during the airshow. You know, when it becomes the busiest airport in the WORLD for a few days!

Shocked to see DPA on that list, too.
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Doesn't the Air Boss handheld tower anyway during the air show? Other then that always seems dead the few times I've been there.
 
Boca's staying open, according to the "Contract Towers Remaining Open" after appeals list. I have a feeling it will get to the third week and 6th day of the "Four week phase out" and a bill will miraculously pass.
 
rd757 said:
Boca's staying open, according to the "Contract Towers Remaining Open" after appeals list. I have a feeling it will get to the third week and 6th day of the "Four week phase out" and a bill will miraculously pass.
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Here's hoping.

The furloughs alone through the summer will cripple air travel in the United States, and have massive effects on the economy globally.

AND TO MY OVERTIME... so Barack, get on it big fella.
 
GKY and GPM remaining open citing national security reasons. Being under the DFW finals as well as stupid busy during football games I'd say good call.
 
I like how MDH (6th busiest airport in IL) is on the list to close but MWA (pretty sure it s the least busy towered airport in IL) is staying open because of the handful of Cape 402s coming and going throughout the day. If this really happens, my job is going to get way more 'fun' and I look forward to watching our instructors and students fist-fight on the ramp after they cut each other off or something.
 
That recent list is MUCH better. I don't see a single bay area airport on the list! GKY, FWS and GPM are gone... MER didn't need a tower anyway, except for the chinese students. The list I saw before had LVK, SQL, and a couple others listed that -really- shouldn't have been considered. Granted, they may have just shifted to axing the contract towers only, and I don't know if the airports in question are contract towers.. but they were on the first draft I saw of the "closable control towers"...

Not that I -support- this at all, mind you, but it's at least a much more realistic list.

~Fox
 
mikecweb said:
Boca's tower was built because of a mid-air between a Lear and an Extra. It can be busy there but it was busy for YEARS prior to getting a tower.
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Yup, John Lillberg was in that Extra, for the record he wasn't maneuvering (aerobatics) during the collision either.
 
Can anyone speak as to how the sudden influx of ATC personnel will affect people entering the field and the outlook for the next couple of years?

Also, maybe I missed it, but is this just until the end of the FY?
 
atracnitrix said:
Can anyone speak as to how the sudden influx of ATC personnel will affect people entering the field and the outlook for the next couple of years?

Also, maybe I missed it, but is this just until the end of the FY?
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The sequester actually ramps up to about 8% for the next few fiscal years after this one. The manner in which the FAA responds to that has yet to be stated.

The next couple years will not be an easy time to break into ATC. Classes at MMAC are cancelled UFN.
 
This will be fixed quickly and all these towers reopened once the delays start rolling in when the Center and TRACON Controllers start getting furloughed for a day a pay period or whatever it is...
 
SurferLucas said:
SUN is going to be a fun one going into/out of...
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No kidding! If this isn't fixed by the Allen and Co. Confrence in July, it's going to get craaaazzzyyy! The only time I have had to hold in CAVU weather was during a an Allen and Co. a few years ago. There wasn't enough space on the ramp for any more airplanes. We even had our slot time and every thing. Once we did get on the ground, getting back out was a nightmare. It was at least an hour and a half before we could even start engines and another hour before we departed. Also with it being a one way in, opposite direction departure airport, it could get sporty.
 
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