Least Busy Class B Airport?

[gotWXdagain]

but there has been a steady elimination of uncontrolled airspace out west. A lot of places out there were uncontrolled below 14,500 up until just a few years ago, but have recently been lowered to 1,200 AGL.

Richman

Western Montana in early to mid 2014 if I recall right. I did my IOE trips out there when it was uncontrolled up to 14,500, and it made for a talking point because our ops specs don't allow us to be en-route in G airspace. Then six months later everything was controlled down to 1,200'.

 

[Richman]

Yup. The last bastion of IFR in uncontrolled airspace seems to be going away. No flight plan or clearance required....

Richman

 

[arkflyr]

Wow, you guys got me curious and I had to look. I was based in Billings back in 2009-10 flying cargo and we had an ops spec allowing IFR operations in class G.

I attended a workshop at the Bombardier Safety Standdown last fall put on by ZKC with ICT and MCI approach folks. It was mostly about runway excursions and communications but toward the end they started talking about a few observations. First I don't remember the exact numbers but they indicated that collectively their traffic was down close to 50%, or something to that effect. Also when talking about ADS-B coverage they said that the infrastructure people were putting the transmitters on existing towers so they still are seeing a limited coverage gap in remote sectors.

 

[Stinger]

Western Montana in early to mid 2014 if I recall right. I did my IOE trips out there when it was uncontrolled up to 14,500, and it made for a talking point because our ops specs don't allow us to be en-route in G airspace. Then six months later everything was controlled down to 1,200'.

I remember the Class G being there just a couple years ago. It was actually last week that I was looking at the Montana sectional trying to find the Class G airspace again. I was so confused on why I couldn't find any, I started to think that I was reading the sectional wrong. Or that I was remembering the airspace wrong and it never used to be there.
Either way, I feel much better now that I know I wasn't missing anything.
Wonder why the FAA removed it all?

 

[gotWXdagain]

I should correct my earlier post, meant to say eastern Montana. But same still applies.

I remember the Class G being there just a couple years ago. It was actually last week that I was looking at the Montana sectional trying to find the Class G airspace again. I was so confused on why I couldn't find any, I started to think that I was reading the sectional wrong. Or that I was remembering the airspace wrong and it never used to be there.
Either way, I feel much better now that I know I wasn't missing anything.
Wonder why the FAA removed it all?

Nope. Not sure why the FAA removed it all unless it had something to do with Cape Air flying enroute at much lower altitudes from KBIL than their Beechcraft-flying predecessors?