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BobDDuck · May 15th, 2007, 20:49

Tiger, I'm not sure what you fly, but from the point of view of somebody coming into an uncontrolled field doing 200 knots in the pattern and trying to see and avoid and HOPE that everybody else is talking, I certainly find it much safer to have a tower. Sure, there are times were it gets congested because tower is sorting stuff out, but I would rather deal with that then nothing.

You are comparing Yeager with Fredrick and while they may have close to the same number of ops a day, the majority of FDK's are GA while CRW has a whole lot of commercial and military traffic.

May 15th, 2007, 20:49	#5
BobDDuck Old Skool Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Left Seat Posts: 5,482	Re: FAA Forced to close Charleston, W.VA Tower... Tiger, I'm not sure what you fly, but from the point of view of somebody coming into an uncontrolled field doing 200 knots in the pattern and trying to see and avoid and HOPE that everybody else is talking, I certainly find it much safer to have a tower. Sure, there are times were it gets congested because tower is sorting stuff out, but I would rather deal with that then nothing. You are comparing Yeager with Fredrick and while they may have close to the same number of ops a day, the majority of FDK's are GA while CRW has a whole lot of commercial and military traffic. __________________ TBJC08 The Gear Monkey The Gear Monkey Store