I think it's mostly attitude, but the price of landing fees and avgas can figure
into it, too.

Dave Reinhart


Maule Driver wrote:

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
online.com...
In retrospect, I was kind of glad this occurred while wearing my selfish
hat. Both TEB and MMU are becoming increasingly unfriendly to we 100LL
burners. Pushing more charter business at CDW would, I imagine, cause the
same thing to occur there. So the lack of the glideslope is, I thought,
good for some of us.

But I just read the article on WAAS and precision GPS approaches in the
current IFR. Now, I wonder...

Once this sort of thing really comes online, how will that impact MacDan's
charter business? If a WAAS-based precision approach is put in at CDW,
won't that do whatever the glideslope would have done for their business?
And might that not cause CDW to become less "spam can" friendly, as has
been occurring with TEB and MMU?

What makes an airport less span can friendly? Tangibles like prices and
possibly policies. Or intangibles like perceived attitudes and ?

I'm not challenging the assertion, just asking.

I flew out of CDW some years ago and have visited on occassion. It has
location. It seems to lack decent runways and facilities for the jet crowd.
Don't know about TEB but MMU never seemed to welcome light GA. When I was
training at CDW, we just didn't go to MMU. I've heard since that they have
discouraging fee practices. After flying in NJ for years I feel like I fell
into aviation heaven down here in NC where it seems every county in the
state has a 5-6,000 foot runway with ILS - or they are currently expanding
to that standard. Some of them are busy, and some just sit there for your
consideration.

I've stopped avoiding busy and/or large airports when they are the most
convenient landing spot. And more often than not, I've found them to be
good light GA travel stops. Not sure I'd want to be based at some of them.
The only tangible factor is 100ll prices.

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