Hi Andrew,

As others have said, I wouldn't worry too much about a squeeze at CDW if
they're not going to increase the length of 4/22. When will they be
finished paving that thing anyway? Besides, it doesn't look like they have
much room to grow hangars unless they wipe out the middle tiedown area.

If anything, the smaller airports in the area are more likely to be
affected, e.g. N07. For example, the NDB or GPS 01 approach at N07 has been
NOTAM'd out for several months now. The NDB (in this case MOREE) is working
fine (you get vectors to it southbound when departing IFR) but even if it
wasn't, that shouldn't be a reason to NOTAM out the GPS. The rumor is that
ATC just doesn't want to deal with it since the approach starts over MOREE
which happens to be the MM for MMU 23. Not that any of the approaches to
N07 are terribly useful (the MDA is pattern altitude), but I expect the
southbound approaches will disappear altogether.

cheers,
mark

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
online.com...
I fly primarily out of CDW in Northern NJ. Although I'm not "plugged in"
with the various machinations at the airport, there's some trickle down.
Accuracy, of course, is completely suspect. So have a large grain of salt
at the ready.

What I "heard" was that Mac Dan had been hoping for a runway extension and
the addition of a glideslope to the existing localizer. This would have
improved their charter business somehow (although I'm not familiar with
the
relevant FAR parts so I don't know how).

Unfortunately for them, the current work on 4/22 includes neither
lengthening nor ILS. The best approach will remain a localizer.

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?

I find myself wondering if WAAS is going to end up a Bad Thing for at
least
some of us.

Anyone with information or opinions on this subject? I'd love to know,
for
example, what difference the glideslope would made to the charter
business,
and if that same difference occurs with a precision GPS approach.

- Andrew