Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

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About 40 years worth, all at the same airport, if you are referring to
CCB.


Just as an airport manager? Nothing that might qualify him to create a
proper procedure?

He started as a kid being a gopher for the airport owner, founder, and
builder and worked his way up.

Everyone has to start somewhere.

Since it is a privately owned airport, I would imagine he has to pass
major decisions past the owners, who also have decades of experience
and have been around since shortly after the first dirt was moved to
build the runway, but since I'm not part of the airport management
I can't say for sure.

The towers at the adjacent class D and class C airports are also
expecting pilots to follow the local VFR procedure.

The class C tower is expecting departing traffic that will transition
their airspace to be departing following the local procedure.

Arriving traffic that transitions the class C will be vectored to
the start of the local arrival procedure and nowhere else.

For traffic between the class D, the class D tower expects arriving
traffic to be coming from the local departure area and vectors
departing traffic towards the local arrival area.

So, to sum it up, we have a local VFR procedure that has been in
existance for decades, has had no safety issues, has been willingly
followed by thousands of pilots without complaint, and is implicitly
endorsed by the actions of ATC at two towers.

Sounds OK to me and I think I will continue to follow the procedures.

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Jim Pennino

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