Jay Honeck wrote:


Class D is there because (at some point) your Senator wanted a control
tower in his district.


Hi Jay,

Is that always the case? Or even usually? For example, I fly out of Hanscom
and Beverly fields in Massachusetts. Beverly is pretty small - couple of
5000+ foot runways. Still, we get pax carrying planes in and out of there -
small jets, 10-20 pax prop planes etc. So it's commercial. And therefore
need to operate in IMC, and therefore you need a tower, no?

Hanscom - MUCH busier, is also class D and has bigger pax jets. So it, too,
need to have IMC.

So could the existence of passenger service be a reason there are Class D's
around?

Just a thought,

Gregg