On May 16, 7:55 am, Jay Honeck wrote:

This same thing happened to us last fall, when the city FINALLY (after
10 years of complaining) repaved the taxiways around our hangars. But
we were only "on the street" for about 2 weeks. What the heck are
they doing for two months?


Our airport just finished resurfacing every square inch of pavement
(runways, taxiways and all ramps). It took about 5 weeks for the
entire project. There wasn't much inconvenience because they
orchestrated a well organized ballet of aircraft around the ramp.
They divided the ramp into several segments and arranged for the
plane owners on ramps that were about to be paved, to move to the most
recently paved ramp area. With about 500 planes on the field, that
was quite a trick, but everything ran like clockwork. Plane owners
who couldn't or wouldn't move had their planes moved for them, for the
reasonable fee of $100, round trip. Hangar residents were only
trapped for about 4 days, if they han't relocated ahead of time.

I had my doubts about the whole thing, but it worked out pretty
well. The advance planning I witnessed at my local aiport was far
superior to that of a certain FSS contractor that I know of.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)