Bob Gardner wrote:

150 went straight into an empty school

That's going to cost us.

Anyone who has driven/flown into the sun
knows that "unlimited visibility" shrinks down to zero under those
conditions.

Tower-controlled airport, BTW. A contract tower, not an FAA tower.

I hear complaints about the tower at my "home" airport, and I've made a few
of them myself. But I seem to recall once when they shifted the active to
permit us to avoid that problem as much as possible.

- Andrew