Funny Story on the old Air Port Traffic Area

"Danny Deger" wrote in message
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My understanding now is there is no longer this subtle distintion between
Class D and Class E going to the ground. The area around a controlled
airport is Class D and is marked with a dashed blue line around the
airport. No more chance of class D airspace that is "marked" only because
the airport is blue.

Danny Deger

It may not always be marked, when our local airport first went to "contract
tower" from "no tower", it was CLASS D, and it was painted blue on the
charts, but the CLASS D dashed blue line was not printed on the charts with
no altitude markings. It took two chart revisions to catch up.

The only way to tell was NOTAMS. The question to ask the new "long waiting
time" Lockheed FSS is... if I am filed into a different but nearby airport,
are you going to give me the airspace NOTAM for the new class D at the
airport I am not flying into?

BT