Pilot's Political Orientation

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airport. And, it certainly isn't true for instrument approach
procedures
established for airports that have no commercial traffic (which is
many,
many
more instrument approach procedures than those established for
airports
with
mostly, or some, commercial operations.

How many? have you counted them?

All you have to do is flip through the NACO books and it becomes quite
apparent. The facts are self-evident. If you want a precise count, I'll
let
you do that.

yeah, it's quite evident that the airports that serve 135, 121,
and commercial traffic have more approaches than the airports that
don't. All you have to do is look. try it. How many approaches
at KBOS, KLGA, KLWM, KBED, KBUF, etc etc vs those airports that
used to have identifiers like 5B6?



The last I recall, in the now-five-year-old program for 500 GPS
approaches a
year, some 70-80% of those were established (and are being established)
for
airports that have no commercial operations except perhaps for a very
infrequent Part 135 arrival.

you might want to check those figures.

Also, you might be interested most of the GPS approaches were overlays
(meaning all the obstruction clearance work was already done). Very
few GPS approaches were defined for airports that didn't previously
have any approach, and nothing close to that 70-80% you claim.

--
Bob Noel

Bob Noel wrote:

Also, you might be interested most of the GPS approaches were overlays

(meaning all the obstruction clearance work was already done). Very
few GPS approaches were defined for airports that didn't previously
have any approach, and nothing close to that 70-80% you claim.

--
Bob Noel

Baloney. At this stage of the program many, many airports that did not
previously have an IAP now have at least one RNAV (GPS) IAP. And, there are
many more that had perhaps one ground-based IAP and now have at least one
additional RNAV (GPS) IAP.

As to the BOS, LAX, JFKs, etc, how many IAPs do those airports represent? Last
time I checked there were over 10,000 IAPs in the U.S. No doubt those major
Part 139 airports take a huge amount of resources; then again the airline
passenger pays through the nose to support those facilities.