NATCA Going Down in Flames

Grand Prairie is a 45 minute drive for me.
Arlington can be an hour on bad days.
Mesquite, easily and hour and a half (plus, you'll get shot on the way), and
Lancaster? Over two hours to get to Lancaster.

45 minutes is not bad at all. I drove an hour each way to TEB and CDW
when I was flying out of New York. Plus I had to cross the Washington
Bridge (though I had the advantage of buying cheap gas in NJ)

Do you actually fly out of DFW? In a spam can? How long is it from
engine start to takeoff? From touchdown to engine stop? The hobbs
meter is running all that time; at the outlying airports I bet taxi time
is much less, and the hobbs meter doesn't run while you're driving to
the airport.

Jose
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Jose wrote:
Grand Prairie is a 45 minute drive for me.
Arlington can be an hour on bad days. Mesquite, easily and hour and a
half (plus, you'll get shot on the way), and
Lancaster? Over two hours to get to Lancaster.

45 minutes is not bad at all.

No, it's not terrible if you're driving 50 miles. If you're driving 10,
which is about the distance to Grand Prairie, it's pretty bad.

Do you actually fly out of DFW?

Nope, but I work there. Was just using it as a point of reference, it's
the closest airport to me.

Do you actually fly out of DFW?


Nope, but I work there.

So, where do you fly out of now? How long does it take to get there?
To taxi?

Jose
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Jose wrote:
Do you actually fly out of DFW?


Nope, but I work there.

So, where do you fly out of now? How long does it take to get there? To
taxi?

Jose

Fly out of ADS. Drive is about twenty minutes. Taxi...well, with one
runway and mostly jet traffic, taxi is really quick.

Fly out of ADS. Drive is about twenty minutes. Taxi...well, with one runway and mostly jet traffic, taxi is really quick.

Just north of ADS is F69. It's a nontowered airport in the ADS class D.
I bet there's some sort of agreement that lets poeple fly out of F69
without bothering the tower. It might be worth looking into. If you
can get out of F69 without talking to ADS tower, you are under the 3000
foot ring of the class B. Say under 3000 feet and you can toss the
radio out the window.

I bet you save a lot of hobbs time too.

Jose
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Jose wrote:
Fly out of ADS. Drive is about twenty minutes. Taxi...well, with one
runway and mostly jet traffic, taxi is really quick.

Just north of ADS is F69.

Dallas Air Park is a private neighborhood, they do not have planes for rent.

Emily wrote:
Jose wrote:
Fly out of ADS. Drive is about twenty minutes. Taxi...well, with
one runway and mostly jet traffic, taxi is really quick.

Just north of ADS is F69.

Dallas Air Park is a private neighborhood, they do not have planes for
rent.

Can someone remind me of what issue we are trying to solve in this
thread? Emily, are you actually looking for a non-controlled field in
the Dallas/Ft. Worth area that has rentals? And that is within your
restrictive criteria of driving times from near KDFW? And what are the
other criteria? And are you really looking for a solution or just trying
to make some type of point?

"Jose" wrote in message
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Just north of ADS is F69. It's a nontowered airport in the ADS class D.
I bet there's some sort of agreement that lets poeple fly out of F69
without bothering the tower. It might be worth looking into. If you
can get out of F69 without talking to ADS tower, you are under the 3000
foot ring of the class B. Say under 3000 feet and you can toss the
radio out the window.

I bet you save a lot of hobbs time too.

I got my PPL out of ADS (or at least I took my *second* checkride from a
flight school there)... I don't remember there being a lot of delay added to
the flight because of there being a tower there... You didn't have to talk
to DFW approach, only give the ADS tower a call a few miles out... Best I
remember, the reply was always something like, "Report downwind Rwy xxx"...
Then again, that was probably somewhere around 1993 or 1994, so things might
have changed a bit since then...