Questions on landing at a towered airport

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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To answer your concern about landing at a Class C airport, in the
Midwest Class D doesn't usually have radar control. This means that

You know I always thought so to, but out here in CT, I know that HFD Class D
(Hartford-Brainard) must have radar. Cause the controller tells me to ident
now and then -- seems to be that they must have radar, eh? Also, the BDL
approach controllers often hand me off to HFD tower with a non-1200 squawk
code. Seems that the Sectional charts have a bold circled "R" for those
Class D airports that have radar (?) -- HFD does not have that "R", but the
things i mentioned above sure hint towards having some kind of radar
visibility.

That said, they've always given me "report xxxx" position report request
when inbound, never got vectors from them....
T

Tman wrote:


That said, they've always given me "report xxxx" position report request
when inbound, never got vectors from them....

They have a radar to refer to. They are not radar controllers. Pretty
much any class D near a larger class C or B airport will have a scope in
the cab. Get away from a larger radar facility and there's no radar for
that smaller airport to have in the first place. And some airports
bought their own radar and had it added to the system. That's happened
here in Montana.

They have a radar to refer to. They are not radar controllers. Pretty
much any class D near a larger class C or B airport will have a scope in
the cab. Get away from a larger radar facility and there's no radar for
that smaller airport to have in the first place. And some airports
bought their own radar and had it added to the system. That's happened
here in Montana.

An aside: Lake Lawn Lodge (in Wisconsin) actually had their own radar
on the roof of their FBO. It looked like a boat radar (and I never
saw it in operation -- by the time I started flying in there, they
were on their way out of business), and I don't know what they could
actually SEE with it -- but it's the only uncontrolled field I've ever
seen with radar!
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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Jay Honeck wrote:
They have a radar to refer to. They are not radar controllers.
Pretty much any class D near a larger class C or B airport will have
a scope in the cab. Get away from a larger radar facility and
there's no radar for that smaller airport to have in the first
place. And some airports bought their own radar and had it added to
the system. That's happened here in Montana.

An aside: Lake Lawn Lodge (in Wisconsin) actually had their own radar
on the roof of their FBO. It looked like a boat radar (and I never
saw it in operation -- by the time I started flying in there, they
were on their way out of business), and I don't know what they could
actually SEE with it -- but it's the only uncontrolled field I've ever
seen with radar!

It was probably weather radar. And it was probably a marine radar.

"Tman" N/A wrote in message
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You know I always thought so to, but out here in CT, I know that HFD Class
D
(Hartford-Brainard) must have radar.

2 Miles north and you're inside Bradley's 10 mile ring. Bradley has radar.