another airport that may go down (BDR)

Exactly... the town of Stratford has such a bug up it's butt about not
getting taxes on the airport acreage that they think that any excuse to
put it on the tax rolls is ok. I can't imagine me doing much flying if
BDR closed down. Part of the reason I fly is getting from one place to
another quickly. my drive to the airport is 5 minutes, preflight is 20
and I can be in the air in about 30-45 mins. My next closest airport is
HVN which is on the other side of a horrible bridge trafficwise. Or
HPN which is very expensive or OXC which is just plain out of the way.

I'm thinking that this proposal was floated without any real
investigation, after all who knows anything about this Urban Land
Institute anyway or what their agenda is. I'm guessing it will all blow
over in due course once the real story comes out and the real costs
involved to do what they propose are known.

Robert

Denny wrote:

Yes, but what they sow is poison that affects all of GA... The demise
of Bridgeport is sad... When I was a young whippersnapper, a
Bridgeport mill or lathe was the Rolls Royce of machinery...
Here in Michigan the tax and regulation climate is becoming
semi-friendly to business (the biased pro-union / anti- employer laws
are not, however)... What is hysterically funny (to me) is that our
elected Democrat Governor has to swallow hard almost every day and
propose further cuts in state pork for the willfully unemployed and the
socialism fanatics, and is now even proposing a reduction in the Single
Business Tax (just saying those three words makes my blood pressure go
up, being a business that gets hosed by this tax)... For which I will
give her endless credit for using common sense over her political
religion...

Denny

Looking on a most current section the "H" is clearly OUTSIDE the Class
D. Tick marks go around the "H". So how is KJSD its own class D, if
it doesn't show it on the sectional??

OK, I just replooked at the sectional. There is a class D for KJSD,
but it is not easy to spot on the sectional and abuts the class for
BDR. That's tough!
BDR is not a great field, and the FBO's are not very friendly.

BDR is a good little airport. There are only 2 FBO's now, 3-wing and
Atlantic Aviation. 3-wing I don't have any dealings with but I've
heard they are expensive. Atlantic caters more to the netjets types but
I've had very good service from them for my 100LL orders.

There are several approaches to the airport, the tower is open from
6:30am to 10pm and the AFSS is not far from the terminal building if you
want a walk up briefing.

I'd hate to see that area used for anything BUT an airport.

I live in the noise abatement area and from time to time people do fly
directly over the houses which they are told not to do and do it anyway.

The majority of my neighbors don't like the airplane noise but I think
it has more to do with the Gulfstream III's taking off at 5:30am and
rattling windows than the quiet drone of the 4 cylinder lycoming doing
touch and goes.

Those neighbors of mine that aren't completely closed minded about the
airport I take flying with me and make converts out of them. There are
an awful lot of neighbors though and so little time.

Robert

569 wrote:

OK, I just replooked at the sectional. There is a class D for KJSD,
but it is not easy to spot on the sectional and abuts the class for
BDR. That's tough!
BDR is not a great field, and the FBO's are not very friendly.

Have you ever asked them if they don't like airplane noise, why
did they move next to an airport? I wouldn't like a train going past
my house all day....so I don't live next to train tracks. It's kind of
maddening when people move next to an airport and then are
annoyed by the airplane noise and try to close the airport..



"Robert Chambers" wrote in message
...
BDR is a good little airport. There are only 2 FBO's now, 3-wing and
Atlantic Aviation. 3-wing I don't have any dealings with but I've heard
they are expensive. Atlantic caters more to the netjets types but I've
had very good service from them for my 100LL orders.

There are several approaches to the airport, the tower is open from 6:30am
to 10pm and the AFSS is not far from the terminal building if you want a
walk up briefing.

I'd hate to see that area used for anything BUT an airport.

I live in the noise abatement area and from time to time people do fly
directly over the houses which they are told not to do and do it anyway.

The majority of my neighbors don't like the airplane noise but I think it
has more to do with the Gulfstream III's taking off at 5:30am and rattling
windows than the quiet drone of the 4 cylinder lycoming doing touch and
goes.

Those neighbors of mine that aren't completely closed minded about the
airport I take flying with me and make converts out of them. There are an
awful lot of neighbors though and so little time.

Robert

569 wrote:

OK, I just replooked at the sectional. There is a class D for KJSD,
but it is not easy to spot on the sectional and abuts the class for
BDR. That's tough!
BDR is not a great field, and the FBO's are not very friendly.

That sort of logic is lost on them. The airport has been there since
before the houses were built. That doesn't stop people moving into the
neighborhood and then complaining. I can see their point about the
G-III's that take off at 5:30am, that's just rude but the majority of
aircraft going in are single engine props, and even a lot of the
biz-jets are not all that noisy.

I hope and suspect that it will all blow over once the real costs of
this lame proposal are worked out.

Robert

Peter MacPherson wrote:

Have you ever asked them if they don't like airplane noise, why
did they move next to an airport? I wouldn't like a train going past
my house all day....so I don't live next to train tracks. It's kind of
maddening when people move next to an airport and then are
annoyed by the airplane noise and try to close the airport..



"Robert Chambers" wrote in message
...

BDR is a good little airport. There are only 2 FBO's now, 3-wing and
Atlantic Aviation. 3-wing I don't have any dealings with but I've heard
they are expensive. Atlantic caters more to the netjets types but I've
had very good service from them for my 100LL orders.

There are several approaches to the airport, the tower is open from 6:30am
to 10pm and the AFSS is not far from the terminal building if you want a
walk up briefing.

I'd hate to see that area used for anything BUT an airport.

I live in the noise abatement area and from time to time people do fly
directly over the houses which they are told not to do and do it anyway.

The majority of my neighbors don't like the airplane noise but I think it
has more to do with the Gulfstream III's taking off at 5:30am and rattling
windows than the quiet drone of the 4 cylinder lycoming doing touch and
goes.

Those neighbors of mine that aren't completely closed minded about the
airport I take flying with me and make converts out of them. There are an
awful lot of neighbors though and so little time.

Robert

569 wrote:


OK, I just replooked at the sectional. There is a class D for KJSD,
but it is not easy to spot on the sectional and abuts the class for
BDR. That's tough!
BDR is not a great field, and the FBO's are not very friendly.

"569" wrote in message
ups.com...
OK, I just replooked at the sectional. There is a class D for KJSD,
but it is not easy to spot on the sectional and abuts the class for
BDR. That's tough!

Yup, the sectional chart is pretty cluttered there. The JSD Class D is much
more conspicuous on the NY TAC.

--Gary