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September 5th 03, 12:32 AM
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I like my privatized airport :)
I have been learning to fly and hanging out at KLNS (Lancaster PA) for
years, and it has been a privatized airport tower ever since i've known about it. Nicest controllers, safe airport and friendly skies. They're not any more incompetant than a "guvenment" controller and most certainly they enjoy aviation and the lifestyle just as much as anyone else could! Heck they even volunteer to the ground schools and give tours when the FAA allows! Just thought i'd throw that in  -- -byron // Totalsimulation.com // Flight Sim Resources! 
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September 5th 03, 12:40 AM
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"Byron Miller" wrote:
I have been learning to fly and hanging out at KLNS (Lancaster PA) for years, and it has been a privatized airport tower ever since i've known about it. I'm based at THV (York) so I get in and out of LNS quite a bit. The controllers there are indeed very helpful, but I never realized it was a contract tower. You live and learn, I guess. How would one go about confirming whether another airport was a contract tower or not, I wonder? -- Mike Granby, PP-ASEL,IA Warrior N44578 http://www.mikeg.net/plane
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September 5th 03, 01:30 AM
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"Mike Granby" writes:
"Byron Miller" wrote: I have been learning to fly and hanging out at KLNS (Lancaster PA) for years, and it has been a privatized airport tower ever since i've known about it. I'm based at THV (York) so I get in and out of LNS quite a bit. The controllers there are indeed very helpful, but I never realized it was a contract tower. You live and learn, I guess. How would one go about confirming whether another airport was a contract tower or not, I wonder? Call then on the landline and ask? Trenton-Mercer, NJ (KTTN) is a contract tower, AFAIR. When I was working on my instruments at PNE, TTN was one of the places to go for low approaches. I would have had no way of knowing that tower was any different from others if my instructor didn't tell me. Ari.
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#4
September 5th 03, 01:35 AM
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"Byron Miller" wrote in message ... I have been learning to fly and hanging out at KLNS (Lancaster PA) for years, and it has been a privatized airport tower ever since i've known about it. Nicest controllers, safe airport and friendly skies. They're not any more incompetant than a "guvenment" controller and most certainly they enjoy aviation and the lifestyle just as much as anyone else could! Heck they even volunteer to the ground schools and give tours when the FAA allows! Just thought i'd throw that in For much the same basis, I prefer UPS and FedEx to the Post Office...
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September 5th 03, 01:36 AM
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"Mike Granby" wrote in message ... "Byron Miller" wrote: I have been learning to fly and hanging out at KLNS (Lancaster PA) for years, and it has been a privatized airport tower ever since i've known about it. I'm based at THV (York) so I get in and out of LNS quite a bit. The controllers there are indeed very helpful, but I never realized it was a contract tower. You live and learn, I guess. How would one go about confirming whether another airport was a contract tower or not, I wonder? On the sectional or other chart it says "NFCT" for Non-Federal Control Tower.
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September 5th 03, 02:06 AM
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"Mike Granby" wrote in message ... How would one go about confirming whether another airport was a contract tower or not, I wonder? They're designated FCT right after the tower frequency in the A/FD, FAA Contract Tower.
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September 5th 03, 02:13 AM
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:
They're designated FCT right after the tower frequency in the A/FD, FAA Contract Tower. So they're not contract, then? I wonder what lead the OP to think they were? -- Mike Granby, PP-ASEL,IA Warrior N44578 http://www.mikeg.net/plane
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#8
September 5th 03, 02:18 AM
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"Maule Driver" wrote in message m... I'm thinking that a NFCT is either an FAA tower that has been 'outsourced' The "NF" in NFCT means non-federal, the "F" in FAA means federal. Nuff said.
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September 5th 03, 02:19 AM
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"Mike Granby" wrote in message ... So they're not contract, then? An FAA Contract Tower is a contract tower.
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#10
September 5th 03, 02:35 AM
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"Byron Miller" wrote in message ... Nicest controllers, safe airport and friendly skies. They're not any more incompetant than a "guvenment" controller and most certainly they enjoy aviation and the lifestyle just as much as anyone else could! Well this may be just coincidence and in any event when n=2 not all that much can be concluded, but for what it is worth I have had two experiences when controllers gave me instructions while low altitude in IMC which could have resulted in a controlled flight into terrain accident, and both situations occurred at a non-towered field -- once at Morgantown WV KMGW and once at Johnstown PA KJST. -- Richard Kaplan, CFII www.flyimc.com
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