Airport comments for North America
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This is where I learned to fly
I did all my training from first flight through commercial at Sugar Valley. It is a great airport. The narrow (24ft) runway is different for most pilots and the 60 foot trees just off the arrival end of 20 are interesting for most pilots. If anyone wants to buy an airport, it is for sale.
Great little strip
This is a private strip but I landed there several times while training out of Sugar Valley. It is neat how the north west end opens onto the Yadkin River.
Ice Runway
This is an ice runway that is in operation from Jan to Apr only. Check NOTAM for runway condition.
(I think this is the only ice runway in the CFS!)
Tower
I fly traffic survey through Ft Belvoir everyday and the controllers in the tower are top-notch professionals who do a great job inspite of the often congested airspace they watch. Friendly and helpful, Davison controllers are the best in the ADIZ.
re: Ottawa's mystery airport
Hi everyone,
I was curious to see if my website was on the web yet so I did a research on Pontiac Airpark and found your site. I guess I was more surprise to find your post than David earing about an airport East of Arnprior. You are right there is and airport (airpark) 10 miles north-east of Arnprior. The east-west runway will be 3400 feet long with asphalt and lights. 59 residential lots are for sale and it is on the Ottawa river. Floats, wheels and skis are welcome. Check my website in a few days. André. 819-568-2359.
Hard airport to love
This is a hard airport to love, which is sad, since it serves one of North America's nicest cities. Everything seems to be badly organized: when you transfer from an international flight to a domestic one, you have to exit and reenter security, which is non-trivial when you might have to line up for an hour. In customs, they keep opening and reopening dividers to make new lines, so people who've just gotten off a plane might be let through ahead of people who have been waiting 20 minutes. The whole airport seems a bit dingy and run-down, there's not much good food (in *Montreal's* airport!!!), and nothing's particularly well organized.
I wouldn't use YUL as a connector airport if I had the choice, but if you're visiting Montreal itself, it's worth putting up with the hassle to visit such a great city. If you're coming from Toronto, though, take the train instead.
re: Airport OK; getting to it, not so much
Actually, one problem with the airport was very long security lines for the C and D gates. That might have been just because it was a Saturday around spring break, but make sure you arrive very early for your flight -- don't assume you'll be through security in 10 or 20 minutes.
Airport OK; getting to it, not so much
Just flew through MIA with my family for a spring break trip. The airport itself is fine, but getting to it, not so much. Unlike every other major city I've visited, Miami barely bothers to put any signs on the freeways and roads telling you how to get to the airport (even if you're following signs, they might suddenly disappear before you get there), so it's very important to study a map or get Google directions beforehand. Even then, the same street may have a couple of different names, so write down *all* of them.
The rental car return is the worst part -- there are some signs, but they don't take you all the way to the lots, most of which are in twisty little industrial streets to the east of the airport. I'm usually comfortable walking alone through the tougher parts of bigger cities, but I have to admit that I was a little nervous driving around there (the packs of apparently ownerless dogs living on the streets were one clue that all wasn't well).
Final verdict: the airport itself is fine, but the state and city seem not to care much about people using it, despite the fact that the area economy relies heavily on tourism, and so many visitors have fallen victim to crime driving to and from MIA. I guess it's a nice airport located in a dysfunctional city and state.
Awful airport for visiting NYC
This is a great airport for visiting northern New Jersey, but a truly awful one for visiting NYC. It is a very long, expensive cab ride into Manhattan from EWR -- I once spent 90 minutes stuck in Hoboken in rush hour before even trying the tunnels. The tunnels themselves (Holland or Lincoln) are both very slow.
The worst part, though, is trying to get *back* to EWR from Manhattan. New York cabbies hate doing the drive, since they can't take a fare back and will end up losing an hour or two of their day. The worst time is mid- to late-afternoon, near shift change. I once had to bribe a cabbie with an extra $50 just so that he'd take me in time to get my suppertime flight. Seriously, if you have any choice at all, fly into LaGuardia instead, where it's a cheap and reasonably quick NYC cab ride into Manhattan.
Customs and LGA
LaGuardia has customs available for general aviation, but unlike EWR and JFK, it doesn't have a separate international section with customs lines, etc. As a result, it handles only domestic U.S. scheduled airline flights, as well as a few from Canadian airports that have U.S. customs preclearance facilities. A lot of its traffic is shuttles up and down the east coast and out to Chicago.
It was a huge deal for me when Ottawa added customs preclearance in the late 1990s, because then I could fly from YOW straight to LGA and take a cheap, fast taxi ride into midtown for business meetings, instead of having to fly to Newark and take a long, slow cab ride in, then try to bribe a NYC cabbie to take me all the way back out to Newark for a late afternoon flight home.
re: New airport
its deffinatly there...helped put the first set of rubber stripes on it a few months back...maybe its taking a while for the satelite to take a new picture of the area, dont expect one soon though we sold my old house over 3 years ago and it got demolished yet google maps still have it pictured!
kpuj is on the new sectional so go check it out!
Hello to the manager
Hey man
Sorry I wasn't airborn virtually and able to kick your ass.
From the sattelite-photo, I can see, you are hiding. Best wishes and good luck
Ivar, Denmark, Odense.
ijn@fyens.dk
Cheap Gas, Great Service, Under New Managment!
Cheapest fuel around SE Kansas. 3.00/gal for 100LL after Tax! they sell Auto also, 1.89.gal and Jet A 3.59/gal. The airport is under new managment. They now have wireless internet, and vending services. Has a "vintage" feel to it. The manager had said the possibility of having "Dawn Patrols" on the weekends in the future. If anybody has been to one they know they are a lot of fun!
Where's Willie?
This airport also houses an environment canada office / weather station. If you head up to the second floor of the main terminal building (where the cafe is) you can go outside on a patio where there are some weather instruments. There is a sunshine recorder and a tool to measure clouds (I can't remember what it was called). Please obey the signs and don't touch them :) I'm sure if you arrive at the right time, you will see them launch a weather balloon to measure the upper winds!
When we landed we were greeted by someone who offered us a ride into town for a bite to eat. We declined as we just needed to use the facilities and make our way back home. Checked out the pilot's lounge... and took a quick look around the terminal building. Signed the guest register (we we approx the 15th visitor in 2009) and headed home.
The Silver Wing
Visited St Mary's on Sunday, March 15 and had breakfast at the Silver Wing, which occupies the second floor of the nice new terminal building on the field. Nice restaurant, good food, terrific view of the ramp and runway. With the way airport restaurants have been closing, stop in and keep these nice people in business!
Closed
Now Mariel is closed and used as a container terminal.
Friendly airport
Salmon Arm airport is a great place to visit they have a club car for rent you can set up a tent under the wing, the clubhouse has a shower or you can use the clubhouse to rest.
re: Closed
Now you know how I feel about Meigs.
re: WiFi
Yes, I've never seen a big Canadian style "flying club" in the US like I've seen at Ottawa, Oshawa (now defunct, I'm afraid) and Brampton. Didn't a lot of Canadian flying clubs get started with cheap war surplus training aircraft? I think I read a history of the Oshawa flying club that said they got a few Moths and similar trainers from the Commonwealth Training Plan.
re: WiFi
In the U.S., isn't a "flying club" a few people who get together to buy and operate a plane or two? In Canada, it's often a big, non-profit FBO and flight school (sometimes with a pilot shop as well), because that's the way flight training got started in Canada in the 1920s and 30s.
re: Accueil
Sounds great! I've flown over this airport a few times on trips from Ottawa to the Gulf or the Maritimes, but never thought of landing. Riding a rented bicycle around a quiet island in the summer sounds very relaxing.
Closed
Never got to fly here..and the airport is now closed :(
Restaurant?
I'm planning a flight for this weekend to YSB. I will take the notes below in consideration when parking the aircraft.
Just a quick question. Is there a restaurant in the terminal?
Gone?
Deleted from the latest FAA database.
Cherokee 140
Ralph's 140 home base
7488R home base
7488R home base
SLE
Flying Club 2 yrs
Many flights
re: Bornmann field NAME
re: Bornmann name send anything to dwbor@hotmail.com
thank you! DON BORNMANN from wisc.
Bornmann field NAME
who, what, why, and how did it get name ?
Accueil
Très bel accueil, location de vélo en été
Greetings From Poland
Hello to all ! Greetings From Poland. very Good Page !
Great little airport
just off the island of montreal, used more as a flight training school, but lots of private owners use it as well.
if you are looking to refuel fly 20mins west to cornwall regional, gas prices are cheaper because of less tax.
Closed to all traffic?
According to the Wikipedia article, this airport closed in 2006 when airline traffic moved to La Isabela, and the military blocked the runway. There are a lot of planes on the apron in the Google satellite photo, though — could the photo really be three years old? More info would be appreciated.
Principal air base of the Dominican Air Force
This is the main base for the Dominican Air Force. It originally opened in 1953 as Trujillo Air Base, and was renamed to San Isidro Air Base in 1961. According to Wikipedia, most of the fixed- and rotor-wing fleet is based here.
Continental Connection/Colgan Air Crash
On 12 February 2009 Colgan Air 3407, a Dash 8 Q400, crashed into a house six miles short of runway 23, killing everyone on board and one person in a house on the ground:
To be privatized?
The state of Connecticut is considering privatizing this airport, along with Waterbury/Oxford, Groton, Danielson, and Hartford Brainard:
To be privatized?
The state of Connecticut is considering privatizing this airport, along with Waterbury/Oxford, Groton, Hartford Brainard, and Windham:
To be privatized?
The state of Connecticut is considering privatizing this airport, along with Waterbury/Oxford, Hartford Brainard, Danielson, and Windham:
To be privatized?
The state of Connecticut is considering privatizing this airport, along with Hartford Brainard, Groton, Danielson, and Windham:
To be privatized?
The state of Connecticut is considering privatizing this airport, along with Waterbury/Oxford, Groton, Danielson, and Windham:
Wind farms
It's worth a trip to the Pincher Creek airport to check out the wind farms in the area. And you'll get a close up look at a wind turbine on the north side of the airport on the downwind for runway 07.
That's an OLD image!
The satellite image provided is more than 4 years old! KMRN now has new hangar buildings, a parallel taxiway from the mid-field ramp at taxiway C to the end of RWY 21, new pavement markings, two helipads next to the FBO building, and the wind sock and segmented circle have been relocated.
FRA-admin (www.foothillsregionalaviation.com)
re: Harrowing And Fond Memories
My primary flight training back in 1969-71 was out of LGA. The school was the long extinct La Guardia Flying Service. LGA being what it is meant we flew elsewhere for practicing t&g's and full stop landings. Lincoln Park was probably my favorite airport since I could get an idea of what making a carrier landing was like. If I remember correctly, the runway was gravel in those days and much shorter. Can anyone confirm this?
Dennis Harper
Timmies
Timmies in the main terminal. Park at shell and walk over.
Flyboys Restaurant
I would like to leave some comments on Flyboys restaurant at Mansfield Lahm (KMFD). I have always stopped in to KMFD on my travels to take a break, and I really enjoy the airport there. The Flyboys restaurant is without a doubt my favorite place to stop and eat. Heck I made a special trip one night and got weathered in. The employees in this place work really hard, and provide a great meal and great service. It is a family owned place and the owners and their children also help out. They are a riot and I always leave them a small tip as well. They are extremely friendly and whenever we walk in always ask "Where did you fly in from". It's kind of like the "Cheers" of flying. Anyway, I am sure, like other businesses, this place is also feeling the effects of our crappy economy, so I am asking all of you to help these guys out and fly in and have a great meal and conversation. I was there a week ago and heard that Flyboys is for sale. The owner is a military member from across the street at the guard base and his new position requires him to travel quite frequently, and is due to be deployed soon. It's very difficult to run a business from a distance, and I am sure even more difficult to run while still serving in the military. So, if anyone is interested in an already established business with the benefits of being on an airport, contact the manager Vickie or Kay at Flyboys and they can put you in contact with the owner. Thanks for your time. Be safe.
Well maintained grass field
This is a nice E/W field adjacent to Illinois Route 15 between Belleville, IL and East St. Louis, IL. Very easy to sight on due to diagonal SW/NE 4-lane highway right next to it. St. Elizabeth's Hospital is very quickly reached from here.
JKF Sucks
This has to be one of the worst airports it has ever been my misfortune to fly through. We had to queue outside in 100 degree heat to get to check as non of the automated check in booths was working. No staff to help!
Coming back - there is no direct wheel chair access from plane side to immigration meaning my wife and I were separated as she walked to immigration and I was wheeled out of the airport and backwards through customs and immigration to finally have our passports stamped.
The whole environment of the airport is dirty, dark and generally horrid, I will try really hard to never travel through here again.
no air traffic control
There is however regular scheduled service to Washington DC, Detroit and Philadelphia from State College. Allegedly on home football game days this becomes the busiest uncontrolled airfield in the US/the world (depends on the source). The runway had to be lengthened to allow Michigan to land their enormous jet with the whole team and band on board.
Great Local Airport
LHZ has the cheapest fuel prices in eastern NC... and it is full service. Rob Southerland is new airport director.
Blog entry about this airport
🔗 Sun, 29 Mar 2009
— @david at Toussaint Louverture International Airport, Haiti
Here's a blog entry from a family working in Haiti, apparently as missionaries, though the content is purely secular. Passengers arriving at PAP have to walk a long distance outside to the terminal, which is not always possible during rainy season due to flooding:
http://bleshblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/pouring-raintroubled-pap-airport/