ptomblin's airport comments

A few FAA updates ago, Allentown Queen City changed id to KJVU and now it's changed id again to KXLL. (Except the FAA screwed up and put "XLL" in the FAA id part and "KJVU" in the ICAO part of the data)

Not in the latest FAA data.

It's not in the next FAA data set.

I'm loading the next FAA dataset, and this airport doesn't appear on it any more.

CKK3 and 8U3 appear to be the same airport. You merged 7S8 and CEP4, so these should probably be merged as well.

But the two records also list different owners. I suppose the only way this is going to be settled is for somebody to phone both owners.

Oh, and the two records have different runways, one is 16/34 1500x75 and the other is "NW/SE" 1500x100.

Interestingly enough, they aren't *exactly* duplicates, at least not after I've done processing them into my navaid.com database. The latitude, longitudes and elevations are slightly different.

I have WA58 is 48.6525, -122.584166667, elev 5 and WA93 is 48.652606388889, -122.57461722, elev 8. I think that makes them 1.8nm apart according to http://williams.best.vwh.net/gccalc.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7446469.stm

"Vietnamese authorities say they are mystified as to who owns a Boeing 727 which has been abandoned at Hanoi's Noi Bai airport."

The DAFIF record for this airport shows both ids. I assume it's one for the civil part and one for the military part. It also has "Palma De Mallorca" and "Son San Juan" shown as names.

So which one are you going with?

The float plane base is a separate entry in this site - id "CSA7".

There doesn't appear to be a taxiway to the south that could get it to the runway.

In the satellite picture, it looks like there is a very large airplane with no way to get to the runway. I wonder if it's really cut off, or if they taxi it over the lava flow?

I must have tied up traffic for 30 minutes of more waiting at the entrance for my IFR clearance. I'd taxied out after being told to, but there were 4 or 5 planes waiting behind me and by the time I suddenly realized that I could depart VFR and pick up a clearance later, the clearance had actually come. I felt like a complete dick.

The word "Baiyun" means "white cloud", which is an inauspicious name for an airport. However, it makes a good name for a cockatiel: http://gallery.xcski.com/v/paulart/photo_contest/baiyun.jpg.html

The first time I flew commercial into New York City I saw this underneath us as we were being vectored around. I didn't notice the historical aircraft, but there were plenty of helicopters.

The id on this airport should be "D38", not "KD38".

1550 feet long, according to the FAA.

I doubt this is correctly located as it appears to be in the middle of the interchange at I390 and Scottsville Rd. Their address is on Airpark drive which is a few hundred metres down the road. Come to think of it, I think there is a building down there with a windsock on the roof.

Funny, it was still in the December FAA data set.

If you're paying a fee for landing, isn't it pretty much a given that you're also going to take off? So why don't they just increase the landing fee rather than imposing a takeoff fee as well?

Take it up with Google.

I have my doubts about several of the airports that came from that particular user. I've got 529 Australian airports from him, so I'm reluctant to delete them all, but I'm also reluctant to verify them all.

We took our club's Dakota here to get painted. They did an excellent job, and the plane looks beautiful now.

Refueled here on the way to Oshkosh. They had free hotdogs, which I think is why my fellow club members chose it.