Airport comments by @ptomblin

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re: location of indicator on map is wrong

I've made the change.

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re: Map to be changed

Reply to @Inducedrag: I see three runways on that map. Why do you think it needs to be changed?

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WOW!

We're not your personal research facility. If you're not getting the answer you need, then try doing some actual research.

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re: codes WI87 / US-4WI7

Reply to @rrobledo: I changed the code to WI87 back in January.

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re: Can't find this airport

This new location is certainly closer to Sliker Road.

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re: Location

Since there is a plane at the dock in the Google map, I've moved the marker.

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re: wrong coordinate

Made the change.

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re: When does it open

Airports don't fly anywhere. They just sit there and let the planes come to them.

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re: Two separate airports

Reply to @david: Also, Airnav lists different runway lengths for the two runways. I'd suggest that maybe they used to be one and were cut in half - that would explain the remark about the ditch at one end of the runway.

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re: Two separate airports

Reply to @david: Both airports are in the FAA database, and they list different owners. Check out the AirNav.com listings.

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re: House for sale on this airstrip ..

The person spamming these comments (I've deleted a bunch of them already) is Bernice Velez, real estate agent. Her email address is bernicevelez@mac.com

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re: Wrong Place

I've moved the airport marker to what looks like an airstrip near those coordinates.

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re: re: Avgas in drums

Reply to @david: I read a couple of books by a Minnesota dentist who liked to take his Super Cub for trips around the Canadian North - it sounded like he often had to arrange for drums at places he was planning to stop, and he'd take the excess on board as baggage. Then he'd fly for a while, find a likely lake to drop into (he was on straight floats) and then transfer the fuel from the bags in the baggage compartment to the fuel tanks.

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re: IΒ΄m not sure

Reply to @choppergb: You're right, there is definitely a more obvious airport at that location, and it is closer to Yapeyu city.

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re: CLSD

Reply to @david: I've put a POI where I think he means.

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re: WRONG POSITION

Reply to @choppergb: I've moved the marker.

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re: A little more south

Reply to @choppergb: There is already an airport marked at that location. It's called "Cardone Airport".

http://www.ourairports.com/airports/AR-0081/

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re: anyone flown into here from Canada?

I have, but only pre-9/11. It required 2 hours prior notice by phone, and don't you *dare* get out of the plane before the customs guy gets there. (Although it's ok to stand on the wing and pee if you have to - but only if you have a low-wing.)

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re: ???

Reply to @ghuzmeli: The airport isn't on Spratly Island, it's on Swallow Reef, which was built up into an artificial island by Malaysia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow_Reef

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re: HSSS

Reply to @jmblanco430: What is that second number, the ILS frequency?

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re: Fiddymint field gone!

It's still in the 02July09 FAA database.

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It's closing

http://www.aviation.ca/content/view/7583/117/

"Blatchford Field Airport in downtown Edmonton City Centre will be closing the run-ways. At a vote today in council chambers, aviation just didn’t measure up.

The Airport was a primary learning base during WWll.

Edmonton City Centre Airport is a major Airport for air charter, emergency medical transport, and supply gateway to the north and it is too soon to tell what other implications the closing may have."

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Latest FAA data

The latest FAA dataset has this airport's id as "54X", but that could be a mistake on their part. They've made worse mistakes in the past.

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re: fuel purchase

The airport is shown on the sectional chart as a circle without the 3 bumps, which means no services. Your best option may be to go to KTPH.

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OY-JET

If you want to see cluelessness in action, google for the OY-JET video. A jet registered in Denmark "landed" at Bader Field, landing downwind on a runway NOTAMed against jet operations, touched down at about the half way point on a runway that would have been too small for that jet even without a tail wind and without leaving half the runway behind them, skidded into the bay, and then after everybody was evacuated one of the jet engines seemed to start up and start pushing the plane around the bay.

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re: Talkeetna Airport Noise Pollution and Invation of Privac

Talkeetna airport opened in 1949. Unless you're over 60 years old, the airport got there before you did.

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re: What is it actually called?

This airport is called "Denali Airport", but it's private. I suspect you're looking for the nearby "McKinley National Park Airport" (PAIN) that belongs to the Park Service:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinley_National_Park_Airport

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re: SBIA

You'll probably have to go to RPLL (Ninoy Aquino International Airport).

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Closed

This airport was closed some years ago and all the aircraft moved to KRME.

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re: Don't depart IFR on a VFR day!

In my case, I taxied without the IFR clearance because that was what I was instructed to do when I called for a clearance.

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re: Danby Is a Classified Installation

According to the FAA, it belongs to

FOUR CORNERS PIPE LINE CO

5900 CHERRY AVE

LONG BEACH, CA 90805

Phone 310-428-9282

and the manager is

BURTON VOSS

5900 CHERRY AVE

LONG BEACH, CA 90805

Phone 310-428-9282

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re: Danby Is a Classified Installation

It's in the FAA data, so it's not very classified.

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re: Heath Canyon Airport

Reply to @misterbick: The FAA still marks it as open.

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re: Why does this helistop exist?

That big building across the street is probably a hospital.

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Location?

I was only 9 years old when we left the area, but I've put a POI about where I think the airport really was. Rumour had it back then that the owner had put everything in his wife's name because he'd been sued over an accident.

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re: about the airport

Generally an "international" airport means it has scheduled international service, although some of the small airports around here call themselves ""international" because they have on-call Customs service.

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re: Closed

Now you know how I feel about Meigs.

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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.

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Gone?

Deleted from the latest FAA database.

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re: This time the FAA is wrong

And the FAA replies:

We received the information to change the lat/long from GCR thru a XML

report.

Per telephone conversation with Joyce, GCR, she advised me to change the

lat/long back to what was previously published in NASR. See NFDD 015 dated

1/26/09.

Karen Myers-Martino

National Flight Data Center, AJR-32

202-267-9286

Fax 202-267-5322

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Wrong ID?

FAA uses MN76 for Marty's Tranquility Base, Prior Lake.

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Oh oh

Gordon Plew's CFS has this one as CFJ2, but his WAS has CFJ2 as CARIGNAN/RIVIÈRE L'ACADIE in Quebec.

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Wrong ID?

FAA uses TE05 for Mx Ranch Heliport

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Wrong ID?

FAA uses 25OR for Jack's Heliport, Scio.

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Wrong ID?

FAA uses LA14 for Coffman Heliport

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Wrong ID?

FAA uses 14NY for Windy's Heliport, Melville.

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Wrong ID?

FAA uses OH79 for Vermilion Township Heliport.

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Wrong ID?

FAA uses 64TX for North Central Baptist Hospital, San Antonio.

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Wrong ID?

FAA uses UT11 for Intermountain Medical Center in Murray.

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re: Wrong coordinates!

Should probably mention: FAA coordinates are (34.7866666666667,-116.464333333333)