nooneimportant wrote:

"Jeff Saylor" wrote in message
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Allen C Perkinson Airport/Blackstone Army Airfield (KBKT) in
Virgina has a control tower, at least part of the time. It also
has class G airspace to 700 ft AGL.

What are the procedures for operating at a tower in uncontrolled
airspace? When are you obligated to communicate with the tower,
other than touching the runways? I don't recall this being
discussed much during flight training way back when.

How common is it to have a tower (other than a special temporary
tower, e.g. the one during EAA Oshkosh or AOPA fly-in.) without
at least Class D airspace?


Got two towers closeby to my field that are not in Class D... My field is
currently nontowered, but is expected to get a tower and upgrade itself, and
one of the two nearby fields to Class D airspace. Basically what I hear is
to treat it just like Class D... 4 mile radius up to 2500 AGL, contact to
transition, land or depart from. From what i understand, and i could be
wrong here, the diff between Towered G and Class D is that Class D does have
radar service.

That's not correct, many (most?) Class D towers do not have radar services. If
they have a radar display at all, it is probably a remote from another facility,
unless the class D is surrounded by a TRSA. (Or it has its own approach
control, such as KRDG, Pennsylvania.)