173 ATC Towers to Close

The sequester is hitting ATC towers. Here's the story from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/05/travel...ex.html?hpt=h\
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Here's a list of the 173 towers to be closed:
http://www.faa.gov/news/updates/medi..._Be_Closed.pdf

-John, Q3

Wow, that affects some extremely busy towered airports in the Minneapolis
area. I don't know if those airports can operate safely without a control
tower.

Paul Remde

"John Carlyle" wrote in message
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The sequester is hitting ATC towers. Here's the story from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/05/travel...ex.html?hpt=h\
p_t2

Here's a list of the 173 towers to be closed:
http://www.faa.gov/news/updates/medi..._Be_Closed.pdf

-John, Q3

Isn't that the point?

..Gov once again employing emotional extortion to get what they want?

By cutting or threatening cuts that are overwhelmingly "bottom-up", and exact maximumal suffering and exposure upon the general public, "we" are far more likely to cave in to .Gov's insatiable desire for more $$ and/or control.

Throw in a few "public safety" and "for the children" clauses and you have covered 90% of modern political rhetoric.

On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 6:03:24 PM UTC-5, Paul Remde wrote:
I don't know if those airports can operate safely without a control
tower.

There will be 'h--- to pay' if there is an accident related to the closures.

On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 4:19:35 PM UTC-7, wrote:
Isn't that the point?



.Gov once again employing emotional extortion to get what they want?



By cutting or threatening cuts that are overwhelmingly "bottom-up", and exact maximumal suffering and exposure upon the general public, "we" are far more likely to cave in to .Gov's insatiable desire for more $$ and/or control.



Throw in a few "public safety" and "for the children" clauses and you have covered 90% of modern political rhetoric.

More likely to turn the screws on the 1%. Many private jet insurance policies limit operations to tower controlled fields.

The Lone Star Executive in Conroe, not Houston as the FAA list shows, has no commercial flights, maybe a few charters now and then. I don't see why they ever needed a tower.

ASW27BV

This is the first I've ever heard of that.

Most of the airports in Kansas on the list...I have no idea why they have towers, except that most of them get 1 regional flight a day or something.

No active control tower - airspace would change - I have more areas to fly to.

That would be interesting .

Zen

Great - more unencumbered airspace for sailplanes!

Mike

Back in my teaching days, many years ago, one of the things I liked to
ask the class to consider was this: Imagine a government agency with
only two tasks: (1) building statues of Benedict Arnold and (2)
providing life-saving medications to children. If this agency's budget
were cut, what would it do?
The answer, of course, is that it would cut back on the medications
for children. Why? Because that would be what was most likely to get
the budget cuts restored. If they cut back on building statues of
Benedict Arnold, people might ask why they were building statues of
Benedict Arnold in the first place.

The example was deliberately extreme as an illustration. But, in the
real world, the same general pattern can be seen in local, state and
national government responses to budget cuts.

The above is from a recent column by Thomas Sowell.