New HPN Tower Procedure for VFR traffic

The following just got forwarded to me (I did some minor
reformatting). I thought people here might be interested and/or have
comments to make. For those not familiar, WAA is the Westcheter
Aviation Association, a HPN user group.

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From: Jeffrey W Lee ]
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:44 AM
To:
Cc:
Subject: New HPN Tower Procedure for VFR traffic


All,

Some of you have noted a new procedure for VFR traffic departing HPN.
The tower is requesting that you contact Clearance Delivery prior to
contacting Ground Control. I have asked the tower manager, Tom Cahill
about this change and here is his response.

Jeff - The new procedure is a result of an operational
error/deviation that occurred on 11/23. The local controller
mistook a IFR aircraft as being VFR. The obvious solution is
to have a flight progress strip for all aircraft landing and
departing HPN. the strips will indicate IFR,VFR, SVFR, or
class "B". This should preclude another error of the same.

Tom is requesting our feedback on this new procedure over the next
couple of weeks to see how it is working or might be improved.
Please send your feedback to me and I will ask Tom to address this
topic at our December 12th breakfast meeting. Thanks.
Jeff
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