Aleutian Island airports?

In a previous article, said:
What's the farthest west civilian airport in the Aleutians? I see
military airports on Shemya and Attu: what happens if a civilian
aircraft comes along and politely asks to join the traffic pattern?

PATU, Casco Cove CGS, is listed as joint use. It's at 173 degrees EAST.

mysql select * from waypoint where type = 'AIRPORT' and state = 'AK' and longitude -150 order by longitude;
+------+----------------+---------+----------------+---------+-------+---------+------------------+-------------------+-------------+------------+-----------+----------------+----------+-----------+------+
| id | datasource_key | type | name | address | state | country | latitude | longitude | declination | datasource | elevation | main_frequency | ispublic | chart_map | tpa |
+------+----------------+---------+----------------+---------+-------+---------+------------------+-------------------+-------------+------------+-----------+----------------+----------+-----------+------+
| PASY | US85050 | AIRPORT | EARECKSON AS | | AK | US | 52.712275 | -174.11362 | -1.65 | 2 | 98 | | 1 | 0 | NULL |
| SYA | 50699.*A | AIRPORT | EARECKSON AS | SHEMYA | AK | US | 52.712275 | -174.113619444444 | -3 | 1 | 97 | 127.200 | 0 | 0 | NULL |
| PATU | US00356 | AIRPORT | CASCO COVE CGS | | AK | US | 52.828356 | -173.180306 | -1.14 | 2 | 40 | | 1 | 0 | NULL |
| ATU | 50046.*A | AIRPORT | CASCO COVE CGS | ATTU | AK | US | 52.8283555555556 | -173.180305555556 | -3 | 1 | 40 | 122.900 | 0 | 0 | NULL |
+------+----------------+---------+----------------+---------+-------+---------+------------------+-------------------+-------------+------------+-----------+----------------+----------+-----------+------+
4 rows in set (0.26 sec)



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"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, said:
What's the farthest west civilian airport in the Aleutians? I see
military airports on Shemya and Attu: what happens if a civilian
aircraft comes along and politely asks to join the traffic pattern?

PATU, Casco Cove CGS, is listed as joint use. It's at 173 degrees EAST.

mysql select * from waypoint where type = 'AIRPORT' and state = 'AK' and
longitude -150 order by longitude;


Adak is at long -176.6460306, is open to the public and has a very nice,
modern airport.
http://www.alaska.net/~vwadak/airport.html

In a previous article, "Matt Barrow" said:
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In a previous article, said:
What's the farthest west civilian airport in the Aleutians? I see
military airports on Shemya and Attu: what happens if a civilian
aircraft comes along and politely asks to join the traffic pattern?

PATU, Casco Cove CGS, is listed as joint use. It's at 173 degrees EAST.

mysql select * from waypoint where type = 'AIRPORT' and state = 'AK' and
longitude -150 order by longitude;


Adak is at long -176.6460306, is open to the public and has a very nice,
modern airport.
http://www.alaska.net/~vwadak/airport.html

-173 is further west than -176.


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In a previous article, "Matt Barrow" said:
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In a previous article, said:
What's the farthest west civilian airport in the Aleutians? I see
military airports on Shemya and Attu: what happens if a civilian
aircraft comes along and politely asks to join the traffic pattern?

PATU, Casco Cove CGS, is listed as joint use. It's at 173 degrees EAST.

mysql select * from waypoint where type = 'AIRPORT' and state = 'AK'
and
longitude -150 order by longitude;


Adak is at long -176.6460306, is open to the public and has a very nice,
modern airport.
http://www.alaska.net/~vwadak/airport.html

-173 is further west than -176.


How did you arrive at that conclusion? Assuming -180 (W) = +180 (E) =
International date line.

In a previous article, "S Narayan" said:
"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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mysql select * from waypoint where type = 'AIRPORT' and state = 'AK'
and
longitude -150 order by longitude;


Adak is at long -176.6460306, is open to the public and has a very nice,
modern airport.
http://www.alaska.net/~vwadak/airport.html

-173 is further west than -176.


How did you arrive at that conclusion? Assuming -180 (W) = +180 (E) =
International date line.

Actually Adak is at +176.6460306 and Casco Cove is at -173. But even if
Adak was at -176 and Casco Cove was at -173 in my coordinate system (W is
positive), Casco would still be further west than Adak.

However, no matter how you slice it, if you're at Adak and you want to get
to Casco Cove, you go west. Look at a globe.


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In a previous article, "Matt Barrow" said:
"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, said:
What's the farthest west civilian airport in the Aleutians? I see
military airports on Shemya and Attu: what happens if a civilian
aircraft comes along and politely asks to join the traffic pattern?

PATU, Casco Cove CGS, is listed as joint use. It's at 173 degrees
EAST.

mysql select * from waypoint where type = 'AIRPORT' and state = 'AK'
and
longitude -150 order by longitude;


Adak is at long -176.6460306, is open to the public and has a very nice,
modern airport.
http://www.alaska.net/~vwadak/airport.html

-173 is further west than -176.

Yes, it's this side of the date line...but it's strictly a civil airport.

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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What's the farthest west civilian airport in the Aleutians? I see
military airports on Shemya and Attu: what happens if a civilian
aircraft comes along and politely asks to join the traffic pattern?


Sidewinder up the wazoo! :~(

Looks like the westernmost _civil_ airport (not seaplane base) is Atka.

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 07:51:56 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote:

Sidewinder up the wazoo! :~(

I question that. Note that the Cessna got within 3 miles of the White
House without being shot down.


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On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 07:51:56 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote:

Sidewinder up the wazoo! :~(

I question that. Note that the Cessna got within 3 miles of the White
House without being shot down.

The C-150 would have fallen on city dwellers...anything in Alaska would only
fall on a whale.

But I suppose whales are considered more precious than people.

Matt Barrow wrote:

But I suppose whales are considered more precious than people.

Well, if you believe that a greater value should be placed on the rarer item,
they certainly are.

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and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.