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Wichita Airspace Question and overlapping airspace
So, Wichita, Kansas seems to be blessed with a lot of airports and the
sectional chart looks pretty busy. To the east of Wichita Mid Continent (ICT), there is Col. Jabara (towerless), Beech Factory (private field w/ tower), McConnell AFB, etc. McConnel's Class D just grazes Beech's towered field, which has no class D marked for itself. Jabara's Class E surface area also appears to graze Beech's field from the other side. In addition, the outer ring of ICT's class C passes over Beech field. There are numerous smaller airports within these areas as well. The tower at Beech closes at quitting time (1730), but strangely its CTAF is a different frequency than its tower. This CTAF is 122.7, which adjacent Jabara also uses...perhaps to facilitate self coordination between the two airports' patterns. So, I recall that an airport with an operating tower requires pilots to contact it within _ nm, even if there is no class D airspace depicted, or if it is an operating tower within class E airspace. In practice, how does this work with Jabara so close to Beech? And how closely does neighboring McConnell work with Beech? McConnell's D ceiling is 3,900 although much of it lies in the outer ring of ICT's C which is from 2,700 to 5,300. Sounds like fun! Perhaps there are a lot of Letters of Agreement in effect between the various facilities? |
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