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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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Wichita Airspace Question and overlapping airspace
Wichita Approach handles Wichita, Newton (25 nm north and
Hutchinson (35 NM northwest). Unfortunately, with the reduced number of civil flights at all the airports, there is no conflict. Special traffic patterns are listed in the AFD, it would be nice to have a VFR terminal chart that covered from El Dorado, to Arkansas City, Anthony, Hutchinson, Newton, etc. But the traffic count doesn't justify it. The old Cessna factory airport is just across the road from McConnell AFB and under their glide path. When the Beech tower is closed, you talk directly to ICT departure for IFR release while on the ramp. It gets busy when flying a Beechjet from ICT to BEC, you have to have the whole flight picture in mind before take-off from ICT, departing Beech and you will always turn east and be vectored around the other airports, but going to Beech from ICT will get you at or below 3,000, to the radio tower just near Wichita State University, contact the tower on right base /downwind. "Owen" wrote in message ... | 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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