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Things like this don't scale. Imagine how much flight control would get done if anyone could walk in there and strike up a conversation.
by cl0ckt0wer 5y ago
Things like this don't scale. Imagine how much flight control would get done if anyone could walk in there and strike up a conversation.
- MattGaiser 5y agoOh, no they do not, but is it a case of 100 people contacting the airport and being ignored or does awareness of it not scaling mean that a runway manager in NY is asked less than one in remote Alaska?
- nexuist 5y agoI mean...at a bigger airport the runway would just have built-in lighting, a situation like this one would never occur. Even at un-monitored (read: no ATC) airports the pilots themselves can turn on/off the lights via radio command, or the airport authorities just keep the lights on during night time or bad weather. Nobody would have to call up the airport manager because the problem would be dealt with. EDIT: I see now that the airport did have lights, but they happened to be out. Unfortunately the article gives no information as to why they were out, so I have no idea how that happened / was allowed.
- Grustaf 5y agoI don't think it is meant to scale to commercial airports.