Military fields are now uncontrolled
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:42 am
The recorded aircraft on the network generally operate from non-towered airports, by design. An exception to this is the military traffic, which operates from various towered facilities on the network.
After a few attempts to handle live traffic mixed in with high density drone operations at various bases, I've decided that it would be best for all involved to treat the military fields (and Palmdale) as non-towered airports.
If anyone has any issues with this, please let me know. If there is sufficient live military traffic on the network, I can potentially designate a couple of the facilities as being towered (Edwards & Yuma, for example, which currently have no drone traffic) if that would be useful, but for now, the starting position is that the military fields and PMD are now non-towered.
EDIT for clarification: All military airfields' towers, AND Palmdale's tower, are now closed. Once the system is updated to reflect this, pilots will be able to tune the CTAF for those fields (the tower freq) and announce their intentions, as they would any non-towered field. Yuma (NYL) is a joint-use public facility with no drone traffic. The tower will REMAIN OPEN there. I will make a post here when the frequency update is done.
After a few attempts to handle live traffic mixed in with high density drone operations at various bases, I've decided that it would be best for all involved to treat the military fields (and Palmdale) as non-towered airports.
If anyone has any issues with this, please let me know. If there is sufficient live military traffic on the network, I can potentially designate a couple of the facilities as being towered (Edwards & Yuma, for example, which currently have no drone traffic) if that would be useful, but for now, the starting position is that the military fields and PMD are now non-towered.
EDIT for clarification: All military airfields' towers, AND Palmdale's tower, are now closed. Once the system is updated to reflect this, pilots will be able to tune the CTAF for those fields (the tower freq) and announce their intentions, as they would any non-towered field. Yuma (NYL) is a joint-use public facility with no drone traffic. The tower will REMAIN OPEN there. I will make a post here when the frequency update is done.