The FAA closing some towers

The news hit the wire today that the FAA is shutting down the control towers -- 149 of them to be precise.One of the airports losing their tower is KCGF -- Cuyahoga County back in Cleveland.All sorts of folks are up in arms with the fear of safety.Bunk.KCGF, for instance, averages 185 operations per day. KCLE, by comparison, has 515 a day.So, KCGF loses it's tower. So what?

  1. KCLE, only 19 miles away, will handle approach, departure, and clearance delivery like they already do.
  2. The tower is already closed at night and all hell has not broken out.
  3. The pilots will handle talking to each other on CTAF on radio like they do for thousands of uncontrolled airports in the country.
  4. CTAF is part of standard pilot training
  5. ILS will still continue to operate.
  6. New GPS instruments deal with taxi situations better without ground

What happens?We, the tax payers, save a whole lot of money.

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