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Anyone have recommendation on how best to keep praire dogs off the airfield, when they are endangered in your State?    

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Hello, I work at an a small part 139 airport in western Kansas. We have been on a multi year decline on airport flight operations. I was wondering if there were any ideas that have worked well for others that helped increase their airport operations count?

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Nov 09, 2011 08:47 AM FAA has launched a wildlife poster outreach campaign for the general aviation community to increase wildlife strike reporting. The agency said that the GA population accounts for only 6 percent of the total strikes reported, which is more than 100,000 reports. Through increased and concentrated educational outreach to GA airports, FAA said it hopes to increase the number of strike reports. In addition to the poster outreach, the agency said...

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I have a aerial applicator (Crop Duster) on my field that has in the past "Hot Fueled." Our current rules and regulations forbid this type of fueling at this time. Does anyone else have a crop duster on their field, and if so, do you allow hot fueling and what are your procedures. This operator has their own fuel trailer that they fill the planes with and they operate from a staging area that is...

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I manage a non-towered GA Airport located in Florida. I have recieved feedback from a pilot saying that the Airport should open a NOTAM for equipment and personnel in the vicinity of the runway or taxiway each time we mow. Is this something that other Airports do? I have called a few and they currently do not issue NOTAMS when they mow next to a runway/taxiway. All of our equipment has amber lightbars on them...

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During a recent runway resurfacing project at our GA airport, the topic of glass beads came up. It is not a Part 139 airport and we can not seem to find any guidlines for the use of glass beads in writing. I think that we would be wise to utilize them from a pure safety and liability standpoint. However, I was hoping to find something in writing from the FAA stating that they are required...

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Here is an article about self-service fueling station. Self-Service Fueling Stations I know many of the members do not deal with the fueling of aircraft but you have tenants (FBO operators) that do. During the Arkansas Airport Operators Association (AAOA) Annual meeting my director is going to give a presentation on the need to conduct daily/monthly/annual inspections. To those that conduct these inspections it would seem unheard of not doing them, but there are a few...

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Recently my company offer me a PathPlaner training where I discover a very complete software capable to help airport planer and operator to better manage they're navigation infrastructure. SIMTRA has announced there will be soon PathPlaner V6 that will offer 3D aircraft movement simulation. It's amazing how it can be useful to produce 3D presentation of aircraft movement on the airport aircraft. I think that PathPlaner get a lot of his power from its integration...

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Interesting question came up lately, and I'm wondering what some of y'all do about it.   How many airports charge GA flights over 12,500 for landing fees? And if so, how do you capture the flights for recording/billing purposes? I'd imagine most of us rely on FBOs to self-report, but how do you ensure the reports are accurate?   Thoughts welcome...   -Brandon

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