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Would you like a website to advertise your airport to other pilots and to share the services your airport has to offer? If so, contact me at aviation_specialist@yahoo.com and I can get one set up for you.

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We are soon opening a brand new terminal building which will have some leasable office spaces. I would appreciate any input about your current lease rates and how you arrived at those. Local office space rates range from pennies per square foot to $5 per square foot and I'm not sure how to come up with a specific rate for our airport.

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What are your thoughts on landing fees? My airport is Town owned with no services on the field such as a restaurant. There are 2 FBOs that sell fuel at the same price as most other airports on Long Island. There is no tower and most traffic is from the flight schools, glider operations, and this spring a jump school. I would like to eliminate the landing fee because it is very hard to get...

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The FAA released a "Notice of proposed clarification of AIP grant assurances" basically requiring all airports in the NPIAS to undertake either Wildlife Hazard Assesments or Wildlife Hazard Site Visits. Comments are due January 9th.  (pretty quick!) Unfortunately the proposal does not include an economic assemement.  What are the "typical" costs of a WHA...  what are the "typical" costs of a WHSV?  Anybody have estimates? Personally I find this whole excersie pointless.  The propsoal will...

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Hi everyone.  I have an issue with some a grant assurance and would like to know how other airports handle this particular situation.  Our FBO is an FAA Repair Station and follows all applical rules/regulations associated with that.  They also lease most of our hangars and then sublease those hangars to private aircraft owners.  The sublease contract the owners sign has a clause that indicates that only the FBO will be allowed to do work...

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  In the spirit of the 2012 Olympics, Globalair.com is participating in the 2012 Special Olympics and donating the first $1000.00. We challenge you to get involved and support the cause. http://soky.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=1031847&lis=1&kntae1031847=AC5E8202005644FAB4FC415B9B648527&supId=0&team=5164043

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  Globalair.com surpassed its goal of over 500 subscriptions to the FBO Fuel Prices app. at 2012 AirVenture. We sure are proud that pilots from around the country see what a great app this is. Many thanks to our new customers and a big thanks to Airventure, Oshkosh for providing the venue to serve the aviation community! If you run a FBO besure to pass this along to your customers, a great app for them...

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Does anyone record an operation into your airport's airspace (such as an IFR missed approach or VFR low approach) without an actual landing or takeoff?

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Hi everyone -- We have just signed contracts to build a new City owned fuel farm at our airport.  Currently, the only fuel avialable at KHUT is though an FBO fuel farm.  This fuel farm is quite old and does not meet the requirements to maintain the gov't fueling contract our FBO maintances.  It was time for the City to pony up and put in a new fueling system. This new fueling system will only...

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This is one of the more interesting additions to our site - who wants one? http://www.globalair.com/aircraft_for_sale/listingdetail.aspx?adid=64506

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Does anyone know the AIP rules on the sale of an FAA funded 1980 SRE truck? Would like to sell it to the City but need to know the official procedures for the sale. Does there need to be an estimate? Can it be sold for less than Blue Book? I know the funds from the sale must be used at the airport but what sort of projects can the funds be used to pay...

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  All, Your help is requested with me to complete an Airport Cooperative Research Study on the training and orientation of maintenance new hires or the use on non airport maintenance personnel on your airport. ACRP Synthesis 06-04 “Adapting New Maintenance Hires to the Airport Environment” seeks to collect and summarize information on the orientation and training practices and policies of airports for maintenance personnel having duties and responsibilities on the airfield and ramp areas of...

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GlobalAir.com is giving away 2 tickets to EAA Airventure 2012, a 7-day General Aviation Celebration and Festival located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin (OSH) July 23-29 2012.   For Giveaway Details, please visit: http://www.globalair.com/oshkosh/giveaway.aspx

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General Aviation Airports: A National Asset documents an 18-month study of the nearly 3,000 general aviation (GA) airports, heliports, and seaplane bases identified in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS). This indepth analysis highlights for the traveling public the pivotal role GA airports play in our society, economy, and the aviation system. The study also aligns the GA airports into four categories---national, regional, local, and basic---based on their existing activity levels. The...

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Our airport is considering providing automotive fuel to our customers. We are the sole FBO and currently provide Avgas 100LL and JetA. I would like to hear the pro's and con's on this issue. Our airport board is recommending installling a self-serve automotive gasoline pump.  

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Has anyone completed or contracted for the FAA's newly proposed Wildlife Hazard Site Visit Assesment for General Aviation Airports?   Wondering what we can expect to pay?   thanks... Robert Hom KEGV        

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Throughout the year all business has their busy and slow times.  Here in Louisville Kentucky, Derby season is one of the busiest times for our local airports. The derby season is launched off with Thunder over Louisville, which consists of an air show and one of the largest fireworks show. To follow a few weeks later, there is Oaks and Derby, which brings in tons of celebrities. Louisville is full of life during the few...

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Do you charge landing fees on inbound charter aircraft, even if the aircraft is based at your airport? How is the revenue collected and what sort of tracking or auditing systems do you use?   This came up at our airport and we were wondering what others were doing, if anything. Thanks!

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If you want to know the source for all these environmental regulations that airports have to deal with these days one needs to look no further than Agenda 21.  Research and read Agenda 21 and you will not be suprised about the new environmental regulations and will know what will be coming down the pipeline in the future.  You can learn more by visitng the UN website and http://www.jbs.org

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How does everyone handle Helicopters operating inside the fence but out of non-movement areas. We have some helicopters that operate out of a T-Hangar area and are just curious if any one was a written procedure we could look at and see if it would be aplied here.

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I lecture and train law enforcement using my 20 years in the biz about aviation security issues and hijackings. My father was the first captain to be killed in a US hijacking while flying a Hawk Commander Oct 4, 1971. I have come to learn that most law enforcement organizations that would be the first responders to any hijacking, do not recognize the authority of the Pilot-In-Command. One FBI agent told me, "It is ludicrous...

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Do you use motion sensor cameras to count GA ops?  If not would you use AIP funds to purchase one if available to keep track of your ops at a non-towered airport?  Other than motion sensor cameras and audio recordings is there by chance another way that you currently use to count GA ops at your airport? Thank you.    

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If you could own any aircraft what would it be an why?

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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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