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03-08-2019 | 09:21 AM
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My understanding (which might well be wrong) was that the ASOS went down to 1/2 mile vis with heavier brief flurries reported on the ground. White runway surrounded by white snow with inadequate snow removal. Good runway because it's left over from a USAF base closed in the 60s, but the town itself is less than 10,000 population served because it's Essential Air Service. They have neither the personnel nor the equipment to keep a runway cleared to the extent a busier field would.
And many of us have flown into as or more challenging airports in worse conditions. I am not judging but, they weren’t anywhere close to a runway.
If the runway was that bad there is a great alternate 100 miles or so to the south, Bangor, ME. Time to use that command decision as the CA and do what’s safe.
03-08-2019 | 10:41 AM
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My understanding (which might well be wrong) was that the ASOS went down to 1/2 mile vis with heavier brief flurries reported on the ground. White runway surrounded by white snow with inadequate snow removal. Good runway because it's left over from a USAF base closed in the 60s, but the town itself is less than 10,000 population served because it's Essential Air Service. They have neither the personnel nor the equipment to keep a runway cleared to the extent a busier field would.
03-08-2019 | 10:47 AM
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03-08-2019 | 11:14 AM
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03-08-2019 | 11:46 AM
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It was also briefly (less than a year) a cruise missile base:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pres...Air_Force_Base
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pres...Air_Force_Base
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