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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1968)
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GREEN STAMPS 2 Convenient Locations • Downtown 200 E. 24th St. • Ridgecrest 3516 Texas Ave. V-.- ’• :%V>r'A" THE BATTALION Thursday, May 9, 1968 Page 6 College Station, Texas Easterwood Under Control FAA In Chargi Traffic at Texas A&M’s East- erwood Airport gets the tender, loving care of a 20-man Federal Aviation Administration fora that provides the communities ol Bryan and College Station out of its most valuable services. Air traffic, a vital artery ol the cities’ business and educa> tional enterprises, is soaring at A&M-maintained Easterwood. Traffic control and safety ii tbfe responsibility of three FAA Operations sections quartered at Easterwood. THE OPERATIONS encom pass airspace up to 4,000 feet above and within 20 miles of the airfield, plus navigational aida scattered over 3,500 square milea of South Central Texas. Bobby Clay manages the con trol tower and flight service sta tion. The airways facilities sec tor is headed by Frank R. Kern- mer. THE 20 FFA employes take an annual payroll of $180,000. Fif teen are local homeowners. How their services aid the lo cal economy is much more impor tant. The Easterwood tower, trans ferred from Ellington AFB in 1953 and turned over to A&M in 1958, is manned by seven highly trained specialists. They take charge of aircraft from the mo ment a plane starts taxiing until it flies out of the 40-mile Easter wood sector and vice versa. As with incoming craft, control shifts from center to center for planes flying IFR (instrument flight rules). CONTROL IS through two- way radio communication, unless a plane without radio receives special permission to fly into the field. “FLIGHT SERVICE play an in creasingly important role in avi ation,” Clay observed. The nine-man station briefs pilots, supplies weather informa tion and data on facilities within f 400 miles of College Station, ac- i cepts and checks in flight plans : and provides airport advisory | service when the tower is closed. I The airways facilities sector | unedr Kemmer performs elec- I tronic maintainence on $1 million worth of navaids located at Col lege Station Navasota, Cameron and Leona, 15 miles north of Madisonville. THE SECTOR’S four men maintain precision equipment which provides enroute naviga tional guidance from Houston to Waco and instrument approach aids to Easterwood. Among equipment they support is a re cently-installed VORTAC unit. It automatically transmits 360 courses by Morse code and dis tance information to civil and military aircraft equipped with distance measuring devices. Sim ilar gear is on the drawing goard for Navasota. FFA HAS indicated Easter wood traffic is heavy enough to warrant installation of an instru ment landing system (ILS), ac cording to H. Guy Smith, airport manager. “This projected addition de pends on availability of funds,” he added, noting that conditions for ILS installation have been stipulated by the administration. “Our plans for a nine-foot, deer- proof fence had to be clear by FAA. The plan they approved requires that the fence be moved further away from the recom mended ILS runway.” The fence, a mesh-barbed wire barrier, would interfere with ILS signals. ILS TRANSMITS precise sig nals along the runway centerline and glide slope, on which a prop erly-equipped plane can adjust to land in bad weather that leaves only a 200-foot ceiling and one- half mile visibility. “The system will be installed at government expense,” Smith went on. ILS maintenance will also be a function of the airways facility sector. Quarters and office space for FAA operations are provided free to the U. S. government by A&M. The tower was transferred to A&M under borderline traffic conditions. Traffic quickly in creased to make it a necessity. In less than 10 years, Easterwood’s burgeoning business is calling for more sophisticated equip ment. A recently-passed airport zon ing ordinance became mandatory to protect the airport and its approaches. Flying is on a continuing up ward curve at the A& Mfacility. '."n -i £, v ^