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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.
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