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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That doesn’t mean anything. You can land at an airport without ATC. You can fly VFR. It’s unusual for ATP because, well, it severely limits when and where you can fly. Doesn’t mean it’s impossible. And if it’s a center and not an individual airport tower, you can probably fly IFR and cancel IFR when you get close to the airport and land under VFR.

You’ll still need fire trucks and such, but that shouldn’t be federal to my knowledge.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Big commercial airlines are not going to do that. Sure, general aviation can. That doesn't matter for the parts of the system that affect the stock market.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There was a cargo plane (747? 737?) that flew VFR. It’s not impossible but would greatly reduce the rate of arrivals/departures.

    It’s kind of unprecedented at where we are headed. I wouldn’t expect them to do this normally, but desperate times may lead to desperate measures. We’ll see (even though I don’t think air travel is a need)

    If the airlines industry crashes though, our economy is royally fucked though so

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Large commercial airlines already fly to untowered airports. It’s not incredibly common, but it does happen.

    If as others have said, it massively reduces the number of flights that can be handled at once; you almost certainly won’t see parallel landings at an uncontrolled airport, for example. But it wouldn’t completely stop air travel.

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