MacArthur-Islip Airport To Keep Flight Departure System | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-04.14.25

Airborne-NextGen-04.15.25

AirborneUnlimited-04.16.25

Airborne-AffordableFliers-04.17.25

SunnFun-DayFour-04.03.25

Mon, Jan 28, 2008

MacArthur-Islip Airport To Keep Flight Departure System

FAA Won’t Move Equipment Away

The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to leave the Departure Control System at MacArthur-Islip Airport (ISP) on Long Island, NY.

As ANN reported last week, the FAA planned to move the computerized departure system from busy MacArthur Airport to the Morristown, NJ, airport, claiming such a move would make New York airspace more efficient overall.

Representative Steve Israel (D-Huntington) did not agree. He and local airport officials vowed to fight the move, legislatively if needed. "How do you justify taking equipment away from a commercial airport with 100 flights a day and giving it to a small private airport with no commercial flights?" Israel asked.

The FAA argued that Morristown needed the equipment because that airport had more destinations in common with other New York area airports, and more shared routes than MacArthur. The FAA had also said that the move would not have an adverse impact on Islip.

Islip officials did not agree, since their airport handles over three million commercial passengers each year, while Morristown has no commercial service at all.

Israel and Representative Tim Bishop (D-Southhampton) met with FAA Acting Administrator Robert "Bobby" Sturgell last Wednesday in Washington, D.C. to discuss the issue.

Within 48 hours, the FAA called and told officials the equipment would stay at MacArthur-Islip.

"I think they recognized it was a pretty poor move," said Bishop, adding that the equipment had been at the airport since 2002. "They certainly recognized our position -- that we should be protecting commercial aviation."

Bishop was not able to attend Saturday’s news conference, where Israel and local airport officials made the announcement.

Islip Town Supervisor Phil Nolan thanked the congressmen. "If not for their intercession, we would have lost this equipment," Nolan said. "We would have experienced more delays."

The departure spacing system calculates the most efficient route for each aircraft and automatically approves flights for departure.

Without the system, controllers would have to manually call the New York Air Traffic Control Center and receive approval for each departure, a far more time-consuming process.

FMI: www.macarthurairport.com

Advertisement

More News

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (04.18.25)

“The New York region is home to three of the world’s preeminent airports, serving upwards of 150 million passengers annually. But the drive from Manhattan to any of the>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (04.18.25): DETRESFA (Distress Phrase) [ICAO]

DETRESFA (Distress Phrase) [ICAO] The code word used to designate an emergency phase wherein there is reasonable certainty that an aircraft and its occupants are threatened by grav>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (04.18.25)

Aero Linx: The Cradle of Aviation Museum The Cradle of Aviation Museum is an aviation and spaceflight museum located in East Garden City, New York on Long Island to commemorate Lon>[...]

Airborne 04.14.25: H2-Powered R44, Oshkosh Organized Chaos, UAL School Sued

Also: Spirit CEO Resigns, ‘Mental Health in Aviation’, U-2 Dragon Lady, Elixir Delivers Unither Bioelectronics announced that its modified Robinson R44 helicopter made >[...]

Airborne Affordable Flyers 04.17.25: HKS Support Upgrade, Van's Tanks, eBristell

Also: 160-hp Carbon Cub UL, Flybox Avionics, Blackshape Aircraft, Scalebirds Update Light sport engine manufacturer HKS recently announced that it will be relocating its parts supp>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2025 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC