![]() Remote-tower developer Saab, the town of Leesburg and state nonprofit organization Virginia SATSLab launched the remote tower system at JYO in 2014 it became the first project under the FAA’s Remote Tower Pilot Program. Remote Tower Launch Project The remote tower system at JYO was the first project of the FAA's Remote Tower Pilot Program. ![]() There’s one in use in Key West right now I think their tower was damaged by a hurricane.” Temporary towers like this are not unusual. Controllers “can see the run-up areas, they can see the runway thresholds and the hold-short points. “It’s fairly close to the taxiway,” Coffman said. The low-slung mobile tower is located airside of the terminal building, which is situated at midfield and east of the airport’s single, 5,500-ft. “The biggest message our air traffic controllers have gotten out to the public is that need to be aware of other aircraft around them because our control tower won’t have radar.” “The remote tower currently has a radar display the mobile tower will not,” said Airport Director Scott Coffman. The mobile tower will operate from 8 a.m. They will provide takeoff and landing guidance at the airport pilots flying under instrument flight rules must coordinate arrivals and departures with the Potomac Tracon. The Leesburg Town Council approved a first, $270,000 outlay for the new tower on June 13 in anticipation of eventually being reimbursed through grants for what could be a $10 million project, the Loudoun Times-Mirror reported.Īs with the remote tower center, which was located at a nearby county-owned office building, the mobile tower is staffed by controllers employed by Oklahoma City-based Robinson Aviation through the FAA’s Contract Tower Program. The airport expects the mobile platform-a tower cab with radios and weather sensors mounted on a trailer-will stay in place until 2028 when the town hopes to erect a permanent ATC tower. Town-owned JYO is designated as a reliever airport for Washington Dulles and lays claim to being the second busiest general aviation airport in Virginia. northwest of the nation’s capital, expected to begin operating the mobile tower by June 22 after transferring “shout line” communications that had connected the remote tower operating center with the FAA’s Potomac Consolidated Terminal Radar Approach Control (Tracon) and Washington Dulles International Airport tower facilities. Managers at Leesburg Executive Airport (JYO), located 35 mi. LEESBURG, Virginia – The suburban Washington airport that has served as a testbed for the FAA’s remote tower program will rely on a mobile air traffic control platform for the next few years now that the agency has canceled the testing effort.
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