Sean, although I'm not a pilot, I am an enthusiast, and have spent a lot of time in the right-hand seat of Cessnas flying throughout Alaska. If it is any place that you can go to see aircraft, I'm all for it being mapped. What I'm against mapping is places that you cannot go to, because they are somebody's yard and/or farm, do not allow transient parking, and are used infrequently.juliansean wrote: If I am a private pilot and I search for an airport I want to go to a place where I can go see planes. Should I be removed from using Waze because I don't just search for our regional airports?
Sean
Yes, in some cases this may be a judgement call, perhaps indicated by the apparent level of use of the field, number of hangars and aircraft visible, if there are no other indicators such as google businesses. We could potentially do searches of the FAA database through airnav.com for private unattended fields with no services and no or few aircraft based at the field.
To address one of my concerns, perhaps we could have a naming standard so that private fields that are mapped have a distinct and uniform name, not including "airport" in the name. So when scrolling through the list of results, at least it's easier to identify true public airports.
"Private Airfield - Anderson Lake 0AK1"
"Private - Anderson Lake Airstrip 0AK1"
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