Updates about Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (NWFBIA)

[GoodWitch58]

does anyone know where Vicksburg is.....

 

[Em]

I just want to know if they will be serving good tasting hot dogs. Airport hotdogs are some of my favorites.

 

[Will B]

Does anyone know about the flight paths for the new airport? What I am trying to figure out is....will Freeport get noise?

I'm not saying Freeport won't, but it shouldn't. The patterns will be pretty tight to the airport...about 5 miles typically. It's a north / south runway which takes Freeport mostly out of the picture.

 

[GoodWitch58]

I just want to know if they will be serving good tasting hot dogs. Airport hotdogs are some of my favorites.

Yuk...do you know how unhealthy those are?

 

[Will B]

Yuk...do you know how unhealthy those are?

Sometimes that just doesn't enter the equation!

 

[Kurt]

Less Than One Month Till Opening! — The New ECP

With just a month left before the opening of the Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport, officials are scurrying to meet federal agency deadlines, and they might be excused for being a bit nervous.
A lot is riding on the airport opening on time, from airline schedules, to passenger vacation and business plans, to a public perception of the Airport Authority board’s competence. But Jeff Dealy of KBR, program manager for the relocation project, is keeping his cool…
…Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials were at the airport this week, including an inspector from Atlanta, making sure the airport meets requirements for commercial service certification, airport executive director Randy Curtis said. These inspections were periodic at the old regional airport, but the new international airport near West Bay “is starting from scratch,” Curtis said.
The inspections included checks of safety issues, lighting, emergency plans, fencing, taxiway markings and the dirt drop-off around the 10,000-foot runway, Dealy said.
“The preliminary airfield inspection went well,” he said. “That’s looking good.”
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[Kurt]

As May 23 nears, are we ready for a new airport? | new, airport, panama - News - The News Herald

Panama City attorney William Harrison has a troubling vision. He likens the scenario of opening a new international airport, the first in the country since Sept. 11, 2001, to preparing for a hurricane. You don’t really know what it’s like until you experience it.
“All of a sudden we have hundreds of thousands of people looking for something to do, in volumes that we have never seen before,” said Harrison...

 

[Davis Properties]

Updated "virtual tour" of New PC Airport

As May 23 nears, are we ready for a new airport? | new, airport, panama - News - The News Herald

With just 26 days remaining, crews are working to put the finishing touches on the new airport. Thanks to the News Herald for this updated virtual tour. News | Davis Properties, Emerald Coast Real Estate

 

[Uncle Timmy]

Does anyone know about the flight paths for the new airport? What I am trying to figure out is....will Freeport get noise?

My understanding is that because of restricted military airspace, most flights will be bound to a fairly narrow north and south corridor out of the new airport. Shouldn't impact Freeport or south Walton.

I remember someone posting a map once, showing the unrestricted airspace -maybe they will repost.

 

[swantree]

we were out on a boat south of Panama city the other day and watching a commercial jet with limited markings make runs north toward the airport and then pull up and come around and do it all over again? each time it would put down it's landing gear and then swing way out over the gulf and come back round. I kept thinking that all those golfers in Bay Point will be pissed off pretty fast!
if i was a betting man they are trying to see when/where the jets have to be on their flight path for landing procedure? Dry Runs on the runways possibly?