Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
In addition in many modern Towers you cannot monitor the approach anyway ( too far away )
While a new tower at OPKC has been planned for several years, the current one (built in 1932) is atop the original terminal, not particularly high, and about 3/4 of the way down the runway from the 25 end (around 2.6 km from the 25L piano keys).