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The civilian side of the airport charges an amount per head for people to land at Williamtown. If they added 50 cents per head, this would bring in between $500,000 and $750,000 per annum – an adequate amount to man a Class D tower during airline operations.
simply a traffic information service between IFR and VFR
Based on those figures Dick, Why not provide a CAGRO for RPT ops? The hours could be flexible and at a fraction of the cost of a class D tower yet still provide the level of traffic information you want. For example, it costs around $200,000 per annum for the service 11 hours per day 7 days a week - and obviously no where near these hours would be required at Willy. Seems like a much more cost effective solution to me.