Absolutely **NOT** closed for the rest of the week. I told the
controllers not to pancake any more jets across two taxiways and we'll
be wide open for business, at least until the rain forecast for Friday
night.

We are DYING to get more GA planes in here, if for no other reason than
I'm tired of the constant ribbing from Fondy and Appleton.

We've been working all day on getting a north grass taxiway usable;
having a single taxiway, Bravo, open for three-way traffic at every
intersection without backing traffic up onto the runway (the
intersections are about two planes deep) has proven to be a much less
safe operation than we'd like. And that was with GA closed. Throw a
confused pilot into the mix who taxis a Cirrus right off the end of 27
because he never heard anyone tell him to exit the runway and things
turn into a snarl quick anyway. Add in the GA traffic, considering its
destination location, and we're bending planes. As I always say around
here, "Salus super alias omnes."

Tomorrow morning, when we have twy Papa and the paved ditch available,
twy Alpha reconfigured back to 36R, Bravo and a north grass taxiway
open, and a new capacity for two-way taxi traffic to/from the North 40
campground, everything changes for the better in a big way - in terms
of both safety and overall metal throughput.

Most of that probably doesn't make much sense and is boring as all
get-out, but it's the best exposition of what and why I can offer.
Open the NOTAM to page 13, and it will make some sense if you're an
airport geek.

Reports from our air ops meetings are also being put onto the "Site
Conditions Blog" or whatever it's called at the upper right of
airventure.org.

Cheers,