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This additional requirement may cause some owners. to move <br />outside the 30-mile radius. Question 9 of the survey requested <br />data on how this change might impact the system. Other survey <br />questions were related to the proposed replacement major air <br />carrier airport for Minneapolis-St. Paul and the proposed <br />addition of another reliever airport. <br />3. Findings <br />The surveys conducted as part of the inventory effort for the Regional <br />System Reliever Airports Study had response rates of 25 percent for the <br />Transient Pilot Survey and 45 percent for the Registered Aircraft Owners <br />Survey. These response rates provide a statistically valid sample for the <br />sturvey populations. The survey results are Summari~.d in the following <br />sections: <br />Transient Pilot Survey <br />The majority of the respondents to this survey were based, as <br />would be expected, at an airport outside the seven-county <br />region. Transient pilots typically come from somewhere <br />between 100 to 500 nautical miles outside the region. <br />The aircraft the respondents operate at Minneapolis-St. Paul <br />International Airport are almost evenly split between single- <br />engine piston, multiengine piston, multiengine turboprop, and <br />business jets weighing more than 12,500 pounds. Of these, the <br />multiengine pistonaircraft average the highest numberof annual <br />operations. <br />The pilotswere asked to indicate reasons for using Minneapolis- <br />St. Paul International. The reasons that were most important <br />to all aircraft owners were: passenger/owner requires it, 15 <br />minutes to area destination, and the presence of an instrument <br />landing system (IIS). Single-engine piston, multiengine <br />turboprop, and business jet (more than 12,500 pounds) aircraft <br />operators expressed that ground transportation was very <br />important. Connections with commercial airlines were very <br />important to all of these aircraft operators, except the business <br />jet operators. <br />The survey asked if transient operations at Minneapolis-St. Paul <br />International could be accommodated at a reliever airport in <br />the metropolitan area. Most of the respondents said yes they <br />could be accommodated elsewhere in the area. Of these, the <br />majority said they would use SG Paul Downtown <br />I-30 <br />