Metropolitan Sytems Information Statement 1989

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If additional runway length is required, the survey asked what length is needed. The single -engine piston, multiengine piston, and multienging turboprop operators answered 4,000 to 5,000 feet; the majority o smess jet operators said somewhere between 5,000 and 7,000 feet.) Most of the respondents answered that no additional yeliever was needed to supplement the system's geographic coverage. f ihose that thought an additional reliever was needed indicated a need to the North,land some in the West of the Minneapolis -St. Paul area. The last question addressed the issue of a new air carrier airport in the area. It asked how this would impact trips to the Twin Cities. Of the responses, 36 percent said they would use a new major airport, while 30 percent said they would use a reliever. Those that answered they would use a reliever were asked which one they preferred. Downtown St. Paul received the largest percentage of responses and Flying Cloud the next. Overall, the survey indicated that the transient pilots use MSP an average of less than 10 operations a year. Most transient pilots use MSP mainly because their passengers required it. The annual operations reported by transient pilots responding to the survey, represent approximately 6 percent of total transient - related activity. Of those transient responding, almost half indicated that their operations could be transferred from MSP to one of the reliever airports, providing that adequate facilities were available at the reliever airports. (If this sample response is expanded to the entire population of transient operations, this would indicate that it may be possible to reduce transient general aviation activity at MSP by roughly 18,000 annual operations.) Registered Aircraft Owners Survey The majority of respondents to this survey based an aircraft inside the seven -county region. The largest percentage of these aircraft are based at an airport other than MSP or one of the seven designated relievers. Of those responding to the survey, 18.3 percent, based an aircraft at Flying Cloud; 16.7 percent were based at Anoka. These were the highest percentages reported for the reliever airports. The next question asked why they based their aircraft where they did. The overwhelming response was convenience to home or office. A similar response to the next question indicated registrants have no desire to relocate in the near future. The respondents were asked what could trigger a relocation. The two answers that received the greatest response were closure of the airport or a more convenient airport. Of those who were willing to move to another airport, most chose the next closest airport to their existing based airport. I-17