A recent survey conducted in the City of Naples and its surrounding Collier County showed overwhelming public support for the Naples Airport and strong opposition to its potential relocation.
Thank you, Amelia for bringing us a good news story. Keep up the good work.
Took a sec, but if you follow the link and then click the “Airport Information”, then you can find that this airport is in the state of Florida.
It is still a heavily noise restricted, even restricting getting fuel after 9:30pm.
Reasonable scrutiny considering a half dozen other cities named Naples.
Good lesson for anyone to pay attention to details and if writing for technical review to always try and avoid assumptions.
I think that’s reasonable for a small GA airport. Most FBOs close at night. They likely wouldn’t sell enough fuel to pay someone to sit there overnight.
Also the airport code is KAPF. I’m surprised the author didn’t give us that context. Some might think it’s referring to Naples, Italy.
That’s true, but that is not the reason for the fueling restriction at APF. That policy was enacted to keep jets from operating after 9:30pm due to noise restrictions. I have been at this airport many times and before this policy went into effect, late evening or night ops by jets was pretty common. As far as I know the FBO’s are still open, just are not allowed to dispense fuel after 9:30 pm.
I think context made it pretty clear that it was Naples, Florida. But then, perhaps some consideration could be given to those readers who aren’t very familiar with aviation or geography of large, southern states. Or to schoolchildren or those few semi-literate pilots.
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