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St. Louis Lambert Intl: the template field, three parallels over the Mississippi. A steady shift to learn the board. Steady tier.
St. Louis metro KSUS St. LouisSpirit of St. Louis: St. Louis' business-aviation front door. Fractional jets, trainers, and transient GA share two close parallels beneath the Bravo. Busy tier.
KALN Alton / St. LouisSt. Louis Regional: the metro's northeast corporate reliever. West Star maintenance jets and local GA share two long crossing runways beside the Mississippi. Steady tier.
KBLV Belleville / MascoutahScott AFB / MidAmerica St. Louis: an Air Force mobility base and a civil terminal on one airfield. Tankers and transports share two far-spaced parallels with Allegiant, and now and then everything waits on a VIP movement. Busy tier.
KCPS St. LouisSt. Louis Downtown: the Mississippi-side business and training reliever. Corporate arrivals and a deep GA pattern share two close parallels and a short crosswind beneath the Bravo. Busy tier.
KMCI Kansas CityKansas City Intl: a Southwest focus city on the Missouri River bluffs. Two long parallels and a crosswind, with the Center's own metro traffic. Busy tier.
KICT WichitaWichita Eisenhower National: the Air Capital's Class C approach seat. Regional airline banks over a heavy Textron and Spirit factory bizjet base, with two parallels and a crosswind. Steady tier.
KTUL TulsaTulsa International: Green Country's Class C approach seat and American's world maintenance base. American-led regional banks over a corporate bizjet base, two parallels plus a crosswind, and the one published Tulsa arrival. Steady tier.
KSGF SpringfieldSpringfield-Branson National: two equally busy runways cross at the Ozarks' regional gateway. Airline and cargo jets share the Class C with a deep GA and training stream. Steady tier.
KJLN JoplinJoplin Regional: SkyWest regional jets cross a GA-majority tower, with two equal-length crossing runways and no published route structure. Steady tier.
KBBG BransonBranson: one precision runway cut into the Ozark hills, with resort-bound business traffic and GA but no current scheduled airline service. Steady tier.
KBMI Bloomington-NormalCentral Illinois Regional: regional jets, Allegiant leisure flights, FedEx cargo, and prairie GA share two crossing runways at Bloomington-Normal. Steady tier.
KPIA PeoriaGeneral Downing - Peoria International: Central Illinois' crossing-runway mix of regional jets, Allegiant, UPS, daily Guard Hercules traffic, and flight-school GA. Busy tier.
KTBN Fort Leonard WoodWaynesville-St. Robert Regional / Forney Field: Contour regional jets and Army traffic share one precision runway on the Fort Leonard Wood installation. Steady tier.
KSTJ St. JosephRosecrans Memorial: a Missouri River Guard field where Hercules tactical training and municipal GA share a long primary and a short assault-strip crosswind. Busy tier.
KFOE TopekaTopeka Regional: Forbes Field's 12,800-foot primary carries Guard tankers and transient military traffic over a mixed civil and GA operation. Busy tier.
KSLN SalinaSalina Regional: daily regional jets share a former Air Force runway complex with military transients, corporate traffic and a deep university training pattern. Busy tier.
KTOP TopekaPhilip Billard Municipal: Topeka's close-in municipal tower, where corporate arrivals and a deep GA pattern share two short crossing runways beside the Kansas River. Steady tier.
KMHK ManhattanManhattan Regional: daily American regional jets to Dallas and Chicago share a Kansas River tower with Fort Riley-adjacent GA and a short crosswind. Steady tier.
KHUT HutchinsonHutchinson Regional: three crossing runways and a GA-heavy corporate board beside the Arkansas River, with Wichita Approach working the outside airspace. Steady tier.
KGCK Garden CityGarden City Regional: two daily American departures share two crossing runways with western Kansas GA, corporate, cargo and military traffic. Steady tier.
KBEC WichitaBeech Factory: Beechcraft factory flying, corporate jets and extensive training share one long runway beneath Wichita Approach. Steady tier.
KRVS TulsaTulsa Riverside: Tulsa's busy GA reliever, with trainers and corporate jets working close parallels and a short crosswind runway. Busy tier.
KSWO StillwaterStillwater Regional: Oklahoma State training traffic and regional airline service share a long ILS runway with a crossing strip. Steady tier.
KWDG EnidEnid Woodring Regional: Vance military training dominates a long ILS runway, with civil GA and a short crosswind strip underneath. Busy tier.
KMDH Carbondale / MurphysboroSouthern Illinois: Southern Illinois' high-training tower. Student pattern work and business GA share three intersecting runways beside the Mississippi corridor. Steady tier.
KMWA MarionVeterans Airport of Southern Illinois: Southern Illinois' commercial gateway. Contour regional jets to Chicago share crossing runways with local and business GA. Steady tier.
Kansas City metro KMKC Kansas CityKansas City Downtown: downtown Kansas City's bizjet front door, on a peninsula inside a Missouri River bend. Fractional jets and GA share crossing runways under the metro's satellite arrivals. Steady tier.
KOJC OlatheJohnson County Executive: the metro's training strip, a single 4,097 ft runway on the Johnson County upland. Pattern work all day with a light-jet sliver, the gentlest seat in the KC trio. Steady tier.
KIXD GardnerNew Century AirCenter: the old Olathe naval air station, now the metro's southwest reliever. Training and transient GA on the crossing runways, bizjets on the 7,339 ft strip. Steady tier.
KCOU ColumbiaColumbia Regional: mid-Missouri contract tower. GA majority with a few daily regional jets to sequence in. Steady tier.
KJEF Jefferson CityJefferson City Memorial: a contract tower on the Missouri River. GA, bizjets, and a busy pattern; the runway is always yours. Steady tier.
KSPI SpringfieldAbraham Lincoln Capital: central-Illinois level-4 tower. Eagle RJs, Allegiant and Breeze over a prairie of GA and pattern traffic. Steady tier.
Louisville Muhammad Ali International: UPS Worldport freight banks and airline traffic share two parallels beside the Ohio, with Guard Hercules traffic mixed in. Heavy tier.
KATL Atlanta ZTL · Atlanta Center · brick startedHartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Intl: five parallels, a Delta fortress, the world's busiest. Heavy flows all day. Heavy tier.
KORD Chicago ZAU · Chicago Center · brick startedChicago O'Hare Intl: eight runways, six of them parallel, and two mega-hubs sharing one field. The most complex board in the game. Heavy tier.
KDEN Denver ZDV · Denver Center · brick startedDenver International: mile-high field, 16,000 ft of runway on the high plains. A busy six-runway hub. Heavy tier.
KSEA Seattle ZSE · Seattle Center · brick startedSeattle-Tacoma Intl: three parallels between Puget Sound and Lake Washington. A busy Alaska stronghold. Busy tier.
KPDX Portland ZSE · Seattle Center · brick startedPortland International: two Columbia River parallels carry an Alaska-led airline mix, with real Portland arrivals and departures feeding both east and west flows. Busy tier.
KLAS Las Vegas ZLA · Los Angeles Center · brick startedHarry Reid Intl: two pairs of parallels crossing on the valley floor. A Southwest stronghold that lands and departs across itself. Heavy tier.
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From small towered fields like Jefferson City and the Kansas City metro satellites up to hubs like St. Louis, Atlanta, Chicago, and Denver. Runways, waypoints, and procedures come out of published FAA data and onto a live radar scope.
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Every instruction gets a pilot readback, and the frequency chatters with check-ins and traffic, voiced right in your browser.
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Runway flows, wake-turbulence separation, handoffs, and in-flight emergencies: the same rules a real approach controller works.
Forty airports live, Center brick by Center brick: 33 of Kansas City Center's 33, plus Louisville, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Portland, and Las Vegas. More on the way.
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