Legend has it that New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia arrived on a TWA flight to Newark Airport in New Jersey, looked at his ticket that said "New York" and demanded to be flown to New York. He was flown to Floyd Bennett field in New York and gave an impromptu press conference calling for New Yorkers to build a new airport in New York. The New York Municipal Field was opened on October 15, 1939 as the area's second airport. It was later named LaGuardia Airport after the man responsible for its construction. In 2007, LaGuardia handled 25.3 million passengers accounting for 23% of the passengers that travelled through the New York airports.
While small, LaGuardia is a TOUGH place to work. It only has two runways that intersect meaning every arrival or departure will cross the path of an arrival or departure. Hopefully, with the right spacing. In the TRACON, you'll be BUSY at LaGuardia. Sandwiched between Newark and Kennedy, everything going East out of Newark and everything West out of Kennedy will be thrown your way. At the same time, arrivals must follow a corridor only 6 nm wide and be slowed and descended to make the tight turns and avoid the Newark flows. It is a TOUGH place to work, but incredibly fun to work out. Your vectoring will be the crispest on VATSIM if you learn it at LaGuardia.
In order to take and utilize ANY training on this page at LaGuardia or its satellite airports, you must have completed the training Here and have received a checkout to work at non-Major facilities. Once you have completed this checkout, you may click the Levels below.
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