Type of airport.	Uncontrolled Airport	Controlled Airport (small)	Controlled Airport (Large)
Number in Canada (approximately)	2500	35	8
Example	Steinbach South	St Andrews	Winnipeg International
Average time to taxi	2 minutes X 2 (in and out)	5 minutes X 2 (in and out)	10 minutes X 2 (in and out)
Average time/distance to practice area	Practice area surrounds airport (0 miles)	10 minute flight    X 2 ways (15 miles)	20 minute flight  X 2 ways (25 miles)
Size of practice area	Defined but not limited to	10 X 10 miles
Radio Experience	Pilot to Pilot.  (Pilot decision making.) Flight Service Station Terminal Airspace 3 Controlled airports within 30 minutes	Controllers to Pilot (Pilots follow all orders.) Ground, Tower Flight Service Station Terminal Airspace
Type of traffic	Students, Air Taxi airplanes and some private traffic	Students,  Air Taxi airplanes and private traffic	Few Students (except you), Air Taxi, Commuter, and  Air Lines
Terminal Airspace	2000 feet above airport	5 miles and 1500 feet above airport	10 miles and 1500 feet above airport
Runway	1 runway. 3000 ft X 100 wide. with 25ft paved center. Grass, Gravel, Pavement Crosswinds will happen	3 runways. 3000 X100 ft Few Crosswinds	3 runways. 11,000 X 200 ft Few Crosswinds. Hard to miss.
Average time for Circuits	4 minutes	8 minutes	Not permitted. Must fly 10 minutes to St. Andrews
Priority	School owned airport. 100% priority for school airplanes	First come first serve.	Traffic Management  Training aircraft will be made to circle, deviate,  vectored, or ordered down. No priority.
Time to local controlled airports by training aircraft.	Winnipeg 20 minutes St Andrews 25 minutes Portage 30 minutes Grand Forks 50 minutes	Winnipeg 10 minutes St Andrews 0 minutes Portage 25 minutes Grand Forks 75 minutes	Winnipeg 0 minutes St Andrews 10 minutes Portage 20 minutes Grand Forks 70 minutes
Drive from  St. Vital ,Winnipeg	35 minutes  highway driving	35 minutes city driving	25 minutes  downtown driving
Heated hanger storage	Yes	Cold Storage	Outside (very expensive)
Aircraft parking	Inexpensive	Expensive	Very Expensive
Noise Sensitive areas	None	Yes	Yes
Transponder Required	No	No	Yes
Small aircraft maintenance on airport	Yes	Yes	Yes
No radio experience	Yes	No	No
Owners/Operator	Harv's Air (proudly)	St. Andrews Municipality (reluctantly)	Winnipeg Airport Authority (small airplane?)
Future landing/handling fees	No	Maybe Airport is losing money	Maybe Airport is losing money
Distance to USA	35 miles	70 miles	60 miles
Customs	No	No	Yes (Canpass)
Flight Plan required	No	No	45 min prior to flight
Minimum lesson time possible	.2 of an hour	??	With 10 minutes of taxing and a 15 minute commute (both in and out) to the practice area, we're not sure.
Emphasis of teaching	Flying	Talking-Flying	Talking-Flying
Altitude/Time of a circuit Number of takeoff & Landings in an hour	700 above ground 4-5 minutes per circuit 12 in an hour	900 above ground 7 minutes per circuit 8-9 in an hour	1300 above ground  10 minutes per circuit 6 in an hour
Average time to solo at airport	15 hours	20 hours	Unknown, accounting for delays likely twice as long