Nice try, Mother Russia!

Great advice! Thanks.

Vett with drag slicks is the optimal winter car.

Make sure to buy up abot 2000 acres of forest land. Clear cut it and build 2 million dollar mansions on 7 acre lots. Vermonters will love that

My town is littered with ticks. This sucks.

My husband and I have been seriously talking about moving to Alaska 😕

Nope, problem is there is only one hallway that can connect the north and south terminal and that hallway includes the old observation tower. Rerouting the hallway would require a new hallway going through what is currently a closed restaurant space turned into storage, a break room and some offices. It would be a poor use of space and a waste of money. BTV is a bizarre hodgepodge of additions and none of them make a lot of sense, for example a passenger walking down the hallway toward the north terminal has to pass through an unmarked doorway and immediately go left through another unmarked doorway to enter the north concourse by gate 8. there are plans to modernize the airport and hopefully the modernization project will remove some of the jank.

The old observation tower is only accessible after security, that hallway is the only way to route passengers to the north terminal. If you’re familiar with the layout of the building there would be no simple nor inexpensive fix.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, I love the people that think they own Class IV roads.

The best place to watch them is from the top floor of the parking garage on the airport. They takeoff around 9:30am Tuesday - Friday and return about 1 - 1.5 hours later. They also takeoff around 1pm and return 1 - 1.5 hours later. If it’s bad weather though they don’t usually fly.

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That's a great spot to see them landing from, but they tend to take off in the other direction.

There was nothing better as a kid then getting to go to Toys R Us then running outside to see the F16s fly over.

The active runway (15 taking off over Williston, or 33 taking off over Winooski) depends on the wind; you can try listening to the BTV ATIS feed which will list what is the current active runway - https://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=kbtv

As for days/times, typically Tuesday through Friday, sometime after 9am (but not always).

Bummer

When I lived in Richmond that was exactly the same, every time I had a meeting they would fly over.

When I was a kid in Alabama you could buy a stick of sugarcane for a nickel at the store and chew on it all afternoon - poor kid's candy.

I flew last week and even with new security it’s beyond where the public can go without boarding pass

Nope, you have to go through security to get in there now!

I can't give a good place but can say they typically take off on the main runway headed east, usually sometimes shortly after 9am on weekdays. Usually it's 9:10-9:20.

Somewhere 3/4 of the way down the runway would be good, since they're well off the ground by the end of the runway.

https://preview.redd.it/wns4kpu5iyaa1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=94d2a5d8981e4949f36d707668bd580263365668

Over head post card of Newport from 1908

Maybe so. I've never been up there, so I'm not really familiar with where the observation deck is.

This article does mention them tearing down the upstairs security checkpoint and renovating that area.

https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/new-wing-opens-at-btv-liquids-and-laptops-stay-in-your-bag/Content?oid=36688130

I couldn't find anything more recent

Yeah

Where in newport was the rail junction/ station? Is it Poulins?

Tailgate in the old pizza putt parking lot for a day. You’ll see them

Well if you want to initiate the process of seizing the large tracts of land that are vacant in the state, cutting them, and subdividing them into suburbia, then I guess that’s an idea to fix the problem. I’m more of the mind that Vermont is beautiful BECAUSE it’s not Massachusetts or New York.