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Originally Posted by shakman
It is good to hear that these smaller airports have their own names. It gives a sense of identity towards their respective area. Do private jets frequent South Valley and Tooele Valley? Do both airports have night time VFR capabilities?
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South Valley is used by mostly privately owned prop aircraft and helicopters. Tooele is not as busy and is mostly used by prop aircraft. People who own or charter jets use SLC Int'l for the most part because it has the nicer FBO terminals and is better equipped. South Valley gets some smaller private jets, just not nearly as often. It is pretty rare to see jets in Tooele, but they do pop in every once in a while. Provo and Ogden airports are pretty busy with jet traffic and have nice facilites. There is also an airport in Woods Cross which is pretty small but still busy with smaller aircraft. The airport in Heber City is pretty busy too and gets a lot of private jets in the heavy tourism seasons.
South Valley only has a GPS approach, so jets wanting to land there when the visibility drops below 2-3 miles are forced to land elsewhere. Tooele got an ILS approach last year, so they are a better low-visibility airport but I haven't really seen any increase in operations there because of it. It is mostly just used by pilots to practice ILS approaches.
All the airports are fine for night-time ops.