Solid gold sunsets, pleasant warms days, and cool nights make Spring and Fall weather almost perfect. It is home for good hearted, hard working, honest people, the world's best barbecue, and the blues. Largely perceived as urban, its cities and suburbs are often expensive places to live and work, yet they also offer easy access to other metropolitan advantages, as well as to more rural areas with mountains, beaches and streams. Ethnic and racial diversity are commonplace in the Mid Atlantic states. It contains 60 control towers and radar approaches, along with four en route centers.
Facilities are the crossroads for traffic moving coast to coast and north to south.
These integral states to air traffic experience a robust, expanding economy which is leading to a significant growth in air cargo operations. This change to a full time, 24-hour system has an impact on the system by placing additional demands for services and personnel. The geographical area of the facilities ranges from the Rockies in the Western Dakotas, across the Great Plains of the Eastern Dakotas and Minnesota, to the states surrounding the Great Lakes and out to the Adirondack foothills of Eastern Ohio. The diversity of the region is rich in history, culture and ethnic makeup. Cities and villages range from small outlying hamlets to farmlands and to some of the largest and most expensive areas in the nation.