Airport panel OKs terminal pact but questions remote tower’s future

LOVELAND — Members of the Northern Colorado Regional Airport’s governing board endorsed spending money on a new terminal Thursday but voiced their mounting impatience over when — or if — the experimental remote control tower at the airport will ever get approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.

“I think we’re all getting tired of dating,” said commission chair Don Overcash. “We’d like to get married.”

The FAA has been planning and testing the virtual tower for several years and recently issued a stop-work order because of new visibility standards — three miles instead of two — and the issues surrounding the nation’s…