On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 15:43:04 -0400, "Peter L. Berghold"
<xxxxxx@berghold.net> wrote:

>In some writing I was doing I am describing a portion of star port
>where instead of large corporation berthing this area is where non-
>corporate ships craft and smaller starships capable of making landfall
>would be berthed.  This would be every type of berthing from a piece of
>tarmack to a walled off area with a lockable gate (hatch?) registered
>to the craft's owner. 
>
>In today's terms that would be (at least in my mind) the General
>Aviation section of an airport. 
>
>Anybody have a word that is an equivalent that they use for such?
> Right now in the story I'm writing I'm using General Aviation as a
>placehodler until I find a better term.

I would call this "Unscheduled Services", analogously to AOPA's definition
of GA. Given the way you've described it above, I'm assuming that you're in
the US (or Canada).

Someone else in the thread (Mr Rux) described his view of the various
classes of starport. I disagree somewhat; I've described my view in
"Extending the UWP: Starports" (Freelance Traveller, May 2013, p.4;
http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/expuwp/starports.html).

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