Aviation Conspiracy: Class War Over Santa Monica Airport Pollution!!!
Bill Mulcahy
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Quote of the Week: "our safety is endangered for these incredibly rich
people who use this airport as a playground" Nina Menkes -- a neighbor of
the Santa Monica airport"
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Class War Over Santa Monica Airport Pollution!!!
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As Bill Sees It: (Editorial): Santa Monica Airport A Good Example Of
Aviation Gone Mad!!! When I saw a aerial picture of Santa Monica Airport
with homes completely surrounding the airport even I was surprised. Some of
the homes were practically touching the ends of the runways!!! Apparently
this airport is heavily used by the "rich and famous" who couldn't care less
about the "little people" who are assaulted daily by their private planes,
many of which are jets!!! According to a story this week city officials are
trying to stop this outrage. You can be sure which side the FAA aviation
"promoters" are on in this kind of battle, and it isn't the homeowners. More
and more it is the airports old allies, local politicians, that are
demanding a stop to the endless airport expansion. This can only mean that
local people are becoming more powerful than the airport users. No doubt the
local politicians are more afraid of being thrown out of office than
pleasing the polluters.
O'Hare Expansion Plans Grounded? The airport's major carrier's are in deep
financial trouble and the city of Chicago has "temporarily" grounded plans
for a huge overhaul of terminals at O'Hare International Airport. However,
the city of Chicago has submitted plans to the FAA for environmental review.
New Jersey: New Radio Tower To Affect New York's LaGuardia Flights? If you
want to get rid of air traffic build a high tower that the planes have to
avoid. Could that be the strategy behind putting up a high tower in New
Jersey that would affect flights many miles away in Queens, New York? It
wouldn't surprise me. This new tower is supposed to replace the one that was
lost when the World Trade Center collapsed. Instead of working with New York
communities to form a united front against aviation, some New Jersey
communities have for years been coming up with plans that would decrease
overflights over New Jersey at the expense of New York City. They even use
FAAspeak terminology to label one vicious route change that sends planes
over heavily impacted Staten Island, as the "over water route." This is
because part of the flight route (see map below) goes over water. The
Aviation Cabal knows that they will never be defeated as long as they can
count on communities like New Jersey to try to reduce their pollution at the
expense of their neighbors.
United Airlines Bankruptcy To Kill O'hare Expansion Atrocity? At the middle
of this year, it looked as if Chicago was going to get the expansion it
wanted at O'Hare International Airport. Gov. George Ryan and Chicago Mayor
Richard M. Daley had reached an agreement that would turn O'Hare into an
airport with six east-west parallel runways. The legislation passed out of
the U.S. House of Representatives July 23 after it first failed to receive
the two-thirds vote it needed to pass as fast-track legislation the week
before. But it never made it past the U.S. Senate. The plan that looked like
it was done was stuck on the floor of the Senate. Legislation it was written
into never even came up for a vote.
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/wn/12-26-02-
14566.html
Santa Monica Has Had It With Airport Pollution: City officials came a step
closer to eliminating large non-commercial jets from the Santa Monica
airport, Tuesday, December 10, when the City Council unanimously voted to go
forward with a new Aircraft Conformance Program (ACP) that is designed to
increase airport safety. With increased traffic and no safety areas, City
officials and residents worry that a prop plane or jet could skid out of
control and barrel down on a residential neighborhood. Some houses are just
250 feet from the raised edges of the runway!!!
http://www.smmirror.com/volume4/issue28/city_moves_to.asp
New Jersey: New Tower To Affect New York's LaGuardia Flights? Erecting a
mammoth 2,000-foot television antenna in Bayonne would require rerouting
planes at three area airports to ensure flight safety, according to a
preliminary analysis by the Federal Aviation Administration. The tower,
sought by area broadcasters to replace the one lost with the World Trade
Center, appears to pose potential aviation hazards that can be remedied,
according to the initial review, which the FAA is seeking to supplement
during a public comment period that runs until Jan. 2.
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1039864447149211.xml
Airline News You Might Not Have Heard In 2002: One of the most tumultuous
years in the airline industry is drawing to a close. It will be remembered
as the year when US Airways and United Airlines filed for bankruptcy
reorganization and when the federal government took control of airport
security. But a few other stories might be worth remembering, too. USA Today
reports on some of them such as: Air marshals bumped? Two federal air
marshals wrote a report saying an American Airlines employee told them that
the airline "was growing tired of air marshals taking high-revenue seats"
and refused to let them sit near the cockpit on a Feb. 20 flight from Palm
Springs, Calif., through Dallas to Charlotte. American officials denied it.
727 says goodbye: The Boeing 727, the three-engine jet that was one of the
most popular planes ever, was retired from United and American fleets.
Northwest and Delta will retire their 727s next year. More than 2,000 were
manufactured.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2002/2002-12-24-biz-travel.htm
New Jersey Airport Group Fights Airport Expansion: Currently PLANE
represents over 2,000 residents in 20 surrounding communities The FAA
neglected to conduct a required Environmental Assessment prior to permitting
Eastwind Airlines service. The Trenton-Mercer airport control tower closes
at 10:00pm but air traffic continues to arrive and depart from the airport
24 hours per day. http://www.aboutplane.com/
"Hooters" Owner Buys A Chartered Airlines: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - The
owner of the Hooters restaurant chain - famous for its hot wings and its
waitresses' outfits - has acquired a small North Carolina charter airline in
hopes of taking his company name to the skies. Hooters of America chairman
Robert H. Brooks said Thursday he had bought Pace Airlines, a division of
Piedmont Hawthorne Aviation, and intended to establish a charter air service
called Hooters Air that would provide leisure travel services for the golf
industry to serve Myrtle Beach, S.C., as a prime destination.
http://site.pga.com/Newsline/Industry_News/industrynews_detail.cfm?ID=3301
Another Pilot Suspended After Failing Drunk Test: Delta has suspended pilot
Gary Schroeder after a test allegedly showed he had alcohol in his system.
The test was done after Schroeder was taken off a flight at the airport in
Norfolk, Virginia yesterday. Officials say baggage screeners had smelled
alcohol on the pilot's breath when he arrived to co-pilot a Delta flight to
Cincinnati. http://home.abc28.com/Global/story.asp?S=1063277
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E1075110,00.html
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Aviation News Stories
O'Hare plan goes to FAA
By The Associated Press
CHICAGO -- Mayor Richard Daley submitted his expansion plan for O'Hare
International Airport for federal review Monday, saying the time is right
even if airlines and the economy are slumping.
Daley said the $6.6 billion plan he submitted to the Federal Aviation
Administration calls for new runway construction beginning in 2004, and he
said Chicago could lose its FAA approval is required before the expansion
plan can be carried out.
"We have to think long-term," Daley said. "If we didn't think long-term, we
would have given up on Midway Airport in 1991, when Midway Airlines went out
of business."
The mayor noted that Southwest Airlines and ATA have nearly doubled the
flights at the city's second airport, Midway, after that airport's major
client folded.
The mayor's action Monday is the first time the mayor has submitted his plan
for official FAA review. The mayor previously tried to push his plan through
Congress to guarantee construction, but that effort failed in the Senate.
Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, R-Illinois, blocked that Senate proposal and
criticized Daley for pushing expansion in difficult economic times.
Fitzgerald also has said he believes building a third airport would be safer
and have more economic benefits.
Daley predicted the expansion of O'Hare would create 195,000 jobs, partly by
boosting the efficiency of air shipping from Chicago.
The O'Hare plan includes a parallel runway configuration meant to cut delays
when planes wait their turn on crisscrossed landing strips.
Two new features in the plan are proposals for a new connection to O'Hare
from the Metra commuter rail service and a western highway bypass that would
run across the western edge of the airport on airport property to help
connect the existing tollways Interstate 90 and Interstate 294 should the
state of Illinois want to build the bypass.
The plan also calls for a new western terminal which would also have access
to the Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line rapid transit service.
The FAA has begun an environmental study of the expansion and is expected to
review the plan for more than a year.
Suburban leaders of the project's opposition had no immediate comment.
Bensenville interim village manager Jim Johnson said village officials would
review the latest plan before commenting. Bensenville is next to O'Hare and
has rallied opposition and pushed for a third airport in south suburban
Peotone to spread the disturbance.
United Airlines, O'Hare's longtime leading tenant, welcomed the mayor's
submission even while trying to reorganize in bankruptcy.
"It's a long-term project. The construction will span 10, 12, 15 years, and
our intention is to emerge from bankruptcy in 18 months and shoulder our
burden," United spokesman Joe Hopkins said.
American Airlines also supported the mayor.
"Despite the financial challenges facing the airline industry, the need
remains for the O'Hare modernization program," the airline said in a written
statement. "As American has maintained for more than a decade, O'Hare's
airfield configuration is outdated and needs to be modernized."
Daley said the city could issue bonds late next year to pay for
construction. He said it's too early to tell whether the city will pay more
of the tab to pick up the slack to the airlines.
Chicago business leaders flanked the mayor as he announced the plan's
submittal Monday.
"This is a marathon, not a sprint," Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
President Jerry Roper said. "Our country has gone through recessions before
and we've come back stronger."
Daley said the major additions to the plan that he and Gov. George Ryan
agreed to in 2001 are the access on airport land for a western bypass and
access for a Metra connection to O'Hare.
Orval Fairbairn
"Bill Mulcahy" <wmul...@hvc.rr.com> scribbled:
> The graphic (website) version of this newsletter can be accessed at:
> http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/newsletter200.htm
>
> Quote of the Week: "our safety is endangered for these incredibly rich
> people who use this airport as a playground" Nina Menkes -- a neighbor of
> the Santa Monica airport"
Rich? Most of us are middle-class people, who use airplanes as
transportation and enjoyment, just like automobiles. You can buy a plane
for less than a RV.
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> Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter
> #200..........................................December 27, 2002 Past
> newsletters can be accessed at:
> http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm Affiliated with, but not a
> publication of, the U.S. Citizen's Aviation Watch http://www.us-caw.org/
>
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> Class War Over Santa Monica Airport Pollution!!!
>
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> As Bill Sees It: (Editorial): Santa Monica Airport A Good Example Of
> Aviation Gone Mad!!! When I saw a aerial picture of Santa Monica Airport
> with homes completely surrounding the airport even I was surprised. Some of
> the homes were practically touching the ends of the runways!!! Apparently
> this airport is heavily used by the "rich and famous" who couldn't care less
> about the "little people" who are assaulted daily by their private planes,
> many of which are jets!!! According to a story this week city officials are
> trying to stop this outrage. You can be sure which side the FAA aviation
> "promoters" are on in this kind of battle, and it isn't the homeowners. More
> and more it is the airports old allies, local politicians, that are
> demanding a stop to the endless airport expansion. This can only mean that
> local people are becoming more powerful than the airport users. No doubt the
> local politicians are more afraid of being thrown out of office than
> pleasing the polluters.
> Santa Monica Has Had It With Airport Pollution: City officials came a step
> closer to eliminating large non-commercial jets from the Santa Monica
> airport, Tuesday, December 10, when the City Council unanimously voted to go
> forward with a new Aircraft Conformance Program (ACP) that is designed to
> increase airport safety. With increased traffic and no safety areas, City
> officials and residents worry that a prop plane or jet could skid out of
> control and barrel down on a residential neighborhood. Some houses are just
> 250 feet from the raised edges of the runway!!!
> http://www.smmirror.com/volume4/issue28/city_moves_to.asp
Once again, Bill gets it WRONG! It was not the airport which built homes
up to its borders, but politicians, caving in to the pressures from
developers, who let those homes be built, posing a danger to everybody!
Land developers are a threat to the populace, building on every square
foot of land that should never be built upon -- airport
approach/departure zones, swamps, earthquake-hazardous landfill, toxic
waste dumps, etc.
Bill, please place the blame where it belongs -- planning/zoning boards,
politicians and developers, not airports, which are victims of the above
bad policies, as much as the stupid folks who bought the homes from the
shady developers.
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Tom Mosher
"Orval Fairbairn" <orfairbairn...@earthjunk.net> wrote in message
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> In article <tIiP9.30051$eq2.6...@twister.nyroc.rr.com>,
> "Bill Mulcahy" <wmul...@hvc.rr.com> scribbled:
>
> > The graphic (website) version of this newsletter can be accessed at:
> > http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/newsletter200.htm
> >
> > Quote of the Week: "our safety is endangered for these incredibly rich
> > people who use this airport as a playground" Nina Menkes -- a neighbor
of
> > the Santa Monica airport"
>
> Rich? Most of us are middle-class people, who use airplanes as
> transportation and enjoyment, just like automobiles. You can buy a plane
> for less than a RV.
>
>
only middle-class (mid-5 figure income).
Tom Mosher
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I would hardly call Santa Monica Airport a "playground of the rich".
Also, I would bet you that the airport pre-dates most of the homes around
the airport. Blame the idiots who developed those houses and the jerks that
bought them realizing that there was an airport right next door.
Tom Mosher
Captain Wubba
some *serious* money that the airport was there first. I have seen
several of these 'debates', with people whining about how the airport
has been infringing on the quality of their life. We had one of these
at my home airport, when some neighbors in $400,000 new homes that
were built 3/4s of a mile from our airport were moaning about the
noise the airplanes make. The airport had been located on the exact
spot since 1930. Airports are usually located in places where land is
cheap, and there is plenty of it. Then what happens is that people see
the cheap land that attracted the airport, and decide to build homes
*near an existing airport*.
Bill, it is astonishingly simple. Don't like airport noise? Don't buy
a home near an airport. When I bought my home, I passed up several
cheaper homes because I didn't like what was near them. If the people
buying them chose to accept the economic incentive caused by the fact
that these homes were near highways, then the buyer has *chosen to
accept the noise*. These people buy homes near an airport. Any
third-grader knows airplanes make noise. If you dont' want the noise,
don't but a home near an airport. Why on earth is this a difficult
concept?
Angelo Campanella
> accept the noise*. These people buy homes near an airport. Any
> third-grader knows airplanes make noise. If you dont' want the noise,
> don't but at home near an airport. Why on earth is this a difficult
> concept?
I think you have raised a critically important question. We must pursue this
point here and now. It is inherent common sense that a home buyer uses
discretion in selecting the location of his "crib". Therefore a lot of the
complaining we have herd for decades is in part a result of bad judgment in
part. Now, I realize that it is impossible to avoid some bad decisions
throughout life so that a only a small percentage of the population will be in
this category. The point to pursue is development of remedies to this situation.
Given that cities and other owners of airports derive economic benefit from full
operation of airports, it is incumbent on them (in my opinion) to aid these
unfortunate individuals in securing a "remedy". At this late date, the remedy is
less and less likely to include exclusion of aircraft of average noise emission.
That, too is only common sense.
What has been glaringly missing in all this dialogue has been, and still is, that
the complaining individuals be given administrative and financial assistance at
relocating their place of residence to a quieter environs. There is no doubt
that property values will diminish to some extent around airports, but isn't
that to be expected in any circumstance where environs are compromised? There is
no doubt in my mind that the percentage value diminishment will be less that
many predict around airports, since the homes will otherwise be quite
inhabitable, and there re those that will cherish such proximity to transportation.
Preventative measures to avoid persons buying homes where the environment will
not suit them also has been rarely discussed, but that indeed is yet another
part of the "solution".
Let's get real here and get some discussion going in this area.
Angelo Campanella
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"I have simply studied carefully whatever I've undertaken, and tried to hold a
reserve that would carry me through." - Charles A. Lindbergh.
Hans van Dongen
Over here in Holland, the government has a simple solution for airport-related
noise issues: The largest airport, Schiphol, is situated near the largest city,
Amsterdam. Both grow, and it's a small densely populated country,so there's not
much room to move either the airport or the city, and both are important,
economically - the airport being the life-line of the country, vested interests
etc...
What the relevant authorities do when aircraft noise exceeds acceptable levels
is to change the the way in which noise measurements are interpreted, and if
that fails even abandon physical measurements altogether, and rely solely on
statistics to come up with "acceptable" noise levels in domestic areas , to a
point where people who have lived in their house for thirty years and can't
sleep because of the noise are being told that because the models predict X dB,
it can't be noise they're experiencing.
The commision for airfield noise even resigned because of the govt's
unwillingness to accept physical measurements.
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Hans van Dongen
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We didn't plan it that way, but it is."
Eric Desart
I'm not from the Netherlands, but I'm a neighboring Belgian (also Dutch).
While knowing a bit about those Shiphol problems, I feel to have to defend my
Netherlands neighbors here.
It's true you are an extreme dense populated country, giving little room for
solutions.
At the other hand your message gives the impression that the Netherlands
government just do as they like.
The Netherlands are extremely sensitive to noise related problems and invest
lots.
For every acoustician we have you have ten (even when calculated per head of the
population).
Almost every small community has an environmental responsible required to follow
post-graduate acoustic education at the expense of your government.
Just reacted on a message in a Dutch group where people had trouble with
'suskasten' (don't know English word) related to home insulation projects,
directly related to Schiphol, organized and paid for by your government.
Best regards
Eric
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