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by Orval Fairbairn o_r_fairbairn@[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 30, 2005 at
04:25 PM


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"Skylune" live-ski-or-die@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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by Bushleague Bushleague@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nov 29, 2005 at 05:39 PM


Beginning with Dan Wolf and Bill McGrath no dought. STN I'm not
familiar with?

Bush

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:55:22 -0500, "Skylune"
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by Bushleague Bushleague@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nov 29, 2005 at 04:33 PM


With the new tower at CCH (Cape Cod Hospital) the BMA is attempting to
adhere to FAR Part 77, obstructions to Navigation. Here's a link:
www.wsdot.wa.gov/aviation/Planning/FAR_Part77.pdf

Planning, it was a three hour course at Harvard.

Have a great one!

Thanks. I agree this seems to be a problem not of the airports
making.

This is a problem with uncoordinated planning. The rerouting of the
flight paths should have been anticipated by the hospital construction
consultants. Maybe it was and it was not in their scope of work. Now
comes another agency (the FAA) and says, "approaches now need to be
modified to comply with FARs."

What is missing? The community. Areas around the airport that will
now
experience increased small plane noise will have people who
understandably
will get upset. Some will fight. Some will join STN. Some will
write
letters to newpapers and politicians.

STN is an acronym for a group called "Stop the Noise," which is based
in
a
small town in north-central Massachusetts. This group has been
tussling
with various flight schools that have chosen to pick their community
for
acrobatic flight training. After years of fighting with the FAA, the
various flight schools, etc. about excessive noise, they have filed
suit
in state district court against individuals that continue to conduct
acrobatics over their home.

The FAA/AOPA alliance (in this case) tried to get the suit dismissed on
the grounds of federal pre-emption. The state judge disagreed, and
remanded the case to district court for trial. This is a real big one,
with national implications.

I think its also a case where a few pilots got ****ed when the group
started getting vocal, and retaliated by harrassing the people at STN
with
low flights. (The fliers obviously deny this, and claim the FAA has
"investigated" and found no violations of FARs.) Rather than seek
compromise, both sides have become radicalized, and then STN sued.
Details are on their web site.

Its interesting that there is another anti-GA noise group in the same
town
called "Plane Sense." They tried to negotiate with the pilots and
spread
acrobatic training around. Of course they have been completely
unsuccesful. One of the flight schools actually went so far as to
register their planes in the corporate name of "Plane Nonsense," a
smack
at Plane Sense and an insight into the mentality of owners of this
particular school.

Dan Wolf, and McGrath: who are these people?

In my experience, I have never encountered an "anti-noise" group which
was interested in anything but killing GA and GA airports, with perhaps
a few pilots in-between.

Very often, the attempts at "dialogue" are nothing but
intelligence-gathering efforts, designed to collect information to be
used against the GA people.

The STN people are particularly vicious in their lawsuit harassment
tactics and have sent several people into bankruptcy.

Wow. As the saying goes, "Just because you are paranoid does not mean
that you are not being followed."

"Killing GA"?? Maybe some groups have this goal, probably out of utter
frustration. Personally, I won't affiliate with (but I do communicate
with) any anti-noise groups at this point, partly because I have flown a
little, and I continue to sit in the right seat occassionally. I can see
the benefits (and fun) of recreational GA.

I also see the other side. I now live full time in an area that used to
be pretty quiet (occassional small plane noise) but now seems to be
directly beneath a busy GA flight path. It IS really, really annoying.

I think most of the anti-noise groups would be more reasonable if any
serious efforts are made to co-exist. But, when the airport is
unresponsive, and the FAA doesn't care, and pilots hide behind the FARs
and the FAA bureacracy to justify a lack of common courtesy, people will
get ****ED. If you drive people crazy long enough, some will fight back,
and hit where it hurts.


Unfortunately, many of the "anti-noise" groups are really fronts for
real estate developers who wish to acquire a nice, large, flat area of
land, cheaply, to do their thing -- everybody else be damned. This has
been the case in Concord, CA, Hawthorne, CA, Oceanside, CA, Atlantic
City, NJ and many other sites. All you have to do is look under the
carpet!

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