Cape Cod Airport Neighbors Sign On!!!

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"Skylune" wrote:

by Bushleague 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"
wrote:


by Bushleague 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:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/aviation/Pla...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.

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