A tower-induced go-round

Jose wrote:
Locally created noise abatement procedures are fine when they simply
identify noise sensitive areas and ask pilots to avoid them. They can be
dangerous when they tell pilots where to fly in a way that appears
mandatory.

Not if everyone is following them, which is the whole point.


Having "everyone" is following local noise abatement procedures does not
make them safe.

Non sequitur.

Having one yahoo not following the same procedure as everyone else
no matter where the procedure comes from is not safe.

If the procedure itself is not safe, it needs to be changed.

This isn't rocket science.

The system is broken because a perfectly reasonable procedure is not
"official"

It's not always a perfectly reasonable procedure. Sometimes it's
downright dangerous.

Yeah, so what?

That just means that a specific procedure needs to be modified and
says absolutely nothing about the desirablity of following noise
abatement procedures in general.

There have been established ATC procedures that were changed because
they were deemed to be dangerous.

How would this be any different?

Look at the procedures for CCB:

http://www.cableairport.com/images/vfr24.gif
http://www.cableairport.com/images/vfr6.gif

See anything unsafe there?

Oh, I'm sure there are some idiotic and unsafe procedures out there
that need to be changed, but that is a totally different issue.


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Jim Pennino

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