Congress sets the FAA budget,
The California DOT
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/planning/ae...file/index.php
also has a part to play.

Contact the FAA, your Congress and Senators, CalTrans, and
the AOPA about staffing and budget issues.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
some support
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm
See http://www.fija.org/ more about your rights and duties.


wrote in message
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| Last night I went out to CRQ to do my 90 day 3 night
takeoffs and landings ritual.
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| After the first trip around the pattern I was told that
they were not allowing any pattern work.
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| When I called the tower on the phone I got the following
explanation:
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| The FAA agreed upon minimum staffing level for CRQ is 12
controllers, they only have 8.
| The 8 are working 10 hour days, six days a week.
| Until they get some relief they ar not going to allow
patern work.
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| For those who don't know CRQ, it is a single runway but
it had over 200,000 operations last year.
| I've seen weekends when the pattern had more than 12
aircraft in it, with 5 more ready to go.
| I've also seen days where the tower just says, "we are
full do not enter my airspace come back in 15 minutes."
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| I don't want the weekend controller to be tired.
| We've already had one CRQ midair we don't need another
one.
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| I'm not sure what we should do about this, but wrting some
letters to the FAA? or to ?
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| It's been worse since the ILS died because the Jets used
to always use the ILS,
| last night on the radio I heard G-IV on left base for 24,
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| Paul
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