That's great! It never occurred to me that this whole problem is *because*
Moore AAF was closed down. It's a great suggestion for STN to get the
airspace made inaccessible to aerobatics like they want- reopen the
airfield, and put a few E-to-the ground instrument approaches in! Seems to
me the "No airlines/FedEx at Hanscom" crowd should be all over this, too.


"Jessie Carlson" wrote in message
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Jeremy Lew wrote:

I'm not defending the way these people are dealing with their issues,
but
the pratice area for the KBED-based flight school which is involved in
these
suits is 15-20 NM away from the airport. If that's "near", then it's
practically impossible to live in eastern Massachusetts without being
near
three or four airports. It would be entirely unreasonable for
prospective
house buyers to consider that small plane noise might be a problem in
this
area.

If anyone is interested, the practice area in question is NW of KBED, N
of
the Ft. Devens MOA.

Yes the ironic thing is that the Fort Devens airfield (Moore Army
Airfield,
KAYE) would have made a lovely airport, especially for cargo operations,
with
excellent adjacent Rail and Freeway connections. The locals made sure
this
never happened when the Army Base closed.

So now we have two large runways with X's all over them. (State police
use one
of the former runways for high speed driving training).

With Moore field closed, the local airspace is available for a training
area.