New Airport Ordinance?

In Section 27 they claim that an FAA request was behind their action,
and then go on to declare this to be an "emergency" situation (which I
assume allowed for immediate enactment without comment or waiting
periods).

It states: "Because it is important to reduce risks of harm to persons
and property associated with Airport use as soon as possible due to
increasing Airport use in spring and summer, and because the FAA has
requested the Port to enact an ordinance regulating certain Airport
activities, therefore, an emergency is declared to exist. This
Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon passage."

It would be interesting to see exactly what the FAA requested
(assuming such a request exists).

Also, having never been there to see what operations used to be like,
it is hard to tell how limiting these new restrictions are. Were you
doing vehicle tow launches? Were you leaving gliders tied down in
restricted areas for more than 20 minutes as a matter of practice?
How will this change your operations?

Mike

We have been staging on the SE corner of the airport, about 80ft from
the edge of the runway. We have a perfect safety record and we blend
very well with the small amount of power traffic that we share our
public airport with. The main reason for whatever action the FAA
might have called for is that a grass runway was put in between the
main runway and the taxi way on the north side of the runway. The
port is now requiring the gliders to stage more than 1000ft up the
3000ft runway, which will greatly lower our margins for safety on
takeoff. We will either have to back taxi 1000+ feet back down the
only runway for every flight, tying up the active runway. or leave
1000 feet of runway behind us. Neither option is as good as the way
we have been safely operating for decades now. The requirement that
only one aircraft at a time is allowed on the taxi ways will be very
interesting during our fly-ins when many dozens of aircraft will want
to depart at the same time.

Boggs

Did you, perchance, let a large gopher snake loose in the airport
commission meeting?

I guess those that know me know the problem?...

That was fun, wasn't it?

Boggs
(Still having fun!)

On Jun 7, 11:22*pm, " wrote:
Did you, perchance, let a large gopher snake loose in the airport
commission meeting?

Absolutely fun. Nice snake. Kinda separated the townies from the
country folk.

Rock On, Gary!

On Jun 8, 10:10*pm, " wrote:
Absolutely fun. *Nice snake. *Kinda separated the townies from the
country folk.

Rock On, Gary!

I remember a snake being released at a glider safety meeting at the
Tonopah airport many years back.
Looks like "flying credit cards" aren't Gary's ONLY tricks...
Jay

Ah, I guess those that know me, know the problem?...

That was fun, wasn't it?

Boggs
(Still having too much fun!)

On Jun 7, 11:22*pm, " wrote:
Did you, perchance, let a large gopher snake loose in the airport
commission meeting?

Oops.