Stories Like this Bug Me

We're about to have another round of Us v. Them in Denver at APA.
The FAA is starting another 180 days of public comment on noise.
The article in the newspaper started out very positive, citing the
economic impact. That was the first 2 paragraphs. Then the rest of
the article was rather negative, talking about noise, giving the
telephone number to make complaints, and so on.

APA does not take FAA funds for many reasons, including not being
allowed to have scheduled flights. There are lots of charters
but nothing scheduled.

And they keep building directly under the 17 approach, about
2 miles north of the runway. And people keep buying these houses!

I was planning a xcountry to Scottsbluff and noticed in the NOTAMs that 3V5
was closed indefinitely. That's Ft.Collins, Co Downtown. Anybody know
what's happening there?

When I bought my first house I found the perfect place right beside Buckley
AFB's runway. I got to see all the cool stuff and loved the noise.
When the other people around me complained I just asked why they bought a
place next to an Air Force Base that had been there 75 years.

Paul

"Blanche" wrote in message
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We're about to have another round of Us v. Them in Denver at APA.
The FAA is starting another 180 days of public comment on noise.
The article in the newspaper started out very positive, citing the
economic impact. That was the first 2 paragraphs. Then the rest of
the article was rather negative, talking about noise, giving the
telephone number to make complaints, and so on.

APA does not take FAA funds for many reasons, including not being
allowed to have scheduled flights. There are lots of charters
but nothing scheduled.

And they keep building directly under the 17 approach, about
2 miles north of the runway. And people keep buying these houses!

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:13:13 -0700, adeian wrote:

When the other people around me complained I just asked why they
bought a place next to an Air Force Base that had been there 75 years.

How did they respond?

- Andrew

adeian wrote:
I was planning a xcountry to Scottsbluff and noticed in the NOTAMs that 3V5
was closed indefinitely. That's Ft.Collins, Co Downtown. Anybody know
what's happening there?

Downtown closed last month. Developers. And with Fort/Love, the city
was in no way ready to help. They like the developers better.

email me off-list

blanche at acm.org

for more details.

In article ,
"adeian" wrote:

When I bought my first house I found the perfect place right beside Buckley
AFB's runway. I got to see all the cool stuff and loved the noise.
When the other people around me complained I just asked why they bought a
place next to an Air Force Base that had been there 75 years.

Extra points if they knew that it couldn't have been there 75 years!

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

Ok I was off by 11 years. It started construction on May 1942 so 64 years.

Paul

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article ,
"adeian" wrote:

When I bought my first house I found the perfect place right beside
Buckley
AFB's runway. I got to see all the cool stuff and loved the noise.
When the other people around me complained I just asked why they bought a
place next to an Air Force Base that had been there 75 years.

Extra points if they knew that it couldn't have been there 75 years!

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

They didn't care at all just grumbled and moaned more. I'm always looking
for people to take flying though and I got one of them interested enough in
Aviation to get his PPL. Last I heard his Son was working on his. So a
little good came of it.

Paul

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:13:13 -0700, adeian wrote:

When the other people around me complained I just asked why they
bought a place next to an Air Force Base that had been there 75 years.

How did they respond?

- Andrew

Blanche wrote:

adeian wrote:
I was planning a xcountry to Scottsbluff and noticed in the NOTAMs
that 3V5 was closed indefinitely. That's Ft.Collins, Co Downtown.
Anybody know what's happening there?

Downtown closed last month. Developers. And with Fort/Love, the city
was in no way ready to help. They like the developers better.


Yea, it's too bad. I understand the property was sold earlier this year, and planned to cease operations as
of now. My relatives only live a short distance from 3V5 and it was very convenient flying in there. I've
never been to FNL, but don't expect it to have the same small-airport ambience.

Mike

Bob Noel wrote:
"adeian" wrote:

When I bought my first house I found the perfect place right beside Buckley
AFB's runway. I got to see all the cool stuff and loved the noise.
When the other people around me complained I just asked why they bought a
place next to an Air Force Base that had been there 75 years.

Extra points if they knew that it couldn't have been there 75 years!

It might have been an Army Air Corps base...