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A new twist on complaints
Dudley Henriques wrote:
Hi Roger; This is a cycle that has occurred and often repeats itself at many small airports. Unless it's dealt with aggressively up front, it can become an airport killer. I've seen this happen at several airports during my career and the way it happened in all cases was consistent. The airport exists. The developers come and build without a winning challenge from the airport, usually because the airport can't afford the challenge. Upscale houses are built and usually sold to professional and business people involved directly in the local area. The complaints start rolling in to the local politicians. The math is simple. Just count the votes the people complaining control vs the vote controlled by the local airport. Add to this the fact that in many cases the land the airport sits on is a prime target for more developers, and you have the perfect equation for an airport's demise!! Dudley Yep, the only solution is to build airports only on former toxic waste sites... :-) That is about the only way to keep the vultur... er, developers away. Matt |
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A new twist on complaints
I guess you've never heard of "The Love Canal" Matt.
Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone |
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A new twist on complaints
Flyingmonk wrote:
I guess you've never heard of "The Love Canal" Matt. Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone Au contraire. I don't live all that far from it! Matt |
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:34:17 -0800, "Peter Duniho"
wrote: "Roger" wrote in message .. . [...] Well, the inevitable happened and people built some new subdivisions off the departure end of 24. It's now almost solid homes for about a mile and a half and they are the big expensive ones. There is a bit more traffic in the mornings lately so they are now complaining about the changes in the traffic and the noise. New twist? New for the airport, maybe. Same old, same old for airports generally. My reference to "new twist" was because the last time this issue came up they used to opposite complaint. Before they thought it was a bunch of hobbyists using the airport and very little business. Now they are complaining there are too many business flights and the airport should be for local pilots. :-)) Your situation is a great example of why airports should be very aggressive about dealing with development happening around them, and especially development happening on the extended runway centerline. Other airports have successfully challenged developments, either resulting in ensuring that a path under the centerline is clear, or restricting the distance within which the development encroaches on the airport, or requiring that the property titles for the newly developed area carry a I think that's why the guy has his shorts in a bunch. He's afraid that if he complains about noise it'll be recorded on his property deed and if he want's to sell he will have to disclose the noise problem. So instead of filing a complaint, he writes a letter to the editor of the local news paper. That and although in the city, I think he's a good mile and a half to two miles off the end of the runway. We have several SR-22s and those suckers are loud. I was surprised that they make more noise than most of the Bonanzas and 210s. We're on the centerline for GPS-06 which is straight in and I know when they go over without even going outside. Depending on what mode they are only 400 or 500 AGL when they go over this guy's house when inbound. Of course they aren't running full power either. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com notation describing the presence of the airport and restricting the property owner's rights with respect to actions against the airport. I especially like the last option, and in some cases all of the techniques are applied. Pete |
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On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:38:59 GMT, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote: Hi Roger; This is a cycle that has occurred and often repeats itself at many small airports. Unless it's dealt with aggressively up front, it can become an airport killer. I've seen this happen at several airports during my career and the way it happened in all cases was consistent. Yup, We've been through it a couple of times. The airport exists. The developers come and build without a winning challenge from the airport, usually because the airport can't afford the challenge. If they sell any noise complaints are recorded. I think that's what makes them so upset and why this guy has his shorts in a bunch. He's ****ed about the noise, but doesn't want a complaint on his deed and said as much in his letter to the editor.. To read the article you need to sign up, but they just want a valid e-mail address as I recall. I've never been spamed from them and they've never shared the address, but you can use a "throw away" address as long as it's valid when you sign up. http://www.ourmidland.com/site/news....dept_id=472539 takes you to the editorial page. The topic is "City needs to look at Barstow Again". The news paper www.ourmidland.com . Select "editorial page" near the bottom (it's in fine print) and then look up the topic, or do a search on the above topic. The page may only be up for another day or two so if it's not there you just do the search. Upscale houses are built and usually sold to professional and business people involved directly in the local area. The complaints start rolling in to the local politicians. The math is simple. Just count the votes the people complaining control vs the vote controlled by the local airport. In this case the city just put $750,000 into a new terminal, we have "as I recall" about a half million in recent federal grants, and just scheduled $350,000 for resurfacing 18/36. I think the total for the next year or so is around 1.5 million and we may just get 4000 plus out of 06/24, but it won't be much more than that or they'd have to move a main road and clear out about 6 or 8 large businesses. A good portion of the airport land was purchased with the aid of federal grants while most of the rest was "given" to the city to use as an airport, but with some pretty strong deed restrictions. It gets used as an airport, cemetery, or goes back to the foundations. It might get turned into a very expensive park as it'd cost the city millions to close and the developers wouldn't have a shot at most of it anyway. The city "so far" sees the airport as a high profile gateway to a "progressive" city and an attraction to bring in more businesses. We have two very large chemical companies which of course base their aircraft at MBS as they are way too big for 3BS, but the larger of the two has been downsizing its work force substantially, or moving some production to other US sites. The hourly workforce alone was over 7500 back in the 50's and 60's. Now it's about a quarter that (or less), so the city is working hard to bring in more businesses and of the type that will allow for "upscale" employees. We built a new "three sheet" ice arena that opened this past summer. Last weekend it hosted the US National Junior, short track speed skating championships. We also host world class tennis meets. This is the direction the city planners want to go and the light in which they want their city to be seen. The city is fighting the erosion of jobs and trying to turn downtown into ... well, something. They earned a "Cool City" or some such award recently. That allows them to get more grants and state money for beautification projects. Add to this the fact that in many cases the land the airport sits on is a prime target for more developers, and you have the perfect equation for an airport's demise!! I may be wrong, but I don't think the developers would get a shot at most of it and the foundations are unlikely to sell it. OTOH we are still dealing with the mentality of those who didn't want the runways lengthened because of the noise and we'd probably get some jets in. We already get some small jets and the current generation is quieter than most of our high performance prop planes. Now when I take off on 18 I go out over one noise sensitive area at 200 to 500 feet instead of pattern altitude due to a 3000 foot runway instead of 4000. If it's a hot day I can count the boards in their picnic tables. :-)) They hated me when the Deb still had the 2-blade prop as the tips were supersonic at take off RPM and I sure wasn't going to back off at 200 feet. In this guy's case, he was quite happy with the airport until some flights started going over his place early in the morning. He "thinks" they are business flights so he want's us to keep the airport for the local pilots and have the business flights go into MBS. Of course coming into 3BS saves them a good two hours or more plus car rental. To those people the price of two hours is probably more than my yearly pension *plus* what I make off the stock market. This is a case of what some people would call big money, but if so it's big money fighting some *really* big money. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com Dudley "Roger" wrote in message .. . Well, here we go again although so far there is just the one nut. A few years back there was an organized effort to close Midland Barstow (3BS). Of course the argument was noise even though we were here first. As the noise issue was not working they tried to fire up the residents by complaining about the airport subsidy for a bunch of hobbyists, or amateur pilots. Turned out that a study showed the airport brings in about $10 million dollars into the area each year. They weren't satisfied with that so they paid to have their own study done. It did say the first study was wrong. I came up with considerably *more* than ten million. :-)) When they found out how many millions of dollars it'd cost to close the airport and dispose of the land the effort died. However, trying to be good neighbors the departure was changed to straight out with the preferred runway being 06/24 as there was nothing off the end of 24 outbound except a few houses and a lot of trees. Departing 06 takes you out over the north end of a mall and a few businesses. Well, the inevitable happened and people built some new subdivisions off the departure end of 24. It's now almost solid homes for about a mile and a half and they are the big expensive ones. There is a bit more traffic in the mornings lately so they are now complaining about the changes in the traffic and the noise. Oh yah! This group is complaining there are too many business flights and we should keep the airport for the local pilots to use. There is also the argument against lengthening the runways, but try and convince them that if a plane starts its take off roll a 1000 feet farther away it'll be much higher and quieter when it goes over their home off the end of the runway. They're worried about jets, but most of today's smaller jets are far quieter than most of our high performance singles and twins. One other thing, now that we have GPS they are in line with the straight in approach for 06, so inbound will only be about 500 feet above them. I don't think they have figured that one out yet. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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"Roger" wrote We have several SR-22s and those suckers are loud. I was surprised that they make more noise than most of the Bonanzas and 210s. That is the very first I have heard anyone say that about SR-22's. Is it all prop noise, or is there a good share of engine noise that could be helped with a bit of muffler? Inconsiderate pilots carrying too many RPM.s too far out? I am not one to be anti aviation (in the least!!!), but I say that at times, we are our own worst enemies, in regard to watching our noise. Certain planes do seem to have more of a problem, for sure. At OSH every year, I cringe at the T-6's blasting out of there, like there is not another person in miles, and that everyone loves to hear their props. I love the sound of power, but there is a point at which one has to think about what they are doing, IMHO. -- Jim in NC |
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This sounds like it's going to be an ongoing deal for some time Roger.
I hope it all goes well for your side in the end. Reading this brought back some memories and Bea and I sat down last night and got out some old records and photos. Believe it or not, almost every small field where I either flew from or instructed out of is now gone; some are housing developments; some are shopping centers or malls. One is an industrial park. It's absolutely amazing! The entire face of aviation has changed. The funny thing is that I've always wondered how Golf Courses have escaped the developers ax that has been used on the small airports. I figured it out once over lunch with a couple of "big money" guys at our local country club. We figured that off the first tee with a good drive, the ball would over fly about 10 million dollars of prime development real estate. (Actually for my drive, about 5 million dollars would about do it I think :-))))) You have to wonder about all that prime land with the airports and the golf courses as well, just sitting there waiting for the right combination of developer/politician/ and "the inevitable DEAL, this combo can produce! I hope your airport escapes and survives. Dudley "Roger" wrote in message ... On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:38:59 GMT, "Dudley Henriques" wrote: Hi Roger; This is a cycle that has occurred and often repeats itself at many small airports. Unless it's dealt with aggressively up front, it can become an airport killer. I've seen this happen at several airports during my career and the way it happened in all cases was consistent. Yup, We've been through it a couple of times. The airport exists. The developers come and build without a winning challenge from the airport, usually because the airport can't afford the challenge. If they sell any noise complaints are recorded. I think that's what makes them so upset and why this guy has his shorts in a bunch. He's ****ed about the noise, but doesn't want a complaint on his deed and said as much in his letter to the editor.. To read the article you need to sign up, but they just want a valid e-mail address as I recall. I've never been spamed from them and they've never shared the address, but you can use a "throw away" address as long as it's valid when you sign up. http://www.ourmidland.com/site/news....dept_id=472539 takes you to the editorial page. The topic is "City needs to look at Barstow Again". The news paper www.ourmidland.com . Select "editorial page" near the bottom (it's in fine print) and then look up the topic, or do a search on the above topic. The page may only be up for another day or two so if it's not there you just do the search. Upscale houses are built and usually sold to professional and business people involved directly in the local area. The complaints start rolling in to the local politicians. The math is simple. Just count the votes the people complaining control vs the vote controlled by the local airport. In this case the city just put $750,000 into a new terminal, we have "as I recall" about a half million in recent federal grants, and just scheduled $350,000 for resurfacing 18/36. I think the total for the next year or so is around 1.5 million and we may just get 4000 plus out of 06/24, but it won't be much more than that or they'd have to move a main road and clear out about 6 or 8 large businesses. A good portion of the airport land was purchased with the aid of federal grants while most of the rest was "given" to the city to use as an airport, but with some pretty strong deed restrictions. It gets used as an airport, cemetery, or goes back to the foundations. It might get turned into a very expensive park as it'd cost the city millions to close and the developers wouldn't have a shot at most of it anyway. The city "so far" sees the airport as a high profile gateway to a "progressive" city and an attraction to bring in more businesses. We have two very large chemical companies which of course base their aircraft at MBS as they are way too big for 3BS, but the larger of the two has been downsizing its work force substantially, or moving some production to other US sites. The hourly workforce alone was over 7500 back in the 50's and 60's. Now it's about a quarter that (or less), so the city is working hard to bring in more businesses and of the type that will allow for "upscale" employees. We built a new "three sheet" ice arena that opened this past summer. Last weekend it hosted the US National Junior, short track speed skating championships. We also host world class tennis meets. This is the direction the city planners want to go and the light in which they want their city to be seen. The city is fighting the erosion of jobs and trying to turn downtown into ... well, something. They earned a "Cool City" or some such award recently. That allows them to get more grants and state money for beautification projects. Add to this the fact that in many cases the land the airport sits on is a prime target for more developers, and you have the perfect equation for an airport's demise!! I may be wrong, but I don't think the developers would get a shot at most of it and the foundations are unlikely to sell it. OTOH we are still dealing with the mentality of those who didn't want the runways lengthened because of the noise and we'd probably get some jets in. We already get some small jets and the current generation is quieter than most of our high performance prop planes. Now when I take off on 18 I go out over one noise sensitive area at 200 to 500 feet instead of pattern altitude due to a 3000 foot runway instead of 4000. If it's a hot day I can count the boards in their picnic tables. :-)) They hated me when the Deb still had the 2-blade prop as the tips were supersonic at take off RPM and I sure wasn't going to back off at 200 feet. In this guy's case, he was quite happy with the airport until some flights started going over his place early in the morning. He "thinks" they are business flights so he want's us to keep the airport for the local pilots and have the business flights go into MBS. Of course coming into 3BS saves them a good two hours or more plus car rental. To those people the price of two hours is probably more than my yearly pension *plus* what I make off the stock market. This is a case of what some people would call big money, but if so it's big money fighting some *really* big money. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com Dudley "Roger" wrote in message . .. Well, here we go again although so far there is just the one nut. A few years back there was an organized effort to close Midland Barstow (3BS). Of course the argument was noise even though we were here first. As the noise issue was not working they tried to fire up the residents by complaining about the airport subsidy for a bunch of hobbyists, or amateur pilots. Turned out that a study showed the airport brings in about $10 million dollars into the area each year. They weren't satisfied with that so they paid to have their own study done. It did say the first study was wrong. I came up with considerably *more* than ten million. :-)) When they found out how many millions of dollars it'd cost to close the airport and dispose of the land the effort died. However, trying to be good neighbors the departure was changed to straight out with the preferred runway being 06/24 as there was nothing off the end of 24 outbound except a few houses and a lot of trees. Departing 06 takes you out over the north end of a mall and a few businesses. Well, the inevitable happened and people built some new subdivisions off the departure end of 24. It's now almost solid homes for about a mile and a half and they are the big expensive ones. There is a bit more traffic in the mornings lately so they are now complaining about the changes in the traffic and the noise. Oh yah! This group is complaining there are too many business flights and we should keep the airport for the local pilots to use. There is also the argument against lengthening the runways, but try and convince them that if a plane starts its take off roll a 1000 feet farther away it'll be much higher and quieter when it goes over their home off the end of the runway. They're worried about jets, but most of today's smaller jets are far quieter than most of our high performance singles and twins. One other thing, now that we have GPS they are in line with the straight in approach for 06, so inbound will only be about 500 feet above them. I don't think they have figured that one out yet. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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The funny thing is that I've always wondered how Golf Courses have escaped
the developers ax that has been used on the small airports. I figured it out once So.. what is the answer? How did they escape? Jose -- He who laughs, lasts. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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All I figured out was the price of the real estate being over flown by the
ball. As to why the golf courses are still there.........could very well be that both the politicians and the developers play golf! :-) DH "Jose" wrote in message t... The funny thing is that I've always wondered how Golf Courses have escaped the developers ax that has been used on the small airports. I figured it out once So.. what is the answer? How did they escape? Jose -- He who laughs, lasts. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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