The graphic (website) version of this newsletter can be accessed at:
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Quote of the Week: "They [noise levels] are not significant, because they
are in the 45 to 60 noise level," explained FAA spokesman Jim Peters. "The
increase is light to moderate." from a story this week on the FAA
downplaying impacts from the "update" of their eastern region Airspace
Redesign scheme
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Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter
#422.........................................................................April
1, 2007 Past newsletters can be accessed at:
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Issues Airspace Redesign "Update!!!"
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As Bill Sees It: (Editorial): FAA Issues "Clear" Routing Update And Video
Of
Airspace Redesign Plan Changes: I was pleased to see that the FAA issued
their latest New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia Airspace Redesign "update"
showing clear aerial pictures and routing maps and routes of what they
intend to do (see LaGuardia Air****t aerial picture on the right). I don't
know what prompted the dramatic change. Perhaps it was my weekly display
of
some of their outrageous and obscure routing "maps" (see an example below
left) in the FAA's original "baffle them with technical nonsense" Draft
Environmental Impact Statement. Or maybe it was the Democrats winning
back
control over congress. Perhaps it was the the EPA, which has some
oversight
on the process, actually doing their job. Whatever it was, I don't see how
the original plan, with all its obscure maps and purposely hidden impacts,
can still be allowed to be used. This fact, as well as the FAA's
concentrating , instead of fairly fanning out noise impacts on
communities,
seems to me to be an ideal basis for lawsuits. Lawsuits are the one thing
the FAA is afraid of because it exposes their unjust, racist and
politicized
routing process to outside review.
New Impact Routing Maps Clearly Show FAA Unjust, Politicized And Racist
Aircraft Routes: One thing I like about the update was how it now clearly
shows how the FAA criminally concentrates the planned increased noise
impacts on humans, especially if they are poor and Black and live in
politically powerless areas. Who has less political power than mostly poor
and Black people in prison? So it stands to reason that Riker's Island
prison, near LaGuardia Air****t (above right) in New York City, would be a
prime overflight dumping area. As you can see on the map above planes
have
to make a sharp right turn, avoiding open water, to go over the prison!!!
I
wonder if the FAA somehow has figured a way to eliminate the Riker's
Island
prison from their human impact analysis. The FAA concentrates routing
impacts over their victims to show that they are reducing the number of
people impacted by aircraft noise. This is how the FAA gets to play one
community off against other.
JFK Air****t Impacts And *****sments Completely Left Out Of Update!!!
Carefully kept out of the "update" plan is any mention of what the plan is
for JFK Air****t. Obviously the FAA is going to just going to send the
projected increased impacts over communities already heavily impacted and
maintain the politically-protected communities quiet. In my opinion this
is
due to the influence of Senator "Chuck" Schumer (above right) who I
believe
uses the FAA to protect certain communities, like Lawrence, Long Island,
from overflights. As a congressman, Schumer was instrumental in the
diverting JFK night flights away from Lawrence and over nearby Rockaway,
New
York City.
Environmental Problems Developing Even Before "Authority" Takes Over New
York's Stewart Air****t Lease!!! The infamous ****t Authority, which runs
New
York City area air****ts, thought they were going to make a deal with a
few
local slimeball politicians and secretly build a giant air cargo hub in
upstate New York without the public doing a thing about it. That may have
been a miscalculation. Already, a local newspaper re****ts that only months
before the projected takeover, they already have a controversy brewing in
the form of a small lake located near one of Stewart Air****t's runways.
FAA Issues 60-Page Airspace Redesign "Update!!!" After five years and $50
million spent on reconfiguring flight paths in and out of major Northeast
air****ts, the Federal Aviation Administration released a 60-page study
Friday afternoon on how it hopes to control noise under its new plan. The
highly technical noise mitigation re****t is available on the FAA Web site:
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070407/NEWS01/704070362/1006
airspace_redesign where readers are encouraged to e-mail their remarks
direct to the FAA. FAA released the study Friday so interested parties
could
review it in advance of upcoming meetings in the region on the redesign
and
its impact on neighborhoods. The FAA has modified the headings of flights
departing Philadelphia International Air****t over South Jersey based on
objections from residents and officials, said FAA spokesman Jim Peters.
"We
dropped one heading that would have sent aircraft over Gloucester and
Salem
counties. Now, the new track will ****ft over Camden County creating new
impacts, but they are slight to moderate. Based on our modeling, we see no
significant noise increase," said Peters.
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070407/NEWS01/704070362/1006
New York: Stewart Air****t Lake Controversy Disturbs ****t Authority's
Waters:
Stewart Air****t - They saved the lake once before. Now, will the people
who
love to swim in once-popular Crestview Lake have to ride to its rescue
again? There will be no swimming in Crestview this year; that much is
certain. It's closed because of construction of the Drury Lane interchange
with Interstate 84 - in the vicinity of the lake's entrance road. But what
about 2008 and beyond? Diane Newlander, a founder of New Windsor Concerned
Citizens, raised the issue at last week's Stewart Air****t Commission
meeting. By next year, the ****t Authority of New York and New Jersey is
expected to be the new leaseholder of the air****t property, and thus would
have a say in who, if anybody, subleases the lake site. But agency
spokesman
Marc La Vorgna said it's way too early to be asking such questions. Right
now, the ****t Authority is focused solely on working out the details of
its
own lease for the air****t property, he said. Editor's Note: Once this
corrupt, weird "bi-state" agency gets control of Stewart Air****t locals
can
say goodby not only to their lake, but their quality of life.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070404/NEWS/704040336/-1/NEWS
The European Commission will cap emissions from both domestic and
international airlines at 2004-2006 levels: As of 2012, all flights into
and
out of the EU will be covered by the EU's greenhouse gas emissions trading
system, under a proposal laid out by the European Commission (EC) in late
December. The system is the centerpiece of EU efforts to meet emissions
reduction targets agreed to under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
Including aviation is necessary, EC officials say, to account for the
environmental costs of rapidly growing emissions from this sector, which
are
threatening to wipe out gains made by other sectors. To counter threats of
legal action by the U.S., international carriers will be given an extra
year
to comply. Air travel currently accounts for only about 3% of total
greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, but these are expected to more than
double by 2020 under a business-as-usual scenario. Since 1990, aviation
emissions have increased 87%. With this measure, EC officials estimate
annual CO2 savings of 46% or 183 million tons by 2020. The EC will set
pollution limits based on average aviation emissions in 2004-2006,
allocating credits to specific airlines. Editor's Note: While Europe at
least tries to address the aviation pollution CO2 problem President
Moronic
Polluter and the airlines think of ways of fighting it!!!
http://www.welcomeurope.com/default.asp?id=1300&idnews=3789
Air Travel Is The "Dirtiest" Form Of Trans****tation!!! These days,
everyone
seems to be flying everywhere - a function of busier lives, better air
connections and the proliferation of really cheap tickets. In Europe, air
passenger traffic has grown more than 5 percent a year for the last two
years, according to the Association of European Airlines. In Asia, it is
growing by over 7 percent a year, experts say, and the region is projected
to lead world air traffic by 2025, according to the Association of Asia
Pacific Airlines. The problem is that air travel is the "dirtiest choice
of
trans****t" in terms of the emissions that cause global warming, according
to
Peder Jensen, trans****tation expert at the European Environment Agency in
Copenhagen. Though exact estimates are complicated, it is four to five
times
more polluting than a train for the distance traveled, and perhaps twice
as
polluting as driving, according to Friends of the Earth. Many estimates
are
higher: flying from London to Paris or Brussels produces 10 times more
emissions per passenger than taking the train, according to independent
research commissioned by Eurostar in 2006.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/28/business/greencol29.php
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Im****tant Aviation News Stories This
Week
Crestview Lake's future tied to Stewart Air****t takeover
Swimmers enjoy Crestview Lake beach in New Windsor. The future of the
popular recreation spot is up in the air.Times Herald-Record/DOMINICK
FIORILLE By Michael Randall
Times Herald-Record
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070404/NEWS/704040336/-1/NEWS
April 04, 2007 Stewart Air****t - They saved the lake once before.
Now, will the people who love to swim in once-popular Crestview Lake have
to
ride to its rescue again?
There will be no swimming in Crestview this year; that much is certain.
It's
closed because of construction of the Drury Lane interchange with
Interstate
84 - in the vicinity of the lake's entrance road.
But what about 2008 and beyond?
Diane Newlander, a founder of New Windsor Concerned Citizens, raised the
issue at last week's Stewart Air****t Commission meeting.
By next year, the ****t Authority of New York and New Jersey is expected to
be the new leaseholder of the air****t property, and thus would have a say
in
who, if anybody, subleases the lake site.
But agency spokesman Marc La Vorgna said it's way too early to be asking
such questions. Right now, the ****t Authority is focused solely on working
out the details of its own lease for the air****t property, he said.
If ****t Authority is amenable to someone running Crestview Lake, there
then
arises the question of who would run it.
The Town of New Windsor did that for more than 20 years under a lease with
the state, until rising costs - combined with a growing percentage of
users
coming from outside the town - prompted it to drop out of the picture in
2002.
Orange County took over the site in 2003, to much fanfare. It gave the
county a kind of recreational presence it hadn't previously had in its
eastern reaches. County officials even talked of putting a golf course on
adjacent lands.
But by the end of the 2005 season, the county was experiencing some
stumbling blocks. Because it had only a short-term lease, it couldn't
commit
funds for needed improvements. The main building was in need of repair,
and
****table toilets were still being used.
Yesterday, county officials said they couldn't commit to running Crestview
again.
"Down the road, we might take another look at it," said Rich Mayfield,
County Executive Edward Diana's spokesman.
But he said that running the lake - even just day-to-day operation and
maintenance - is very labor-intensive, and thus very costly.
"It's not just throwing the gates open and letting someone sit under an
umbrella," Mayfield said.
And don't look to the town to get back in the business of running
Crestview.
Before a re****ter could even complete the question, Supervisor George
Green
had his answer out: "No." He cited the same reason his predecessor, George
Meyers, did for not renewing the lease on Crestview five years ago: too
expensive.
"If the county wants to get back into it, God bless them," Green said.
FAA will try to reduce noise of planes over residences
Saturday, April 07, 2007
http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/local/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1175930704240330.xml&coll=8
By Jonathan Vit jvit@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
proposed noise mitigation plan will reroute new air traffic out of
Philadelphia closer to the Delaware River in an effort to reduce the
number
of impacted residents, said Federal Aviation Administration officials on
Friday.
For the past six years, the FAA has spent $50 million investigating
proposals to address air traffic congestion in the Philadelphia and New
York
City metropolitan areas.
In order to cope with increased air traffic noise in communities under jet
liner flight paths, the FAA released a noise mitigation re****t Friday
detailing possible noise reduction remedies across the five-state area.
In earlier draft plans, "We re****ted that 341,000 people would experience
some noise impacts," explained Steve Kelley, program manger for the
airspace
redesign project. "That number of 341,000 was reduced to 67,000. This is
about an 87 percent reduction to the number of people who are exposed to
noise levels."
The Gibbstown-section of Greenwich Town****p is in an area that might see
an
increase in air traffic under the FAA's favored integrated airspace
alternative.
Under the alternative, Gibbstown residents would see additional traffic
flying above their homes, resulting in a slight increase in aircraft
noise.
"They [noise levels] are not significant, because they are in the 45 to 60
noise level," explained FAA spokesman Jim Peters. "The increase is light
to
moderate."
Although FAA re****ts indicate that Gibbstown would see an increase in air
traffic under the proposed plan, noise mitigation strategies call for the
flights to hug the Delaware River, reducing the number of impacted
residents.
"The mitigated headings that we would use are closer to the river and have
less impact than the original plans," Peters said. "We are going to keep
them as close to the river as possible."
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