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#471........................................................................March
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of the Week: "This would be the first application to the FAA for a
[mandatory curfew] by any U.S. air****t since Congress passed the Air****t
Noise and Capacity Act of 1990, which barred air****t imposition of new
access restrictions unless approved by the FAA,"
comment on a plan to impose a nighttime curfew in a news story this
week
by a Burbank Air****t spokesperson
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British Media Turning Against Aviation Polluters!!!
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As Bill Sees It (Editorial): British Media Going Over To Anti-Air****t
Expansionist Side!!! The British branch of the Aviation Cabal must really
be
worrying. If you do a Google News search of the words "Heathrow" and
"noise"
you'll see what I mean. No doubt the news media owners are seeing that
most
of their readers (the public) are not buying the government's excuses for
increasing aviation noise pollution and its health impacts and are
reacting
to it. Heathrow Air****t is not the only British air****t undergoing
expansion. News media stories about Stansted and Luton Air****t expansions
are also pointing out the increased noise and health impacts as well as
being critical of the government. Once again it is shown that the
Europeans
are leading the fight against the aviation polluters while American
environmental groups are worrying about whether to use plastic or paper
bags
at the supermarket to stop global warming. Perhaps the reason for this is
that air****ts expanded over a shorter period of time in England, whereas
in
the U.S. we have had a romance with aviation for over 70 years and have
gotten used to being bombarded 24 hours-a-day with noise. The British
government however, still seems oblivious to the rising clamor and talks
about changing routes, no doubt in a desperate effort to get communities
fighting among themselves. This is an old FAA tactic used to divert focus
away from them and their aviation pollution increase schemes. I don't
think
it will work in England as it seems like there are too many people who
have
a strong resolve to fight. I think they are going to win.
The Air Force Gives 40 Billion Dollar Tanker Contract To FOREIGNERS!!! If
you want to see the depth (it could also be "debt") of corruption in the
American government you just have to look at today's news stories about a
40
billion dollar contract to build refueling tankers being given to a
foreign
company. You cannot tell me that some air force general(s) or the people
that they put in charge of procurement are not getting a kickback of some
sort in this deal. I'm only surprised that there isn't more outrage by the
public. Maybe after 7 years of Bush we've become tolerant of stupidity. I
think whoever is responsible for this outrage should be waterboarded until
they say what they got for selling out America.
Can Burbank, California, Get The FAA Rats To Give Bob Hope Air****t
Community
A Nighttime Curfew? There have been no air****ts given nighttime curfews
instituted since the 1990 Air****t Noise and Capacity Act of 1990 was
passed,
thanks to our corrupt political system where aviation industry lobbyist
money is allowed to damage the health of millions of people. This act gave
the FAA (not the EPA or any health agency) the right to allow the airline
industry flights to expand (mostly air cargo) night operations. Since
that
time no air****ts or communities have been allowed to limit the number of
flights going over their heads at night. We'll soon see if the human
monsters that control the FAA will dare to defy their aviation polluter
bosses and their political stooges and allow a curfew or continue to
destroy
the sleep and health of the people of Burbank, California.
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Burbank, California: Burbank Community Wants Nighttime Curfew On Bob Hope
Air****t!!! Hoping to cut noise and costs, Bob Hope Air****t officials this
month will consider a proposed 10 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew and seek public
input. The scheduled meeting marks the latest step in eight years of
preparation to enter a rigorous curfew application process with the
Federal
Aviation Administration. The curfew would mostly hinder cargo planes that
fly in and out of the air****t, but also would eliminate nighttime noise
and
allow Bob Hope Air****t to save $67 million in operation and residential
noise insulation costs through 2015, said spokesman Victor Gill. Air****t
curfews are heavily restricted under federal law, requiring air****ts to
submit detailed re****ts describing why a curfew is necessary and what
impacts it would have. The Burbank air****t has been working on its
proposal
since 2000. "They're so heavily restricted that nobody has been able to
impose a curfew on (quieter) Class 3 jets since 1990," Gill said. To
soften
the impact of the air****t's noise, it has also spent more than $90 million
of its own money and federal grants insulating surrounding homes and
schools. But homes on about 60 acres surrounding the air****t are still not
properly insulated from the sound, Gill said. When the
Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Air****t Authority meets to consider the proposal
March 17, it plans to set a 45-day public comment period. Gill said it
hopes
to submit the final plan to the FAA by early summer. Once submitted, the
FAA will likely take more than six months to decide whether to allow the
curfew, Gill said. Ameriflight, an air cargo company based at Bob Hope
Air****t that would be significantly affected by the proposed curfew, did
not
return telephone calls seeking comment. Citizen watchdog group Restore Our
Air****t Rights chairman Howard Rothenbach said he was pleased with the
news.
"A curfew would be nice," he said. "I always thought a cap on flights
would
be more im****tant than a curfew, but we'll take what we can get."
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_8495900
England: Government And Airline Operator "Fixed" Heathrow Third Runway
Evidence!!! THE air****ts operator BAA colluded with government officials
to
"fix" the evidence in favour of a new third runway at Heathrow, an
investigation has found. Do***ents seen by The Sunday Times reveal that
BAA
executives prevented the use of data in the consultation do***ent which
showed that the expansion would cause unlawful levels of pollution and
extra
noise. Instead, they gave civil servants amended data that showed the
anticipated 230,000 extra flights a year at Heathrow would have a minimal
impact on noise and pollution levels. A leaked re****t shows the
government's
own watchdog, the Environment Agency, has now criticized the Department
for
Trans****t (DfT) consultation do***ent into the third runway as flawed and
incomplete. The agency says the science is not "sufficiently robust" to
sustain the do***ent's backing for a third runway and that it has
neglected
to consider the health impact of the extra pollution, which could increase
the risk of serious illness and deaths in the area. One official who was
involved in "Project Heathrow" - the DfT unit that researched the
environmental impact of the runway - said: "It's a classic case of reverse
engineering. They knew exactly what results they wanted and fixed the
inputs
to get there. It's appalling."
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/trans****t/article3512218.ece
Editor's Note: Sounds like the British government is taking notes on how
the
U.S. Aviation Cabal has been operating. The FAA is famous for conjuring up
technical reasons for avoiding politically protected areas (another job
for
the FAA's Office of Technical Excuses). Maybe their next move will be to
remove funding for any office in the environmental agency that deals with
noise health impacts. That's what "our" congress did in 1980!!!
N.Y. Times Finally Discovers Noise/Blood Pressure Story!!! Noise while you
are sleeping can significantly raise your blood pressure, even when it
does
not wake you up, a new study suggests. Researchers monitored 140 generally
healthy men and women ages 45 to 70 as they slept near four European
air****ts. They used electronic devices to monitor blood pressure and to
measure noise levels from airplanes, traffic and indoor sounds. Noise
incidents varied from 5 decibels, roughly the sound of a quiet room, to
more
than 90 decibels, the equivalent of a loud stereo. The study was posted
online Feb. 12 in The European Heart Journal. At each site, the effects
were
consistent: a noise of 35 decibels or more - roughly equivalent to an
airplane passing overhead or a bed partner's loud snoring - was associated
with an average 6.2 increase in systolic blood pressure (the first number)
and a 7.4 increase in diastolic pressure; the louder the noise, the
greater
the increase. The source of the noise made no difference, and people did
not
get used to it through the night. Every time noise occurred, blood
pressure
went up. "It may well be that continuous exposure to noise for a long time
will eventually give rise to a chronic increase in blood pressure," said
Dr.
Lars Jarup, the senior author and a reader in public health at Imperial
College London. "And it's fair to say that if you increase blood pressure
until you are clinically hypertensive, this is a major risk factor for
cardiovascular illness."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/health/research/04haza.html?ref=health
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Im****tant Aviation
News
Stories This Week
Burbank Air****t planning on curfew
Authority will present a draft of study that would impose limits on
flights
from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.
By Jeremy Oberstein
http://www.burbankleader.com/articles/2008/03/08/politics/blr-curfew08.txt
BURBANK - Capping off years of debate, the tri-cities' governing board of
Bob Hope Air****t announced it will present a plan to implement a mandatory
curfew that would halt all late-night and early-morning flights at the
air****t, officials said.
But its passage could be in doubt if the Federal Aviation Administration
grounds the plan.
The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Air****t Authority will present a draft of
the
Part 161 Study, which would impose a mandatory curfew on all flights from
10
p.m. to 7 a.m., to the public at its March 17 meeting, and conduct an
initial study session, air****t spokesman Victor Gill said.
The study will then be subject to a 45-day comment period, a public
workshop
and public hearing, for which dates have not been set. Then it will then
undergo the FAA approval process, Gill said.
News that the study will move forward comes more than two months after an
administrative law judge allowed the air****t to operate outside of
state-mandated noise restrictions while it worked to reduce the noise
burden
for residents in the area. It also comes nearly two months after the
Burbank
City Council blessed the ruling after years of pressuring the authority to
pass the noise restriction.
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"We've been calling for this for years and years and sat in meetings and
looked at the committees and said 'we have to do this,'" Burbank Mayor
Marsha Ramos said. "Did the council push the authority? I believe so. But
it
helped that the judge sup****ted our position and acknowledged the value of
moving in that direction."
The curfew would affect an average of 36 flights every night and would
force
their aeronautical operations to ****ft to surrounding air****ts during the
curfew, Gill said.
Van Nuys Air****t could receive 16 flights, Ontario International Air****t
13
flights, and Los Angeles International Air****t might get three flights if
the curfew is passed, he said.
Penalties for breaking the curfew would range from about $3,600 for
first-time violators to twice and three times that amount for airlines
that
fly outside of the restriction two or three times, respectively, in a
12-month period, Gill said.
The fourth violation in a year would result in a fine of nearly $15,000
and
a suspension or outright ban of flying into or out of the air****t, he
said.
Residents have called for the curfew since the air****t authority was
established in 1978, and the authority started working on the study in
2000,
Gill said.
The study has been amended, vetted and refined through nearly a decade's
worth of edits and at a cost to the air****t of about $6 million to compile
the study, he said.
Residents near the air****t praised the authority's decision to move
forward,
saying the curfew would provide a much-needed ban against private and
business planes that now roam the night and early-morning skies.
"The real problems come from private flights," said Stan Hyman, who lives
about three miles from the air****t.
"We've been hoping for this forever."
But before those flights can be eliminated, the FAA has to approve the
curfew, which some say could be an uphill battle.
In a 2004 letter from the FAA, Victoria Catlett, an official in the office
of air****t planning and programming, said the benefits of a curfew would
not
be worth the cost to canceled flights.
The letter also called into question the point of a mandatory curfew, as
the
voluntary curfew has a compliance rate of about 97%.
Air****t officials contested the FAA's position that the cost of the curfew
would outweigh the benefits.
The cost to airlines, passengers, cargo carriers and general aviation
could
total $55 million for the 10-year length of the curfew from canceled
flights, while savings that would occur by a reduced need for residential
acoustical treatment programs near the air****t with a curfew in place
would
amount to $67 million for the same period, Gill said.
The mandatory curfew would exempt certain flights for certain medical
emergencies and in some cases where inclement weather delays flights, Gill
said.
"This would be the first application to the FAA for a [mandatory curfew]
by
any U.S. air****t since Congress passed the Air****t Noise and Capacity Act
of
1990, which barred air****t imposition of new access restrictions unless
approved by the FAA," he said. "This is groundbreaking territory. We know
we
have an uphill battle, but the deal is to fight the fight and go as far as
we can."
Other air****ts, such as Orange County's John Wayne Air****t, have mandatory
curfews in that they impose a restriction on flying from 10 p.m. to 7
a.m.,
but no air****t has ever asked for a curfew after 1990 for quieter, stage 3
planes, Gill said.
"Prior to the Air****t Noise and Capacity Act, the FAA was silent on
curfews," he said.
"It's hard to gauge what the FAA is thinking because no air****t has ever
started and finished a 161 study."
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