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#477........................................................................April
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of the Week: "Caps just don't work - it's like pu****ng a balloon in
one place and it pops out in another." quote this week from Senator
"Chuck"
Schumer on the FAA's effort to reduce delays by limiting the number of
flight operations at major air****ts
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Schumer Is AGAINST Controlling
Air****t "Caps" !!!
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As Bill Sees It (Editorial): Youtube Airshow Kills 11 People Crash
Video!!!
I don't know where or when this happened, or even what country it happened
in; but it shows the danger of having air shows. I think these videos have
the opposite effect of all the airline industry propaganda and I look
forward to seeing more of them, especially ones that show the insanity of
having a major air****t located in a city.
Sen. "Chuck" Schumer Comes Out Against The FAA Effort To Control (Cap)
Air****t Flight Numbers!!! This creep is apparently no longer hiding his
aviation expansionist feelings and the fact he is in the pocket of the
airline industry. I guess he has decided to work full time for them. I
remember when Schumer (AKA Schemer) was my congressman in JFK
Air****t-impacted Rockaway, N.Y. City and he used to ****tray himself as a
protector of communities against air****t expansion. Once Schumer became a
U.S. senator he quickly changed his tune to become the promoter of the
(loud) "economic engines" of air****t expansion, especially in upstate New
York communities desperate for jobs. These poor people were not used to
the
horror of living near a 24/7 operating, noisy air****t and are prime
targets
for the Aviation Cabal and their point man, Schumer. No doubt he will
continue to get sup****t from "environmental" organizations who have sold
out
to the democrat phonies years ago. All the "Schemer" has to do to get
their
approval is sup****t a biofuel or solar power initiative and this community
will fall over each other to sup****t him. No wonder America is going down
the tubes fast as the tubes are greased by lying, op****tunists like the
ultimate Liberal phony, Chuck Schumer.
Connecticut Getting Short End Of Airspace Redesign Stick!!! While "some"
New
York communities have gotten a little relief under the airspace plan, it
looks like Connecticut communities are going to get their sleep disturbed
by
an increase of hundreds of flights a day. I guess their politicians don't
have the political clout with the FAA that Schumer has.
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Sen. "Chuck" Schumer Comes Out Against The FAA Effort To Put "Cap" On
Air****t Flights!!! WNYW -- Senator Charles Schumer said Sunday that a
new
trans****tation plan criticized the FAA's plan to reduce delays and Newark
and JFK air****ts. The plan to cap flights, Schumer said, didn't work at
Chicago's O'Hare Air****t or LaGuardia so it probably won't work now.
Delays
at the three metro area air****ts often cause cascading delays across the
country. Last year the United States saw some of the worst backups on
record. The Federal Aviation Administration hatched a plan last year to
reduce flight delays by limiting takeoffs and landings at peak times in
the
day. President Bush said his Cabinet will talk about the airline delay and
maintenance problems on Monday. Watch video and listen to Sen. Schumer's
comments at:
http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6295166&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
Editor's Note: It is obvious that limiting flights IS the answer to
reducing
delays, but that would put pressure on Schumer's pals, the big airlines.
Connecticut: FAA Avoids Attending Community Forum On Airspace Redesign!!!
The Federal Aviation Administration's lack of presence at Monday night's
community forum at the Greenwich Town Hall fueled an already blazing fire
under lawmakers representing the region who vowed to stand together and
continue their fight against the agency's proposed airspace redesign,
which
****fts airplane traffic over Fairfield County. "This meeting was very
beneficial and very educational," First Selectman Evonne Klein told The
Darien Times on Wednesday. "It brought people up to speed about where we
are. If this proposed redesign goes through, it will have devastating
effects not only on Fairfield County but on the entire state." Klein also
said the town will be getting a DVD of the meeting to broadcast on Darien
TV
79. Many, including state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, cited last
week's defeat by the New York Department of State of the Broadwater Energy
liquefied natural gas project as proof that a united front can work when
fighting the federal government for a cause. Broadwater had planned to put
a
liquefied natural gas terminal in Long Island Sound in New York waters,
east
of the Iroquois pipeline. While approved, with conditions, by the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, the project failed to show New York
officials that it is consistent with the state's coastal zone policies.
Blumenthal said similar to the fight against the FAA, the Broadwater fight
started with few participants and increased in size. He added the two
causes
are analogous in that each situation has better alternatives not being
considered and each plan has shown "inadequate consideration of
environmental impact."
http://www.acorn-online.com/news/publish/darien/32178.shtml
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Im****tant Aviation
News
Stories This Week
High-Powered Rally Lays Out Fight Against FAA Rerouting Plan
By Anne W. Semmes Article Launched: 04/18/2008 10:05:55 AM EDT
http://www.norwalkcitizen-news.com/topstories/ci_8971692
GREENWICH
Energized citizenry and elected officials gathered in Greenwich's Town
Hall
Monday night were palpable in their spoken witness to challenge the
Federal
Aviation Administration's (FAA) right to negatively affect their quality
of
life with the rerouting and increase of air travel.
They came from Wa****ngton, D.C., from Hartford, from cities and towns
across
southwestern Connecticut and adjoining areas in New York and included
impassioned speakers U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-4, and state Sen. John
McKinney, R-Fairfield; letters read from U.S. Sens. Joseph Lieberman and
Christopher Dodd, and the final witness of state Attorney General Richard
Blumenthal. All are determined to stop the FAA's planned January 2009
rerouting that will bring an alleged doubling of low-air approaches to New
York air****ts, doubling of airplane noise and increased air pollution over
Westchester and Fairfield counties.
Those affected by the FAA rerouting plan called the Integrated Airspace
Alternative (IAA) an effort to address increased traffic into the New York
air****ts, extend across New Jersey to Philadelphia.
Glaringly absent from the meeting were representatives from FAA. "The FAA
has not responded to tonight's invitation,"
He said the evening's moderator, former New Canaan First Selectman Judy
Neville, now chief operating officer of the Alliance for Sensible Airspace
Planning. The alliance was formed by leaders of Fairfield County cities
and
towns, including Norwalk, to fight the FAA. Neville introduced Shays, the
first speaker, as "always there for us and he is with us now."
"Judy was speaking about this before anyone was," said Shays. "She knows
its
impact would be tremendous. This is a knockdown, drag-out fight and
there's
nothing pretty about it. "This is a legislative and a legal undertaking,"
he
said. referring to the lawsuit the Alliance has brought against the FAA's
plan.
Shays told of an earlier clash with the FAA 10 years ago when planes were
rerouted "to Runway 22" and flying low over his 4th Congressional District
due to an equipment breakdown at La Guardia. After getting no response
from
the FAA, Shays appealed to then-U.S. Sen. Alfonso D'Amato of New York, who
chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee, with power over the FAA. "He
solved the problem in 15 minutes," said Shays. Calling the new rerouting
plan similar, he said, "The problem now is we don't have (D'Amato) there
anymore."
He called the FAA "isolated from any public pressure as it is all about
public safety and efficiency and promoting air traffic. We need the FAA to
have an obligation for quality-of-life issues."
Shays had asked the Government Accountability Office to look at market
tools
to address the increased air traffic problems." To eliminate cueing, he
said, "Maybe at peak time you charge twice as much and at non-peak time
the
cost is a third less."
"It's only going to get worse," he said. By 2015, the current 650 million
air passengers are expected to increase to 1 billion.
Shays recommended setting up a watch group in each town currently being
affected to monitor complaints, to meet perhaps bimonthly.
"Representatives
of these groups could meet with larger groups," he said.
Whether or not Greenwich was affected (few Greenwich residents were
present)
as much as other towns such as New Canaan and Fairfield, he said, "we need
to come together."
The only factors keeping Westchester Air****t from becoming the fourth
regional air****t, he said, were the "tall trees of the Convent of the
Sacred
Heart" on King Street as well those living on King Street.
Dodd, in his letter read to the group, cited that "New York's three
air****ts
ranked as the top three with delayed operations nationwide. Dodd recently
joined with New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg's blocking of the nomination
of
the new FAA Administration Robert Sturgell on account of "his silence on
ensuring a more transparent airspace redesign process over greater New
York."
Offering an optimistic note was McKinney, the state Senate Minority
Leader,
who cited the recent defeat of the Broadwater proposal a plan to build a
mammoth natural gas terminal in Long Island Sound (LIS), "because
Connecticut cities and New York citizens and public servants were
energized.
They put all the facts together because it was bad for the environment."
"The only way we can do this," said McKinney, "is if we are organized and
work together and speak about the facts. We will get the FAA to do what is
right."
State Sen. Bob Duff, who represents Norwalk, shared McKinney's optimism.
"We
can sink this terrible plan," he said. "If we all work together, victory
will be ours." It was Neville's sleuthing of FAA flight information that
brought out the tracking facts there are some 160 to 260 flights daily
over
the southern area of Connecticut, with the majority flying under 4,000
feet.
The new rerouting plan would bring 300 to 400 additional flights. That
translates, she said, into "over 500 planes a day over our communities."
The FAA had stated it would "try to keep flights coming into La Guardia at
3,000 feet or above," she said, which was also of concern for being "too
low."
Neville spoke of three plane tracking information sites the Alliance has
on
its Web site at www.sensibleairspace.org.
Shays added to his idea of watch groups that plane trackers could be
trained, be deputized, "to confront the FAA with people's knowledge."
Blumenthal, arriving late, brought before the crowd the full impact of the
recent win against Broadwater. "No one thought we could win," he said.
"Just
me against them." Here again, he said, "It looks like the little guys
against the big guys after all, we're against the feds. The arguments are
very similar." And again, "There are better alternatives to this flight
plan
and it's the FAA's place to consider them," including as in the Broadwater
plan, the environmental impact.
And as the Broadwater plan would take over state land (LIS), Blumenthal
said, "the IAA plan impinges on the rights of Connecticut as it takes on
parkland and other public trust land that we have a right to protect."
He cited the wide representative sup****t behind the Alliance lawsuit,
which
included 12 groups from five states: Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
New Jersey and New York. His brief for the case had an index "767 pages
long."
"We are in this fight for the long haul," he said. "The state of
Connecticut
is absolutely determined and resolved to see this fight through." Anne W.
Semmes is a re****ter for sister paper the Greenwich Citizen.
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