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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:45 am Post subject: competition for the sky. |
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It appears the powers above are meeting to decide our fate.
Funny this meeting has not been really well publicized outside airport owners and letter organization leaders.
http://www.csky.info/
To give a little background am still fighting with FAA because they don't have any database of private owned airport runway coordinates.
PA bureau of aviation does and gave the corrected GPS coordinates to the FAA multiple times. They have lost them each time. My runway was moved in the database to the south west .4 miles. Oddly the same time a cell tower was trying to come in to the north east of the airport. The base of the tower is on a mountain so the entire height is obstruction.
Short story was we received notification about the tower from FAA after the public comment period ended. The letter was postmarked from FAA the last day of the comment period and they would not let us comment in the later petition period. Cell tower was built in the pattern.
The tower obstruction report was written by the cell tower company and signed by FAA. It was renewed without having another comment period by FAA and the coordinates to our runway were changed all in the same FAA office.
State would not object to the tower because FAA did not notify them. Only Pax river naval air station and Dulles approach and other really far out places. Gee wonder why there were no objections.
Local government saw determination of no hazard by FAA and how do I object to that.
FAA moved the runway without telling us but the GPS and chart database did not change. Only the obstruction evaluation database. They are two separate things.
Cell towers don't have to notify the charting office until 3 days after construction is completed. I fought another over a year to get the lights turned back on which were installed at first and then all happened to go out at the same time.
This meeting is to allow all to voice why they need airspace. Not just aviation users. Hope AOPA, EAA and FAA show up ready to fight because the little airports don't stand a chance when FAA internally won't object to the towers.
Might be interesting if you live near Vegas. The prices were crazy. |
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