A discussion with a friend at Boston West Fair Skies makes me realize one of the areas that is missing from our EA is noise impact by population. The Boston population analysis is very impressive- and it’s only for one RNAV SID (Departure) Runway. After having mapped the DOT 4(f) noise data I perform an …
I will make a brief presentation tonight at Culver City Council about the OAPM. The Environmental Assessment (EA) was a difficult document to parse, made even more so by the omission of key information by the FAA and a lack of specificity in the visual figures. Part of that deficiency was made up at the …
I attended the FAA Public Hearing last night at the Santa Monica Library and spent most of the time talking to the consultants about the noise analysis. The display boards around the room were mostly a rehash of what was in the EA, or the pre-announcement meeting. But there was a new addition: Google Earth …
Modeled Noise Data results are incomplete in the Draft Environmental Assessment. The 4(f) noise data included with the EA has some interesting features, and shows trends, but its random site distribution is problematic to larger generalizations about population impacts. We need a more thorough release of the noise data. ##### Subject: Request Full Results from …
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I still want to know where the aircraft are going to fly. Turns out there is an exhibit that does that. Exhibit 3-8 takes advantage of advanced features of PDFs to allow. By opening up the layer function on the left pane of the PDF reader, one can click on flight track names for each airport and overlay flight …
The draft EA and supplementary materials are missing way-points making it impossible to map the changes. One of the first tasks I had was to find out where these new flight paths were. I wanted to put them on a map and discover which houses and neighborhoods these new concentrated flight paths would overfly. Through …
The FAA released Southern California’s Draft Environmental Assessment(EA) which redesigns the airspace from Santa Barbara to San Diego, from Los Angeles to Palm Springs. The SoCal “Optimization of Airspace Procedures in the Metroplex” (OAPM) project will replace dozens of existing conventional air traffic patterns with new, more precise Nextgen satellite-based procedures. Sounds great, or is …