Aviation Conspiracy: FAA Airspace Redesign Equated With Terrorism!!!

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Quote of the Week: "The FAA plan will do more harm to the city of Elizabeth
than any terrorist incident," comment from Elizabeth, New Jersey Mayor Chris
Bollwage in a Associated Press story this week on increased noise impacts
from the FAA's Airspace Redesign scheme

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FAA Airspace Redesign Equated With Terrorism!!!

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As Bill Sees It (Editorial): Airspace Redesign Increased Noise Pollution IS
Terrorism!!! I totally agree with the Elisabeth, New Jersey mayor's
description of the FAA's plan as "terrorism." I would even go further. A
terrorist bomb is usually only a one time event, while increased aviation
noise roaring day and NIGHT over communities is endless torture. This kind
of torture on human beings should be banned, not increased!!! "Our" federal
government, has developed noise weapons for the battlefield has also been
accused of using noise as way of torturing enemy prisoners!!! Perhaps they
used the FAA to help develop their plan. The FAA, however, cares little for
the health and welfare of American citizens as the push their pro-aviation
industry airport capacity increasing scheme down the throats (and ears) of
their victims. They are rushing to implement their scheme despite legal
challenges and before the GAO study of the noise and health impacts is
done. I know what its like to be a victim of an FAA route changing scheme.
When I lived in Rockaway, New York City, the FAA selected my community as
the "preferred" late night overflight route for nighttime planes using
unscientific, phony justifications to back up their decision. At the same
time they were telling other communities how they were solving their
increasing late night aircraft noise problem. This is how this vile agency
works.

Calls For Aviation Committee Head To Resign!!! I see a Rockland County, New
York legislator has called for the resignation of House Transportation
Committee and the House Subcommittee on Aviation former chairman, John Mica.
Personally I would like to see him put in jail. If we ever get a real
congressional ethics committee operating in Washington I believe he would
be. Aviation activists should look closer into this guy's activities, and
not just his pushing aviation expansion on American's. He's as phony as his
bad hairpiece. One news story described Mica as a "career mouthpiece for the
FAA and the rich aero community, Mica recognizes no value beyond the smell
of spent jet-fuel and the crinkled-paper sound of a handed-over almighty
Dollar." Of course now that the democrats have taken over this committee
there has been no policy changes. Everyone concerned about aviation
expansion should quit the corrupt democrat and republican parties.

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New York Environmentalists Call For Representative John L. Mica (R-Fl.) To
Resign From The House Transportation Committee And Aviation Subcommittee!!!
Rockland County, NY - January 7, 2008: Fed-up with "stone-cold
anti-environmentalists" threatening their homes with unrelenting commercial
jumbo-jet overflights, and incredulous that an eight-term Congressman would
support the "already-failed, chronically-unsafe regime" of FAA Acting
Administrator Robert A. ( "Bobby" ) Sturgell, New York environmental group
"Quiet Rockland" has called for the resignation of hard-core extremist
conservative Representative John L. Mica ( R-Fl. ) from the U.S. House
Transportation Committee and the House Subcommittee on Aviation. Said John
J. Tormey III, an attorney with "Quiet Rockland": "It's time for Mica to
flake himself off from the American political landscape. His harmful
transportation legacy includes the Minnesota bridge collapse and Alaskan
"bridge to nowhere" fiasco each occurring under his watch. Mica's bald plugs
for the FAA and aviation over-expansionism are as tiresome as an "Apply
directly to the forehead!" TV commercial - as well as hazardous to innocent
American people. Through long-distance cyber-contribution to the political
process, 'Quiet Rockland' will afford every assistance to help the informed
electorate in Florida's Seventh District chip Mica and his cronies away from
elected office in November. Any vote 'for Mica' would be a vote for Mica's
vacuous petro-plastic culture. Yet aviation safety and the environment
require an approach far less inanimate, and one far more sentient and human.
John L. Mica is incapable of anything so organic. As career mouthpiece for
the FAA and the rich aero community, Mica recognizes no value beyond the
smell of spent jet-fuel and the crinkled-paper sound of a handed-over
almighty Dollar. We embrace the wisdom of clean open space and
peace-and-quiet, in lieu of further Mica-forced inhalation of fossil-fuel
for the sake of someone else's quick-and-dirty paper profit. The
governmental function of objective aviation regulation must be reinstituted.
The stewardship currently feigned by Sturgell and Mica must be scissored
out. Costs of their ouster should now be for the airlines to pay.
http://media-newswire.com/release_1059362.html

Greenwich, Connecticut Rethinks FAA Lawsuit!!! Greenwich, which once helped
lead the fight against the Federal Aviation Administration's controversial
aircraft rerouting plan, might be getting cold feet over a lawsuit it and
several neighboring municipalities filed against the agency. "At this point
in time, I personally have a number of reservations about continuing the
lawsuit," said Erica Purnell, co-chairman of the Selectmen's Advisory
Committee on Aircraft Noise. Along with 10 other municipalities and the
state itself, the town sued the FAA in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Second District of New York in early November over its new flight paths over
Fairfield County, arguing that the agency failed to take residents' noise
and other environmental concerns into account when developing the plan. But
a number of the committee's members, which has advised the Board of
Selectmen on the matter, have raised concerns about the coalition's ability
to win the legal battle and are issuing warnings about committing more
taxpayer money to the effort.
http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/local/scn-gt-a1faa1.8jan08,0,2617984.story?coll=green-news-local-headlines
Editor's Note: It looks as if the FAA strategy is working, at least in
Greenwich, Connecticut. When the FAA route change gets going full blast
they'll be sorry they didn't fight it tooth and nail.

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Important Aviation News
Stories This Week

Plan to Reroute Jets May Mean More Noise

By DAVID B. CARUSO -
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j95LH_Ar_kzcatmfi_yHOnvVWnfQD8U39HC80

NEW YORK (AP) - For years, jets taking off from Newark Liberty International
Airport have performed an act of mercy as they roar south.

Moments after leaving the ground, the planes bank left, out over an
industrial port district, and away from the residential streets of
Elizabeth, N.J., the working-class city that sits right up against the busy
airport.

Maneuvers like this are a common method of sparing citizens from the
window-rattling noise of jets passing overhead.

But now such practices are being dropped in some places in the Northeast as
part of a federal plan to ease record flight delays. And some neighborhoods
that fear they will be subjected to more noise are fighting back in court.

On Dec. 19, the Federal Aviation Administration began its first overhaul in
decades of the jet routes that crisscross the country's most congested
airspace - a 31,000-square-mile area around New York and Philadelphia.

The corridor has been criticized for years as one of the worst problem spots
in the nation's beleaguered air traffic system. Most the paths were laid out
in the 1960s. Some date from the earliest days of air travel, and airlines
have been complaining for years that they are horribly outdated.

Over the next five years, the FAA will be rolling out new routes it believes
can cut flight delays by as much as 20 percent. Some aviation experts say
improvements are essential; nearly three quarters of all flight delays
nationally are caused by backups in New York and Philadelphia.

But a closer look at the revamped flight routes shows that the changes will
lead to more noise for tens of thousands of people, many of whom are already
subject to the whine of jet engines because of their proximity to airports.

In Elizabeth, N.J., the changes will mean that some planes will fly straight
over the center of the city.

"The FAA plan will do more harm to the city of Elizabeth than any terrorist
incident," said Mayor Chris Bollwage.

"We live next to the airport, so we have to take some noise," he said. But
the FAA plan, he added, stretches fairness. "There are places in town where
you can touch the tires."

At least 12 lawsuits have been filed so far in an attempt to stop the plan.
Congress ordered the Government Accountability Office to examine the FAA's
method for choosing the new routes. Top lawmakers from several states have
demanded changes. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., threatened to block Senate
confirmation of acting FAA administrator Robert Sturgell if the agency
doesn't halt implementation.

So far, the complaints haven't stopped the FAA. Last month, the agency began
phasing in new traffic patterns at the Newark and Philadelphia airports that
allow departing planes to fan out in several directions as they climb,
rather than stick to a single path.

In theory, the change will allow more takeoffs per hour, but outside
Philadelphia it will also mean more planes over a cluster of suburbs in
Delaware County, just west of the airport.

Since the first of the changes went into effect in Philadelphia on Dec. 19,
the airport said it has been getting three complaints a day about noise,
compared with about one every two days in the previous three months.

FAA officials say the airspace redesign will actually lead to a reduction in
noise for a majority of people, largely because the changes will allow
planes to fly at higher altitudes.

But sound-modeling data released by the agency reveals that the gains and
losses will not be spread evenly. Loud neighborhoods will, on average, be
getting louder, while the biggest improvements will be in places that aren't
that noisy to begin with.

According to the FAA, an additional 30,600 people will find themselves
living in neighborhoods where the average daily aircraft noise level is 60
to 65 decibels - considered the high edge of tolerable for a residential
area.

Noise at that level is far from earsplitting; experts say it is less than
residents might experience if they lived next to a busy road. But it is loud
enough that people have to raise their voices as a plane passes overhead.

The number of people living in areas where the average decibel level is
between 55 and 60 will rise by 79,813.

The big losers will be a few communities near Newark and Philadelphia that
already hear a good deal of airplane traffic because of their proximity to
the airports. There will also be a slight to moderate increase in noise in
parts of Morris and Sussex counties in northern New Jersey.

The big winners are people who live a little farther away, and now hear a
medium amount of noise.

By 2011, the FAA estimates that there will be nearly 728,650 fewer people
living in areas where the daily noise level is between 45 and 55 decibels -
louder than a refrigerator hum, but quieter than two people talking in a
room.

Many of those people are in a corridor running southwest from New Brunswick,
N.J. There will also be noise benefits in pockets of densely populated Essex
County, N.J., which includes Newark, and parts of northeastern Pennsylvania.

The opposition is not just coming from areas likely to see big changes.

Fourteen municipalities in western Connecticut have been trying to get the
plan blocked, largely because it will shift an arrival path for New York's
LaGuardia Airport eastward, creating what the FAA says will be slightly more
noise for some towns in Connecticut.

"It's a quality-of-life issue," said Rudy Marconi, a spokesman for the
Alliance for Sensible Airspace Planning and a selectman in Ridgefield,
Conn., 40 miles northeast of LaGuardia. "Will I get used to it? Probably.
But should I have to get used to it?"

date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:16:43 GMT author: Population Stabilizer