bill mulcahy

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Quote of the Week: "Chicago's airspace is already the most congested in the
nation. The city's consultants simply ignored this,'' Sen. Fitzgerald
commenting on safety of O'Hare Airport expansion plan

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Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter
#256.........................................Janua ry 25 , 2004 Past
newsletters can be accessed at:
http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm Bill Mulcahy
rockaway@prodigy.net

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FAA Threatens O'Hare Airport Communities With Night Flights!!!

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As Bill Sees It: (Editorial): Media Hypes Phony "Scale Back" Of O'Hare Airport
Flights: The O'Hare Expansion Plan atrocity is getting even nastier. This week
the news media ran false headlines that announced that the FAA was going to
make the airlines "scale back" flights at O'Hare Airport. They said this was
because of because of "increased delays." While I knew that the only thing
that makes delays at airports is the danger of a impeding disaster, I was
surprised that the FAA was actually going to to reduce flights!!! But of
course the FAA isn't going to reduce flights at all at O'Hare. They are going
to move the "cut" flights from the daytime and "redistribute" them to the
nighttime hours. This will of course increase the sleep disturbance of the
already heavily impacted O'hare Airport communities!!! Of course this little
fact was barely mentioned in the news stories. I believe this shifting of
flights into the night hours will also give the FAA and the airport the
opportunity to threaten and punish communities which have fought the O'Hare
Expansion Plan. Perhaps they will be selected for one of the FAA's infamous
"preferential" late-night overflight routes.

How The FAA Uses "Preferential" Night Routes As A Punishment For Local
Communities Fighting Noise: As the FAA is the most vicious, petty and
conniving government agency ever to contaminate a government, I would not be
surprised if the phony O'Hare flight "scale back" will be done to intimidate
those communities which have been fighting the O'Hare Expansion Plan. I know
from personal experience (see story at right) that the FAA has selected
communities who give them trouble by selecting to use "preferential" nighttime
overflight routes against them. They then cleverly use the media to tout this
as a noise reducing effort!!! This "preferential" night routing is used not
only to punish communities that protest their policy, it is also used as a
tool to play communities off against each other. To achieve this noble goal
the FAA bosses turn to their nefarious Office of Environment and Energy (AKA
the Office of Technical Excuses) whose job is to find reasons to dump on the
troublesome communities.

New York City's Aviation Organization Gets A New Web Site: I see that New York
City's Sane Aviation For Everyone (SAFE) has a new web site. I recently
resigned from SAFE as a vice president and the "national" noise organization,
Citizen's Aviation Watch (CAW), although not formerly yet, because of
differences with Frans Verhagen (pictures at left and right), who is president
of both organizations. Frans is now retired from teaching and supposedly will
spend more of his time on aviation issues. I can't say I like the new web site
better than the old one (which I designed), but it is better than I thought
Frans would come up with. I will keep the old site for a few years with a link
to the new site, even though Frans has not put a link to my newsletter on his
SAFE site. I will also watch both groups VERY closely to make sure they are
not working with the Aviation Cabal to "sustain" (Frans' favorite word is
sustainability) aviation or its expansion.

Florida Computer Glitch Grounds Planes: A "software glitch" knocked out
computers, grounded flights and according to a news story "made it impossible
for Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center to know the location of
high-altitude planes flying into airspace stretching from the Panhandle to
South Carolina." After the Florida incident the FAA spokesman said this "did
not put passengers in danger" (yeah, right).

Reduced Vertical Separation Of Planes Means Reduced Safety: With the FAA
dangerously cutting by one half safety distances between planes beginning
January 20, 2005 to "improve airport capacity;" how long will it be before
there is a collision or another wake turbulence crash in the U.S.? Only the
FAA degenerates would dare to say that reducing the legally allowed distances
of aircraft isn't a reduction of safety in our overcrowded skies!!! What will
the FAA's Administrator, (her ugliness) Marion Blakey, excuse be when there is
a collision because of a software "glitch" like what happened in Florida this
week?

Sen. Fitzgerald: Expansion Would Change O'Hare Into A "Truly Frightening
Airport:" Senator Fitzgerald A new report by a former Federal Aviation
Administration official indicates Chicago's plan to expand O'Hare Airport
would turn O'Hare into a "truly frightening airport'' due to congested
airspace and other problems, Sen. Peter G. Fitzgerald (R-Ill.) charged Monday.
Fitzgerald charged that a new ****ysis by Joseph Del Balzo of JDA Aviation
Technology indicates the city ignored the expansion's impact on airspace
congestion, and used other flawed assumptions in crafting its O'Hare
Modernization Program. The new report was commissioned by the mayors of
Bensenville and Elk Grove Village.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-hare20.html Fitzgerald not giving
up O'Hare fight: Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.) -- a watchdog against
corruption and boondoggling -- is staging a dramatic, last-ditch stand against
Mayor Daley's O'Hare expansion plan to forestall what key experts say may well
be a threat to public safety, a huge waste of taxpayer money and a hindrance
to civil aviation. http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeser/cst-edt-roes24.html

Grand Canyon Air Tour Pilots Critical Of Proposed New FAA Rules: LAS VEGAS
(AP) - New federal rules for sightseeing air tours are drawing criticism from
pilots and tour operators who fly over the Grand Canyon and southern Nevada
landmarks. The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday extended a public
comment period to April 19, after pilots and flight organizations from across
the country submitted more than 1,200 comments. The rules were announced in
October. The rules, based on recommendations from the National Transportation
Safety Board, would affect 2,100 tour operators nationwide. They would install
"basic safety requirements" for an industry that saw more than 100 accidents
in the 1990s, the FAA has said.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2004/jan/19/011910825.html

Illinois: Low-Flying Helicopter Incidents Bother Resident John Menke: On his
web site John Menke says "Helicopters & boom-boxes are terrorizing Mt. Vernon,
Illinois. Why isn't something being done to stop it? Huge new helicopter noise
record in October 2003" Read a newspaper articles about his complaint by
clicking here and here.

INDIA: Doctor Says Airport Is Causing Deafness!!! HYDERABAD: Incidence of
sensory neural deafness is on a rise among residents in surrounding areas of
Begumpet airport, thanks to the noise pollution from the flights even during
the night time. With the proposed expansion of runway by 460 metres for
allowing 747 Boeing, the future is scary for the residents. The Boeing has
four engines pumping out nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide, carbon non oxide and
other poisonous gases. There has definitely been a rise in cases of sensory
neural deafness because of the noise pollution, senior consultant, ENT
surgeon, Dr Venu Gopal Reddy who works at Krishna Institute of Medical
Sciences told The Times of India. Dr Venu claims that such deafness is usually
caused in the age group of 65 to 70 years. But among residents near the
airport, it is seen among those between 55 to 65 years, he said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/403426.cms

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.: Computer Glitch Erases Jacksonville Flight Plans, Grounds
Planes: A software problem caused Federal Aviation Administration computers to
erase flight plans, grounding regional air traffic for more than an hour. The
computer glitch at an operations center in Hilliard made it impossible for
Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center to know the location of
high-altitude planes flying into airspace stretching from the Panhandle to
South Carolina, FAA spokesman Christopher White said. As a precaution, planes
scheduled to enter the area were grounded until the problem was fixed.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/7778947.htm

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Important Aviation News Stories This Week

Foes: Skies can't handle O'Hare expansion

January 20, 2004

BY ROSALIND ROSSI Staff Reporter

A new report by a former Federal Aviation Administration official indicates
Chicago's plan to expand O'Hare Airport would turn O'Hare into a "truly
frightening airport'' due to congested airspace and other problems, Sen. Peter
G. Fitzgerald (R-Ill.) charged Monday.

Although city officials disputed the new report, which was commissioned by
expansion opponents, Fitzgerald said it indicates the danger, disruption, and
air and land congestion the expansion would cause is not worth the minimum
400,000 new landings it would add to the world's busiest airport.

Fitzgerald charged that a new ****ysis by Joseph Del Balzo of JDA Aviation
Technology indicates the city ignored the expansion's impact on airspace
congestion, and used other flawed assumptions in crafting its O'Hare
Modernization Program. The new report was commissioned by the mayors of
Bensenville and Elk Grove Village.

"Chicago's airspace is already the most congested in the nation. The city's
consultants simply ignored this,'' Fitzgerald said at a news conference
Monday. "It's possible to add more runways but you can't add more airspace.''

Del Bazo's report charged that the city did not consider flights from Midway,
Milwaukee, DuPage County and other surrounding airports that overlap the air
routes of planes from O'Hare, already the worst-delayed airport in the nation.
It called this a "glaring deficiency.'' At Monday's news conference, Del Baso
said the city's plan would turn the skies above O'Hare into "an accident
waiting to happen.''

Two other FAA officials, David Hinton and Jonathan Howe, were so troubled by
Del Baso's report that they have volunteered their own time to guide further
****ysis, Del Baso said.

However, Rosemarie Andolino, executive director of the O'Hare Modernization
Plan, said airspace comments by the FAA cited in Del Bazo's report were made
in response to the city's original plan. That plan has since been revised and
has not triggered any FAA concerns about air congestion, Andolino said.

The city has run every simulation requested by the FAA and "Our plan took into
account FAA industry standards,'' Andolino said. "I'm confident they know how
to operate an airport effectively and would give us the correct modeling.''

Del Baso's report also charged that the city overestimated the percent of
excellent weather conditions under which pilots and air traffic controllers
normally operate at O'Hare. It said the city assumed that planes would hold 13
more passengers per plane than they currently average, and ignored increased
taxiing time of three minutes per plane that the new runway configuration
would cause.

Fitzgerald said the Kennedy Expy., the Northwest Tollway and O'Hare Airport
terminals would have to be expanded to handle the new passengers filing into
O'Hare, raising the total bill to $15 billion to add "a puny 400,000 more
passengers'' a year to O'Hare.

Any road changes required by the plan must be addressed by the state, not the
city, Andolino said. But the runway upgrades are necessary to enhance O'Hare's
efficiency and maintain its standing as an economic engine for the Chicago
area, she said.

"If we had a modern airfield, we wouldn't have the problems we have today,''
Andolino said.

"These are paid consultants who are trying to justify themselves . . . by
casting aspersions on our program. We are working the with real guys, the real
FAA and those are the people we need to work with.''

tom mosher

You still don't understand RVSM, do you? RVSM does not increase airport
capacity, it increases AIRSPACE capacity. How can reducing the vertical
separation of aircraft operating at FL290 and above increase airport
capacity.

Would you please stop commenting on a subject you have absolutely ZERO
knowledge of?

Tom Mosher

orval fairbairn

Wasn't Inspectour Clouseau trying to find a "Rhoum" for his "Menke"?