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FAA is the Problem In five years of working to understand and to remedy the problem of recreational flying over private homes we have come to one inescapable conclusion. The root cause of the problem is the FAA. FAA continues to ignore the will of Congress and the American People as it promotes the unbridled expansion of all forms of aviation. FAA seems to operate on the principle that anything related to aviation is inherently good and that therefore more of a good thing must be better. By FAA's standards anything having to do with aviation is worth lying to the American people about. Read why it is necessary expose the FAA. The reality here is that all aviation activities are harmful to those below and around them. The harm takes many forms such as noise, air pollution, fuel dumps/leaks, blue ice bombs, weather changes and the impact upon private property on the ground not owned by the aircraft operator. The role of FAA, in managing the easement it has seized through our skies, must be that of regulator so as to allow only those activities that can clearly demonstrate that a greater good is served in order to outweigh the harm to private property owners and the general public. FAA behaves as though the only time the public is harmed by an aircraft is when that aircraft falls on someone's head. If the airplanes crashes in your field, woods or unoccupied home then that's really not a big deal as far as FAA is concerned. After all; you didn't get hurt. If you want to deal with the harmful effects of noise, FAA starts out by telling you that noise is not really a problem for most people. If the noise exceeds a comic-book-science threshold known as 65 DNL, then FAA tells you to either move away or move inside and let them sound proof your home. That's some solution. They want to fly so you have to live indoors for the rest of your life. Do they think we are hamsters? When a little airport starts to attract more aircraft or larger aircraft, soon safety is compromised because the aircraft are too large for the runway or the number of operations exceeds the existing runway capacity. The airport operator decides that more money can be made by catering to the larger aircraft and increased traffic. The operator tells the community and FAA that the airport must expand to remain safe. The FAA will announce that safety is compromised because the runway is too small for the aircraft. Because safety is FAA's first priority, the correct action is to restrict the unsafe aircraft from the airport. This would keep the airport a small, sleepy little backwater airport. This is not what FAA does. The actual FAA response is to declare that the airport must be expanded. FAA will come in armed will a box of your hard-earned money offering to "improve" the airport. They will tell a community that safety is compromised unless the community allows the airport operator to expand. They tell the community that FAA will pay for most of the "improvements". This "free money", of course, obligates the community to let FAA make the rules at the airport for the next twenty years. This is the evil "Airport Improvement Program". If you want to stop airport expansion, you must learn to say NO to "free" money from FAA. Stop taking AIP money and you can control your destiny. It may take ten to twenty years, but that's still shorter than eternity. An alternative is to change the laws so that the obligations incurred under the AIP are rescinded. This will take an act of Congress. A third alternative is to pay back the money received that has incurred the current obligations. All of these require the same thing - elected officials who are responsive to our wishes, not those of the aviation industry. All of these things require guts on the part of elected officials willing to make the hard decisions when the easy decision is to accept FAA's box of taxpayer dollars and to serve the moneyed aviation special interests. The best way to be sure the right person is elected is to run yourself. That's how America works. Leave your day job for a few years and perform a public service. Government is no place for career politicians. "This needs to become something that someone can get elected on."
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