Quote of the Week: "It's not distant, it's roaring, on some of the passes, literally you can see stuff underneath the airplane." resident of community near O'Hare Airport that had previously been spared from noise and now experiencing it
Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter #288.......................................September 5th, 2004 Past newsletters can be accessed at: http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm The PASSUR airport flight tracking system at http://www.passur.com/sites.htm (you must have Java installed to view it) Bill Mulcahy rockaway@prodigy.net
FAA's
"Airspace Redesign" 
Plan
Stalled?:
As
Bill Sees It: (Editorial)
FAA
SLOWLY Preparing New York City's Rockaway
Beach For A Fourteen Month Night Flight Concentration Horror!!!
Although the 14 month repaving project has not started yet, the FAA
sadists have already started preparing their Rockaway Beach victims by slowly increasing their nightly jumbo jet assault.
The August 12th New York Newsday two-page foldout JFK Airport routing graphic displayed (see
picture detail on right) a rough idea what the community of Rockaway
Beach and a Long Island community is going to be hit with later this month.
Even though the airport and the FAA could use another parallel runway while the
repaving is being done, they have heard they are closing BOTH parallel runways
and once again use Rockaway Beach as the sole dumping ground for JFK nighttime flight noise.
By the way, the lines in the picture going over Lawrence, Long Island are for
planes flying very high, 
with little or no noise.JFK Airport Repaving Plan Part
Of The Airspace Redesign Conspiracy? I'm
sorry if I'm focusing so much recently on New York City metropolitan airports,
but when I recently discovered an effort by the FAA to increase their ALREADY
unjust, discriminatory routing practices, I had to expose it. Maybe it will help
others with their FAA politically influenced airspace redesign plan. Somehow
I think the JFK Airport "repaving" plan, which will inflict even more
deadly nighttime noise on Rockaway Beach, for fourteen months, is somehow
involved in this redesign plan mess. I say its a mess because I see in the FAA
NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign Quarterly "Report
to Congress" that the FAA originally tried to get this plan's final
approval by 2003; but now it is years away. I have started to dig through
my old correspondence with the FAA and Port Authority on JFK Airport issues
that go back to 1992 and I found the old
outrage growing!!! Thank God for blood
pressure medication.
But at least now I know a lot more about how the FAA/New
York/New Jersey Port Authority airplane routing injustice system works, and how
to better expose them. The FAA Falsely Portrays A Community After
They Decide To Dump On 
Them:
After the FAA gets moved by local political
influence to protect one community and dump on another, they then have to justify it. The FAA knows from long experience
in assaulting Americans to slowly build up a major plane routing change.
This is so they will get less of a community backlash from their victims. But the
FAA does everything they can to avoid responsibility for their crimes against
communities. As I showed in last week's
newsletter, although the airport cannot move a plane without FAA approval,
the FAA "claims" routing decisions are the airport's responsibility!!!
Chart Shows The Number Of Night Flights
The People Of Rockaway Beach Will Get!!! Concentration
of flights over one community is the FAA's 
way of
violating environmental justice laws and "reducing the
numbers" of people impacted by noise. They have dumped JFK's nighttime
flights on Rockaway Beach before. However, with the increase in JFK Airport
nighttime air cargo operations, this will mean a hundred or more 80 plus decibel
noise
spikes a night to wreck the health and sleep of one community!!! I'm going to follow this
14
month long JFK Airport runway repaving project very closely because I believe it doesn't pass
the smell test. It is interesting that it is being 
done
at the same time as the New York/New Jersey Airspace Redesign is being done. I
don't believe that is a coincidence. Perhaps they plan to make it
PERMANENT!!! TVASNAC And NJCAAN:
Environmental Justice Or Special Interest Lobbying Group Discrimination? Speaking
of the New York/ New Jersey Airspace Redesign Project, 
I
see that New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise seems to have gotten the
FAA to accept their "over water" route plan which the FAA has said in
the past was discriminatory against Staten Island. Whenever
I think of this group I think that these are the same type of people who are in
Lawrence, Long Island. They seem to use their wealth (the medium income
is $96,000) and political power,
not to fight airport expansion, but to lobby the Port Authority and FAA to divert flights away from them and over
their poorer and politically weaker neighbors!!! While TVASNAC uses the "over water" ploy,
NJCAAN has the "ocean routing" plan. This plan has planes
from Jersey's Newark Airport, which is many, many miles from the
ocean, fly over already heavily impacted Staten Island in New York City before
they get to the "ocean." Somehow that fact is ignored by NJCAAN.
How come there is no illustration of NJCANN's over ocean plan on their web site.
What are they hiding? The recent Airspace Redesign Report Congress said their are "significant changes" to New York
Metropolitan Airspace. Communities that are going to get unfairly dumped on
should watch what the FAA is doing and start calling their representatives
and hiring lawyers NOW!!!
Noise Linked To Heart Attacks!!!
Chronic noise exposure may increase your risk of heart attack, according to
German researchers who interviewed more than 4,000 heart attack patients
admitted to Berlin hospitals between 1998 and 2001. The researchers looked at to
what extent the patients had been bothered by annoying noises from sources like
traffic, industrial sites, or construction zones. SOURCES:
European Society of Cardiology Congress 2004, Munich, Germany, Aug. 28-Sept. 1,
2004. News release, European Society of Cardiology. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/03/health/webmd/main640937.shtml
Airlines
Sweat Perfect Storm Frances: 
Hurricane
Frances is converging with other calamities to form the perfect storm for the
nation's beleaguered airlines. Hundreds of flights to Florida from New York were
canceled this weekend because of the approaching storm, which is expected to hit
Florida this afternoon or evening. The airlines were forced to halt flights in
and out of Orlando and Fort Lauderdale and scale back travel to Miami, Tampa,
West Palm Beach, Jacksonville and Fort Myers. A spokesman for American estimated
that as many as 350 flights would be canceled. Frances will contribute to an
already brutal year for the airline industry. On top of higher jet fuel
prices, there is a growing threat from low-cost airlines and increasing
resistance in Washington to bailing out the industry. http://www.nypost.com/business/28059.htm
Security
Scare Closes LA Airport For Several Hours: The Los Angeles International
Airport was closed Saturday for several hours because of concerns about two
security-related incidents. Airport officials said the two separate incidents,
which were initially thought to be linked, caused authorities to evacuate the
international terminal and three domestic terminals. In the first incident, a
person was observed entering a passenger waiting area without going through the
proper security procedures. Later, batteries inside a passenger's plastic
flashlight exploded during a security screening, causing minor injuries to
several airport employees. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6151714
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Major Airlines Try to Fly Above Financial Failure: Three of the nation's
largest airlines could be operating under bankruptcy protection in coming weeks,
analysts say, the latest sign of the industry's upheaval as it lurches through a
historic transformation. 
which is struggling to lower costs, looks increasingly like a
candidate for Chapter 11. A triple bankruptcy hasn't hit the industry since
1992, when Continental Airlines, Trans World Airlines and America West Airlines
were all in Chapter 11. At the time, the industry was stronger than it is
now, and the bankrupt carriers affected only 19 percent of the country's airline
operations, according to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. analyst Jamie Baker. Editor's
Note: Then again this could all be a ploy to squeeze out more concessions from
employees. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54510-2004Sep1.html
O'Hare
Airport: Community Complaining About About NEW Noise!!!
Among its other selling points as a North Shore town, Wilmette's location and
distance from O'Hare International Airport has insulated residents from the roar
of jet engines that torments homeowners living fewer than 10 miles away. For
reasons that aviation officials can't fully explain this week, that peace broke
down in Lynne Miller's neighborhood along the Evanston border. Since early
August, Miller said she has had almost constant traffic over her Crescent Place
home. "It's not
distant, it's roaring," Miller said. "On some of the passes, literally
you can see stuff underneath the airplane. I grew up in Park Ridge and its sort
of like being there again." The Federal Aviation Administration, which is
responsible for air traffic surrounding the airport, believes wind conditions
are the most likely explanation. Editor's Note: the only wind that the FAA
pays attention to is the political wind. http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/ev/09-02-04-374863.html
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Important Aviation News Stories This Week
Noise,
Heart Attacks Linked
Sept. 3, 2004
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/03/health/webmd/main640937.shtml
WebMD) Sshh, your heart needs a little peace and
quiet.
Chronic noise exposure may increase your risk of heart attack, according to
German researchers who interviewed more than 4,000 heart attack patients
admitted to Berlin hospitals between 1998 and 2001. The researchers looked at to
what extent the patients had been bothered by annoying noises from sources like
traffic, industrial sites, or construction zones.
Participants were asked about the noises, their sources, and how vexing the
sounds had been. The researchers also considered traffic around the patients'
homes and calculated how much noise they had been exposed to at work over a
10-year period.
For women, environmental noises were a health hazard. Those who reported
annoying environmental noises were 50 percent more likely to have had a heart
attack than those who didn't report them.
Men weren't affected by environmental noises, but noisy workplaces made them 30
percent more likely to have a heart attack. Workplace noise didn't seem to
bother a woman's heart.
Studies have suggested chronic noise exposure causes stress, which leads to
increases in blood pressure and changes in cholesterol. These changes can
contribute to the development of heart disease.
How much noise is too much? It's hard to say, since people respond differently
to sounds.
"For example, if your neighbor is playing the piano, it may be extremely
annoying despite a low noise level, while going to the opera may be extremely
loud, but pleasurable," says researcher Stefan Willich in a news release.
Willich presented the study at a meeting of the European Society of Cardiology.
SOURCES: European Society of Cardiology Congress 2004, Munich,
Germany, Aug. 28-Sept. 1, 2004. News release, European Society of Cardiology.