Quote of the Week: "The EU emissions trading scheme is better than nothing, but it will have a tiny impact on aviation emissions, while giving the illusion that the issue is being addressed." Friends of the Earth aviation campaigner, Richard Dyer, in a Dec. 20th news story
Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter #409.........................................................................December 31, 2006 Past newsletters can be accessed at: http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm The PASSUR airport flight tracking system at many major U.S. airports http://www.passur.com/sites.htm (you must have Java installed to view it). If you want to get the newsletter sent to you every week, sign up to AviationWatch. Bill Mulcahy rockaway@prodigy.net
Environmentalists Criticize EU's Aviation Pollution Reduction Plan!!!
As
Bill
Sees It: (Editorial)
Using New Technology To Fight Aviation Expansion: Just as the FAA and the
aviation industry uses technology to expand their highly polluting industry on their victims
so to the victims should use technology to fight them. So this week I am
starting to use video in the Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter. Although this is
the first time I've put a video on the Internet, and I admit it's not that
good, I do have had a lot of experience
making videos for public access TV. Future videos will be much better when
hopefully I get over this lousy cold. I still have to figure how better
to integrate the video into the newsletter; maybe I need a new web site editing
program. I think newsletters like mine are being overtaken over by "blogs"
where there can be more 
videos and interactivity with those who read them. I fully support
that and think that's where the Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter is going. FAA
Alleged To Be Listening To Delaware Complaints About Airspace Redesign Scheme: I
saw two news articles about how the FAA is supposed to be "listening"
to the complaints of Deleware residents who are apparently just waking up (no
pun intended) to the fact that they are about to be hit with increased noise
from the Philadelphia Airport expansion. Of course, all this means is that
political pressure has been brought on them probably by the recent Democrat
winning back control of congress. If residents of Delaware county do get a
reprieve it will mean some other poor politically weak, possibly poor and/or
minority, will be getting their overflights.
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Important Aviation News Stories This Week
Delaware County Residents May Not Need Ear PlugsThu, 28 Dec '06 http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=f1b649e3-57b9-4c57-9439-cda6046abe08
Delaware
County Council Chairman Andrew Reilly announced at the council's Dec 12 meeting
he had secured an agreement from Steve Kelley, an FAA project manager, to
consider mitigation proposals in the continuing fight over traffic rerouting in
the New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania region.
The FAA has developed a rerouting plan for air traffic in the region. Current traffic routes are all but saturated at peak times and delays are becoming more and more common. The FAA proposal is supposed to alleviate the congestion and allow more flights.
The council has campaigned strongly to stop the FAA-proposed airspace redesign because it believes the plan would route more traffic over Delaware County. Apparantly it reached the conclusion if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, and started developing rerouting proposals of its own.
At a recent meeting, Reilly said the council's aviation consultant, Williams Aviation Consultants (WAC), has recommended a departure procedure for Philadelphia Intentional Airport which the Reilly says he will present to Senator Arlen Specter and Senator-elect Bob Casey in Washington DC.
WAC recommended the FAA require traffic departing Philadelphia's runway 27 remain over the river until passing 3000 feet.
Reilly
told the DelcoTimes, "This is good news for Delaware County. As a direct
result of our efforts, the FAA is going to consider our recommendations,
including a recommendation to keep planes over the Delaware River until they
reach an altitude of 3,000 feet before they can fan out over the region."
He added his county is one of five areas the FAA is considering mitigation proposals in the airspace redesign.
"Here, in Delaware County, we made our voices heard. We met with the project manager, and he agreed to consider any recommendations we had. We already had those recommendations prepared and handed them to him that day (of the meeting). We are still prepared to go to court over this if the FAA does not respond, but the fact that the FAA is considering our proposals is a step forward," said Reilly.
The council has posted a petition on its website allowing residents to voice their opinion to the FAA.
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