Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter #478........................................................................April 28, 2008 Past newsletters can be accessed at: http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm If you want to get the newsletter sent to you every week, sign up to AviationWatch. Bill Mulcahy rockaway@prodigy.net
Quote of the Week: "you have aligned yourself with the aviation industry interests by opposing flight caps." from a letter to Senator Schumer from New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise (NJCAAN) and Ourspace
Schumer Blasted On
Airport Flight "Caps" Position!!!
As
Bill Sees It (Editorial): German
Youtube Video Highlights Aviation "Chemtrails!!! You
don't have to understand the language to be impressed with the pictures of
airplanes spewing pollution into "our" skies. While some scientists
say that aviation contributes only 3 % percent of CO2 pollution to the air they
usually fail to mention that these planes deliver their pollution into the upper
atmosphere where it can stay (and accumulate) for 100 years!!! Read a 2006 USA
Today story
on it. New Jersey Groups
Blast Senator Schumer On Airport Flight "Caps!!!" I'm glad to
see that Senator "Chuck" Schumer is finally being exposed for the
aviation industry expansion agent, con man and environmental criminal he
is. Two New Jersey environmental groups, OurAirspace
and NJCAAN who have been leading the fight against
the infamous FAA Airspace Redesign scheme co-signed (see letter below) the
letter to Schumer. I wish them good luck in trying to get Schumer to reverse his
opposition on airport expansion flight caps. Watch Schumer use the favorite
democrat political ploy of using other environmental issues to cover his support
of his support of a highly 
polluting
issue. No doubt we will soon see him getting news media attention with
an award from some environmental group for his support of biofuels, solar power
or using paper bags instead of plastic. Other
Pro-Aviation Expansion "Environmentalist"
DemocRAT Politician Con Men!!! A
good example of a
phony environmentalist politician is Rep. John Hall
(D-NY pictured on the left at a rally
for air passenger rights) in whose district a 4th major
N.Y. City "reliever" airport is being expanded. Hall refused to
have any environmental
study done on the acquisition and expansion of Stewart Airport in his district
by the N.Y. City metropolitan area airport operator, the Port Authority of NY
and NJ. This week Hall got media
attention for
pushing the "EPA to take the lead in Global Warming!!!" Stewart
Airport operations have TRIPLED this year over last year and
"environmentalist" politicians like Hall and his partner-in-crime,
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), gleefully predict even more doubling and tripling
of air traffic at Stewart!!!
12/19/2006
USA Today Article On Aviation And Global Warming: Aviation and the
environment are on a collision course. The number of airline flights worldwide
is growing and expected to skyrocket over the coming decades. Aircraft emissions
pollute the air and threaten by 2050 to become one of the largest contributors
to global warming, British scientists have concluded. Much
remains unknown about climate change and the role aviation plays, though climate
scientists express particular concern about jet emissions in the upper
atmosphere, where the warming effect from some pollutants is amplified.
Now, aviation is believed to be less a factor in the Earth's warming than power
plants or vehicular traffic. But its emissions are considerable. On a New
York-to-Denver flight, a commercial jet would generate 840 to 1,660 pounds of
carbon dioxide per passenger. That's about what an SUV generates in a month.
With the projected explosion in worldwide travel, air pollution from aviation is
a growing concern among scientists, and it's drawing increased scrutiny from
governments, particularly in Europe. NASA scientist Patrick Minnis has studied
contrails and believes they may have a prominent role in global warming. A 2002
report by the British scientific commission agrees, concluding that
"aviation-induced cirrus clouds will be a significant contributor to
warming." But Minnis says another NASA study concludes that the contrails
have little effect on global warming. Further research is being done. Carbon
dioxide is a heat-trapping gas that can remain in the atmosphere about 100 years.
Scientists say planes' engines emit up to 3% of all carbon dioxide that
contributes to global warming, but the figure appears to be on the rise. http://www.usatoday.com/money/biztravel/2006-12-18-jet-pollution-usat_x.htm
Editor's Note: Maybe somebody should send this article to environmental
con man Rep. John Hall who is behind the expansion of New York's Stewart
Airport.
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Important Aviation News Stories This Week
Letter To The "Honorable" Sen. Chuck Schumer By New Jersey Environmental Groups!!!!
Honorable
Senator Charles E. (Chuck) Schumer (D-NY)
United States Senator, United States Senate
RE:
Clarification On Opposition To Flight Caps
We
are writing to you because of your opposition to FAA efforts to introduce
"caps" on the number of aircraft that take off and land during key
periods. Our Airspace and the New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise (NJCAAN)
strongly disagree with this position and believe that the efforts will
effectively reduce delays and air emissions, while enhancing safety at the area
airports.
After careful study, the FAA has concluded that much of the regions delay
problems stem from attempts to press far more operations into key hourly slots
than can be accommodated even under the best of weather conditions. The FAA
reached out to the aviation industry to resolve the problem by limiting the
scheduling of flights. These efforts were unsuccessful. The FAA proposed
"caps" are perhaps the only way of ensuring that airspace and airport
capacity is effectively used. Caps also will promote safety.
However, you have aligned yourself with the aviation industry interests
by opposing flight caps.
A recent report published by the New York Comptroller titled “Soaring
Flight Delays Diminish NYC’s International and Domestic Competitiveness while
Increasing Local Pollution” highlights the excessive idle time that
aircraft spend on the metro airport runways that results from air carriers
over-scheduling operations*. (Note: see below chart and analysis related
to operations over-scheduling at Newark Airport and the relationship with
delays.) Taxi time is higher than the national average by 125% at Kennedy
Airport, 75% at LaGuardia, and 81% at Newark. The Comptroller’s report
highlights the significant increase in volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that is
generated from excessive idling. In addition, the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) has begun to introduce new low altitude flight patterns
over residential communities throughout the metropolitan area in its effort to
add incremental capacity to the area airports, which includes elimination of
long-established noise-abatement procedures. These efforts have devastating
effects on the residential communities and will be ineffective in resolving
delays.
Given that we believe that flight caps are the only feasible means to reduce
delays and taxi time, we are appealing to you to reverse your position, or at
least provide the informational basis for your position that delays can be
resolved without imposing flight caps.
Heather
V. Wolf
Executive Director
OurAirspace
contact@ourAirspace.org
Robert Belzer
President, NJCAAN
*
NY
Comptroller Report: Soaring Flight Delays Diminish NYC’s International and
Domestic Competitiveness while Increasing Local Pollution
“The average taxi-out—the period between gate departure and “wheels up”—has increased more in New York than elsewhere. For the first nine months of 2007, the average taxi-out time was 36 minutes at John F. Kennedy International Airport, 29 minutes at Newark Liberty International Airport, and 28 minutes at LaGuardia Airport. The national average was 16 minutes. Since 2003, the average taxi-out has increased by 14 minutes at Kennedy, four minutes at LaGuardia, and five minutes at Newark compared to an increase of 1.3 minutes nationally.”
Report Internet Link: http://www.comptroller.nyc.gov/bureaus/opm/reports/12-02-07_Airport_Report-grounded_report.pdf
Below is a chart of capacity utilization at Newark Airport from the “Newark International Airport Capacity Enhancement Plan” report dated May 2000. The delay issue at Newark is a function of carriers scheduling operations in excess of instrument flight rule (IFR) capacity and in certain instances in excess of visual flight rule (VFR) capacity. This level of operations is ok until weather conditions deteriorate. At that point, the facility is operating in excess of its available capacity. In the Newark Airport capacity enhancement report, this function is shown in the demand chart illustrated below. At a certain level of operations, the delays go through the roof. We believe that the air carriers routinely push the envelope on this demand curve at Newark Airport (and the rest of the airports in the metropolitan area) until the delays become too costly to maintain.
Source: pp. 6--Newark International Airport Capacity Enhancement Plan.
(Full
report available upon request.)
Source: pp. 8--Newark International Airport Capacity Enhancement Plan.