Southern California Airports Continue Against Interference On Limitation Of Night Time Flights
Noise complaints from locals in Burbank, California have begun a act to restrict both commercial and private aircraft charter flights to and from Bob Hope International Airport (BUR) from 10:00 PM to 6:59 AM. The proposed judgment would be executed by an escalating array of fees for those that disregard the judgement. If it passes, the Valley-Wide Noise Relief Act would involve BUR as well as the Van Nuys Airport (VNY),and will passes amplify its reach to accommodate other southern California airports as well. The contended suspention on late night flights at airports in southern California, as believed by NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen, would hurt local businesses and severely slow interstate air exchange; he told four congressmen on February 28, 2011.
Limiting night flights would be responsible for system-wide setbacks and congest airspace, also driving LAX to take in a heavier volume of flights than they are presently accommodating with executive jet charter and commercial flights, as believed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), having denied the airports' efforts for a curfew in the past, most recently in November of 2009. Locals vigorously battling against the FAA and continue to update their proposals in effort to experience eventual success in reducing the noise of low-flying aircraft as they descend over residential neighborhoods on their way in and out of the airport. The locals have not accepted defeat and continue to battle the 1973 judgement, when the U.S. Supreme Court interjected, denying Burbank's proposal.
The amendment would establish the type of 'patchwork quilt' of local conditions that the Airport Noise and Capacity Act (ANCA) of 1990 was composed to avoid, Bolen commented in a petition to congressmen John Mica (R-7-FL), Nick Rahall (D-3-WV), Thomas Petri (R-6-WI) and Jerry Costello (D-12-IL), all important members of the House Subcommittee on Aviation. Congress enacted the ANCA to respond to noise concerns of communities, air carriers, general aviation and airports.
The current proposal by three southern California congressmen to start a night curfew on air traffic at BUR and VNY initiates that both airports be approved to counteract the ANCA. Under the original ANCA bill, only those limitations already in effect, or proposed but not adopted before ANCA's enactment, have been recognized as acceptable. The proposal would be a dangerous step down the direction toward the highly disappointing situation that existed before the passage of the ANCA, Bolen's appeal also mentioned.
"The restrictions sought at BUR already have been determined to be unnecessary by the agency with jurisdiction over Part 161; and the restrictions sought at VNY have not been subject to expert scrutiny at all," Bolen said.
Limiting night flights would be responsible for system-wide setbacks and congest airspace, also driving LAX to take in a heavier volume of flights than they are presently accommodating with executive jet charter and commercial flights, as believed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), having denied the airports' efforts for a curfew in the past, most recently in November of 2009. Locals vigorously battling against the FAA and continue to update their proposals in effort to experience eventual success in reducing the noise of low-flying aircraft as they descend over residential neighborhoods on their way in and out of the airport. The locals have not accepted defeat and continue to battle the 1973 judgement, when the U.S. Supreme Court interjected, denying Burbank's proposal.
The amendment would establish the type of 'patchwork quilt' of local conditions that the Airport Noise and Capacity Act (ANCA) of 1990 was composed to avoid, Bolen commented in a petition to congressmen John Mica (R-7-FL), Nick Rahall (D-3-WV), Thomas Petri (R-6-WI) and Jerry Costello (D-12-IL), all important members of the House Subcommittee on Aviation. Congress enacted the ANCA to respond to noise concerns of communities, air carriers, general aviation and airports.
The current proposal by three southern California congressmen to start a night curfew on air traffic at BUR and VNY initiates that both airports be approved to counteract the ANCA. Under the original ANCA bill, only those limitations already in effect, or proposed but not adopted before ANCA's enactment, have been recognized as acceptable. The proposal would be a dangerous step down the direction toward the highly disappointing situation that existed before the passage of the ANCA, Bolen's appeal also mentioned.
"The restrictions sought at BUR already have been determined to be unnecessary by the agency with jurisdiction over Part 161; and the restrictions sought at VNY have not been subject to expert scrutiny at all," Bolen said.