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FAA STUDY FOCUSING ON ARRIVALS TO RUNWAY 22 |
FAA STUDY FOCUSING ON ARRIVALS THAT AFFECT KINGS COUNTY That's right, there was no study. Let them eat cake.
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Blue lines indicate the "preferred" alternative for LaGuardia arrivals, taken from the FAA report on noise mitigation. Blue lines are LDA (Localizer Directional Aid) and the white lines are the ILS(Instument Landing System). The FAA will try to use the LDA since they mostly go over water and less populated areas; whereas, the LDA lock onto direct routes over populated areas. The FAA is kind enough to do this study for the northern populated areas and attempt to use the LDA as much as possible. For the most part, ILS is driving the planes over Kings county as no study was done for our area.
This is as good as the information provided to us from FAA gets. No numbers - no percentages, no statistics, no times of day. Can you find your place in Brooklyn on the map?
You can see that the picture is focused on Westchester. It
was studied thoroughly. And note how alternatives were studied for Westchester,
moving arrivals over water. FAA actually acknowledged that there are living
people there.
What about Brooklyn, the 4th city in the nation, where
population density is 10 times higher than Westchester? Well, seems
like FAA assumed that there have always been airplanes here, so people wouldn't
care much if they doubled, and tripled the number of arrivals over our heads,
allowed them to fly in low altitudes of 2000 feet, and extended daily operations
until after midnight!
Note that there are 2 arrival alternative: from
the west and from the east. The one from the west actually avoids Brooklyn.
What's even worse, is that since the beginning of August 2008, LaGuardia flights
are rarely routed over the western approach, they always seem to
take the approach that cuts directly over Brooklyn.
Don't you think
there's something wrong with this picture?