I am not sure what you mean?

Steve,

Safety is my only agenda. I don’t fly light aircraft but I have many friends that do. Getting the FAA to pay for the improvements is a plus! Sorry I am losing my patience with SC. He is making this way more of an issue than it needs to be.

Vivienne,

The wells are not any where near the proposed project.

You have twice referred to the mix of aircraft not changing. I didn’t see anyone contend otherwise in the report or other comments here, which makes it look like a red herring.

Displacing the runway threshold will create a safer approach and lengthening the runway by 800 feet help prevent overruns. The FAA is paying for 97% of this expansion and it will benefit the current operators. There have been very few sound complaints at the airport since we raised the traffic pattern altitude and asked pilots to vary their patterns when doing touch and go’s. It will have minimal impact on the airport neighbors. It is a very fair trade-off. Nothing is ever as black and white as SC tries to make things.

~Stew

Stew is a retired pilot indeed. What he forgot to tell you is that he was the previous Chairman of the AAC. For some reason when these guys are indoctrinated, they all come out with the same line: Bigger is better.

If there is one major fault of the AAC is their failure to recognize one simple fact: Every airport has a different purpose. One of the reasons they fail to recognize it, is because they do not allow opposing opinions.

In fact, I still have the Email when they opposedmy inclusion (The only resident with a real dog in the fight and knowledge in aviation matters) in the so called Citizens Advisory Committee. They said I was “biased”. Obviously they forgot to take a good look at the mirror that day.

Anyway lets remember that ARB was a grass strip and the land was purchased for water rights.

Years later we have an airport with control tower …(Don’t get me started on how much we the tax payers are paying to maintain this tower. It will be an eye opener if you realize what every C-150 touch and go costs YOU the tax payer.)

If only some folks would stop pushing this “bigger is better” for their own personal agenda, thousands of folks could live in harmony with ARB as a hobby airport for weekend fliers and aircraft owners.

There is Willow Run for corporate jets and charter outfits and DTW Metro for heavy metal and international flights .

We are very fortunate here at AA that we don’t have to suffer the negative byproducts of a larger airport yet reap all the economic benefits.

What do you think Mike ?

You must be kidding of course. I am a retired commercial pilot. The thing that upsets me is that there are so many real experts that could weigh in on this issue in the area yet we need to listen to the conspiracy theorists, dilettantes and people with true hidden agendas spout of with sound bites ad infinitum.

~Stew

Do you work for AvFuel? They are big sponsors of the rwy extension.

Mike P