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TDiFH

This Day in FAA History: March 28th

U.S. federal aviation regulation has been captured for nearly a hundred years, with FAA serving aviation interests, nearly always at the expense of the rest of us. Reform is long overdue. Much can be learned by studying FAA’s past history, understanding how history repeats, and identifying opportunities for change. Each day in this series of […]

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TDiFH

This Day in FAA History: March 27th

U.S. federal aviation regulation has been captured for nearly a hundred years, with FAA serving aviation interests, nearly always at the expense of the rest of us. Reform is long overdue. Much can be learned by studying FAA’s past history, understanding how history repeats, and identifying opportunities for change. Each day in this series of […]

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AvImpact-Noise

Comments by aiREFORM submitted to the ‘Noise Policy Review’ NPRM-RFC [Docket FAA-2023-0855]

A few hours ahead of the closing deadline, aiREFORM submitted a 37-page PDF to the Federal eRulemaking Portal, for ‘Docket No.: FAA–2023–0855: Request for Comments on the FAA’s Review of the Civil Aviation Noise Policy’. The pages break down as follows: pages 1-4 Part 1: Summary, & General Concerns pages 2-8 Part 2: aiREFORM comments […]

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AvImpact-Noise

In Letter to CACNR, FAA Regional Administrator Grady Stone Concedes Pattern is Elongated but Falsely Claims Traffic Volume is the Reason

Centennial Airport (KAPA, southeast of Denver) is one of the current top five impacting airports in the U.S. These are general aviation impacts, caused by small single-prop and twin-prop planes staying in the pattern and doing touch-and-goes to the west parallel runway (runways 17R/35L). Back in May 2021, there was a midair collision when a […]

About aiREFORM

Welcome to the ‘Aviation Impact REFORM’ website, version two. The original version of aiREFORM.com was started in September 2012. It would be nice to say things have improved since, but that would be lying. In fact, the imbalance of power, between the aviation community and the non-aviation community has only worsened. The minority increasingly dominates […]

Aviation

As an exercise, ponder for yourself: what is good, and what is bad, about aviation? The table below offers a list, compiled after more than a decade of aiREFORM efforts. Is this the whole list? Are there any other ‘goods’ or ‘bads’ to aviation? Aviation ‘PROs’: Aviation ‘CONs’: Speed: aviation is the fastest way to […]