Monday, December 10, 2012
FAA considering local body's decision.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- James Sanna
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Monday, December 10, 2012
According to the Southwest Journal, last month's Metropolitan Airports Commission vote isn't the last local residents have heard of the airport noise issue. MAC had voted to withhold its support for an FAA initiative, which would have organized outbound flights passing over Southwest Minneapolis into a small number of corridors passing over the area. Local residents underneath the proposed new flight paths objected, and convinced MAC to support the FAA plan only for flights passing over parts of Eagan and the Minnesota River. The proposal would have meant that some blocks would see a very large increase in overflights. Currently, departing airplanes follow a number of different paths, subjecting more homes to their noise than under the new…
Monday, November 19, 2012
MAC asked to aprove a plan increasing overflights over some neighborhoods.
Monday at 1 p.m., the Metropolitan Airports Commission is scheduled to meet to consider endorsing a new suite of technologies, championed by the FAA, that could send hundreds of airplanes flying over a narrow swath of Southwest Minneapolis. Called RNAV and PBN, the technologies would allow air traffic controllers to concentrate flight paths—currently scattered across much of Southwest Minneapolis—into a select few "highways in the sky." This would result in a small section of blocks seeing a dramatic increase in overflights. Local residents and elected officials have been lobbying MAC not to endorse the new technologies yet, effectively postponing their implementation in Minneapolis for a year. Over the weekend, news emerged that MAC …
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Plan would set up flight "lanes," some of which run over Southwest Minneapolis.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- James Sanna
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Have an opinion about the Metropolitan Airports Commission's new plan to redirect air traffic over Southwest Minneapolis? Then mark out either Thursday or Tuesday evening in your calendars—the MAC is holding two public meetings on its new plan, which could see more planes directed over a smaller slice of the city. The Nov. 8 meeting will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Crosstown Covenant Church at 5540 30th Avenue South in Minneapolis. The Nov. 13 meeting takes place at the Eagan Community Center at 1501 Central Parkway, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. According to the Star-Tribune, the FAA wants to fully implement a new set of navigation technologies at the Minneapolis-St. Paul international airport. The plan pushes airplanes into…
Sunday, November 4, 2012
New technology could put planes over highways, not houses.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- James Sanna
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
For many in Southwest Minneapolis who live under the approaches to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, a new technology being explored by the Metropolitan Airports Commission could be a godsend. For others living along freeways and and in certain areas of the metro, it could be a nightmare. That's according to a new report in the Star-Tribune about a proposed system that uses satelites to guide an expected increase in future flights down a limited number of narrow corridors, including one over the Windom, Armatage, and Kenny neighborhoods. The plan would reduce the number of flights passing over Lake Harriet, the paper reports. Southwest Minneapolis' City Councilmember John Quincy (Ward 11), though, is worried that the new …
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
MSP airport expansion debated at Monday open house.
Lake Harriet-area homeowners and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are on a collision course. Monday night, the Metropolitan Airports Commission held its latest open house to discuss expansion plans aimed at making room for what the commission expects will be an 89,000-passenger increase in traffic by 2025. In 2010, the airport drew around 437,000 passengers. According to the Star-Tribune, though, Southwest Minneapolis residents at the event trashed the commission's proposal. Officials' claim that only 1,131 homes would need new sound-proofing was no comfort to Tom Knickelbine. "Every single person walking around Lake Harriet is going to feel this," said Knickelbine, who lives near the lake, where more noise and sound-proofing…
SMAAC [-- Jim Spensley]
3:15 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The FAA's "initiative" is " (assessing) the relationship between separation standards, emerging technological concepts (PBN, Next Gen) and new procedures for use in developing future airspace separation minima. The branch conducts research, testing and validation of advanced aviation separation and airspace concepts in analytical and modeled environments to determine its technical and operational… more ›