2020-07-21
The Burien Airport Committee held a virtual meeting on July 21, 2020, to discuss several airport-related issues affecting the community, including flight patterns, noise monitoring, and re-engagement with the SeaTac Airport Roundtable (StART). Key agenda items included a potential request for a temporary portable noise monitor in Burien, recommending representatives for NextGen/PBN rollout discussions with the GAO, and continuing discussions on inviting Port Commissioners to meet with the committee and City Council. Draft minutes from the June 16, 2020 meeting also reflected earlier discussions about airport impact mitigation, equity concerns, and a proposed letter to the Port Commission addressing a post-COVID 'new normal' for airport operations.
2020-07-04
This document is an invoice from ABCx2, LLC to the County of Arlington, dated July 4, 2020, for $15,212.50 in consulting services, approved for payment by Richard Roisman on July 5, 2020. The attached budget summary from NowGEN shows the work was part of a larger $250,000 project, with three billing periods from April through June 2020 totaling $36,325.00 across four components. The remaining project budget stood at $213,675.00 as of June 30, 2020.
2020-06-12
This document package from ABCx2, LLC includes a consulting invoice for $7,750 billed to the County of Arlington (Invoice #1158, dated June 12, 2020, approved for payment July 5, 2020), along with a supplemental budget summary prepared by NowGEN as of May 31, 2020. The budget summary shows project expenditures across four components totaling $21,112.50 out of a $250,000 project budget, with the $7,750 supplement added to the June invoice. The materials appear to relate to NextGen aviation consulting services, which typically involve airspace modernization and flight procedure work relevant to airport noise policy planning.
With the emergence of Coronavirus, we’ve noticed a great deal of Schadenfreude among airport activists across the world. Comments such as “It’s so quiet now. We should have an outbreak like this all the time!” The thing most residents forget is that we actually did twenty years ago. It was called ‘9/11’. If you look
2019-08-27
A 2019 U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General report found that the FAA's Metroplex program—designed to modernize flight routes using satellite-based navigation in busy metropolitan areas—fell significantly short of its promised benefits, delivering only $31.1 million in annual savings compared to the $61.6 million minimum originally projected. The program also faced delays of up to four years, driven largely by community concerns about aircraft noise, which is directly relevant to ongoing noise issues around airports like Sea-Tac. Key obstacles such as unclear pilot-controller terminology and a slow procedure amendment process remained unresolved at the time of the report.
Spoiler alert: The answer is not ‘The Third Runway’. However, you might call the current situation for residents in certain neighborhoods around Sea-Tac Airport a ‘Perfect Storm’. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? Yes, there has been a great deal of growth in the number of daily operations. First, there is the fact that in 2012 Delta
FAA and BUR LIED | www.uproarla.org UproarLA has discovered the truth of how San Fernando Valley communities were sacrificed by the FAA and Burbank Airport in the name of efficiency and NextGen technology. Burbank Airport was alerted back in 2015 that new “condensed” flight paths would inundate quiet neighborhoods with airplane noise and pollution, and
2018-10-25
Sea-Tac Airport traffic is growing rapidly and set to expand further as the region’s economy booms. But in cities from Shoreline to Des Moines, airplane noise is raising increased concern among residents. Promised relief from a project called “Greener Skies over Seattle” never materialized. By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter After more than two
2018-10-25
Sea-Tac Airport traffic is growing rapidly and set to expand further as the region’s economy booms. But in cities from Shoreline to Des Moines, airplane noise is raising increased concern among residents. Promised relief from a project called “Greener Skies over Seattle” never materialized. By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter After more than two
The 1,200-page measure sets standards for the agency, airports and airlines.
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