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Air Traffic Hazards in Northern New Castle County

Air Traffic Hazards in Northern New Castle County. Excessive Jet engine Noise. Repetitive for significant time periods. Damaging frequencies. Additional Air Pollution from the products of jet fuel combustion. Higher Probability of an Air Disaster/Crash. Air Traffic Impact

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Air Traffic Hazards in Northern New Castle County

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  1. Air Traffic Hazards in Northern New Castle County • Excessive Jet engine Noise. • Repetitive for significant time periods. • Damaging frequencies. • Additional Air Pollution from the products of jet fuel combustion. • Higher Probability of an Air Disaster/Crash

  2. Air Traffic Impact on Northern New Castle County • Noise • Psychological damage, potentially leading to… • Physical damage (Eg; sleep loss) • Air Pollution • Human Morbidity & Mortality • Environmental damage • Air Disaster/Crash • Human Injury or Death • Property Loss • Lower Quality • of Life • Lower Economic • Worth

  3. Reasons for Degraded Conditions • Continuously Increasing # of Operations • Inadequate Pollution and Noise regulations • Air Travel/Freight Industry has no Checks & Balances on Profit Motive. • Elimination of Air Traffic Controllers to reduce costs • Maximizing Operational Use of Fixed Capital to Avoid Delays. • - Ie; avoiding investment in New Technology that could Offer alternative ways to manage Operations. The Public has no representation; no protection under the law; no authority; and inadequate resources to bring the economic consequences of their situation to an authority that could weigh these against the methods and processes that the airline industry has implemented in the pursuit of higher profits.

  4. How Profit is Increased at the Expense of Surrounding Communities • Manpower Reduction • Avoiding Capital Expenditure • Inadequate Number of ATC’s’ • Dual Take-offs • “Stacking” Approach Operations • Avoiding runway reconfiguration • Avoiding Investment in new Operations management technology Aligning on a beacon far out from the runway (up to 10 – 15 miles) At low altitude and slowly descending along a fixed path toward the airport at low speed. Allows planes to land on the same runway at intervals as tightly packed as 60 seconds.

  5. Discriminatory Consequences Deleterious Effects are Concentrated on Certain Communities 10 mi

  6. Remediation Possibilities • Higher Approaches (4000’ at 10 miles out) • Adjust Route of Dual Take-offs (Higher rate of ascent) • More Distributed Approaches • River Approach or other less populated areas 5000’ 10 mi Commodore Barry Bridge Tower height 418’ End of PIA runway 1000’ increments My estimate of height of most incoming fleights DE/PA state line Elevation to scale w/horizontal distance

  7. Protection Measures • Adequate Noise Regulations • Shorter time periods for averaging • Specific noise frequency analysis • Air pollution regulations and monitoring • Risk assessment • Business Accountability • Community Representation

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