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Natalie McAdams
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Save Santa Monica Airport!
from Natalie McAdams
wrote 2 years 8 weeks ago
Honestly I cannot believe the levels to which people will stoop to justify their actions. I am all for preserving the historic Santa Monica airport but it is no longer what it was. Private jet traffic has grown 1,800% since a ten-million-dollar runway makeover. There were homes around SMO in the 1920s, and the air was not polluted with many hundred times normal levels of black carbon and ultra-fine particles. If you want to bring the airport back to what it was designed to be - a general aviation airport - then we neighbors will probably be okay with it. But we are not okay with the pollution generated by the jets and the practice of holding jets on the runways for up to 30 minutes to receive clearance from LAX. SMO is not a reliever airport for LAX. SMO is not a safeguard in the event of natural disaster. SMO is a haven for the wealthy who don't want to drive an extra 15 minutes to get home. And lives cannot be sacraficed for that indulgence.
Save Santa Monica Airport!
from Natalie McAdams
wrote 2 years 8 weeks ago
In the first place, the LA City Council took this action b/c the jet fumes affect the LA community. SM City Council is taking action to fight the implementation of the 250 header, which would significantly help with the jet fumes, b/c that route affects the SM residents by making it noisier where they live. SMO with jets is a nuisance plain and simple. if you want to save that airport, as pilots, you should urge 1) the adoption of the 250 header and 2) abdicating the jets - esp the Class C and D jets. If SMO was the general aviation airport that most of you are waxing sentimental about then the community woudl not be opposing it. Instead it is a toxic fuel dump. Jet airplanes still use lead fumes. And this toxicity if being dumped into adjacent airports. If SMO wanted to continue to grow then they should have purchased all the surrounding land. They did not and they can't continue to poision their neighbors anymore than any of us as individuals could indulge in a practice that poisoned our neighbors no matter who was there longer. And for the record, check the history. The house were built concurrently with the airport to support the staff of Hughes Aircraft.
Pilot Community Rises Up in Support of SMO
from Natalie McAdams
wrote 2 years 6 weeks ago
SMO has a great deal of history so lets memorialize it in the newly renovated Museum of Flying. The airport itself is no longer recognizable from the general aviation airport it used to be. Now it is a major hub for private jets that pollute the adjacent neighborhoods. Lose the jets or lose the right to fly into SMO.
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