Air Traffic Hazards in

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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

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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

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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.
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How Profit is Increased at the Expense of
Surrounding Communities

• Manpower Reduction
• Avoiding Capital Expenditure
• Inadequate Number of ATCs
• 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.
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Discriminatory Consequences
Deleterious Effects are Concentrated on Certain
Communities
10 mi
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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
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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