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Denise wrote on September 04, 2008 06:20 PM: Justice, I'll stick with my original post, your stupid. I was wondering, do you have a t-shirt that you wesr everyday that says Justice on it? Do you fly or shoot a web like spiderman?
If so then why didn't you save the planes from crashing? Just what kind of super hero are you?

strad wrote on September 04, 2008 04:58 PM: I just don't think a warning system is going to work. General aviation emergencies, the kind that result in crashes anyways, are very dynamic and generally occur with little to no warning whatsoever, especially those that occur during takeoff. I highly doubt any "early warning" system is going to give residents more than 30 seconds' warning, if that. That's hardly enough time to roll out of bed.

Justice wrote on September 04, 2008 03:34 PM: Captive, great info there. Sounds like a conspiracy if there ever was one. Hmmmm.

captive wrote on September 04, 2008 03:21 PM: What folks don't realize is that the airport was once a small, unassuming, compatible private airfield adjacent to rural homes to the north and west a bit. BUT by the mid 80s-it's infrastructure and tenant numbers declined to such a pronounded degree, that is was slated for sale to a non aviation use- in large part because of the surrounding residential building boom.

It was Clark County and the Dept of aviation who decided to purchase it for conversion as McCarran's Reliever-with minimal public notice or imput, and an FAR-150 study which cleverly tweeked facts and figures toward acquisition- this all followed with a virtual razing and complete redisign/rebuild into a different catagory & function- then inivted everyone to "Come on down." The community's quality of life/safety was forever changed. One new runway was built specifically for training- & ejects dangerously low, loud, and relentless training traffic over residential rooftops.
Apparently the county failed to notice that 500 feet above homes is, by law private & soverign airspace and that quiet enjoyment of one's property is a constitutionally quarenteed right- especially if the homes were there BEFORE the runway was built- which they were.

Rumor has it that when a DOA breaucrat was asked why there were no public/residential imput regarding new airport "improvements" which MIGHT greatly impact their community, the repy was " because the socio-economic status of the neighbor does not warrent it" Some pilots seem to agree- but the vast majority of pilots would rather work with the community to improve cohabitation/shared airspace than alienate it.

There is too much airport in too little space- the 1987 RELIEVER should have been built elsewhere when there was still abundant land- and the field retained for leaner, more responsible GA use.

Howard Hughes wrote on September 04, 2008 01:47 PM: As a great visionary and former owner of the North Las Vegas Airport, which is not really in NLV - check your maps, people - maybe this airport should be made into some sort of air museum - allowing flights only on specific days like Sunday, daylight hours only - in other words - reduce the overwhelming traffic and therefore the risks of what is considered the worst "small" airport in the nation. Don't we all have an airport in Jean? Amongst the endangered tortoises and tumbleweeds? I know the proposed "Ivanpah" super-airport is on the table for that area - but in the meantime whilst Mr. Walker and the county commission can find another location - I think Jean would be a much better location for training and experimental flying. Or, move everybody living within three miles of the NLV airport to Jean and build monorails for them to get to the Valley of the Dollar for employment and other services. Flying craft will continuously fall out of the sky - but we must do everything we can to prevent more death and property destruction.

Justice wrote on September 04, 2008 12:54 PM: dobbole, you are too funny. That was great.

rmolnar wrote on September 04, 2008 12:53 PM: Stuff happens.

dobbole wrote on September 04, 2008 12:19 PM: LV pet

Where would you have people live to be out of danger?

We have 2 airports commercial
1 Air force base in town and another one just outside of town
High crime
Terrorist targets on the strip, downtown and Lake Mead
Strategic military targets all over the state
Flash floods outside of town
High wildfire danger in outlying areas
Earth quakes
Drought
Rural areas have limited law and medical services
Reckless driving with little enforcement
Violent schools…

And countless others

dobbole wrote on September 04, 2008 12:11 PM: I would like to propose a deal

You don’t crash your airplanes into my house and I won’t crash my house into your airplanes.

Seriously the airport needs to benchmark their safety record against the rest of the country and see where their major problems are.

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