HANSCOM FIELD ADVISORY COMMISSION PRESENTATION


Plane Sense presented its concerns to the Hanscom Field Advisory Commission (HFAC) on May 18, 2004. Highlights included:
- Stated our mission of the distribution of individual pilot/flight school activity to all available airspace.

- Identified flight schools at Hanscom Field who embraced "fly friendly" and those who did not.

- Discussed attempts to involve AOPA (Brad von Weise, Craig Dotlo, Phil Boyer) but have received no response

- Distributed FAA Raptor data for two dates:
7/6/03 - illustrates the concentration of activity within a narrow corridor of airspace
7/13/03 - illustrates a distribution of activity; this is the day Terry Flieger of the FAA visited Groton to "listen" and heard silence.
- Distributed the following aircraft # logs

Flight School N #/Tail # Time Spotted*
Five Mike Echo/Executive Flyers 335ME 12:50 p.m.
East Coast Aero Club/Plane Nonsense 852ND 13:25 p.m.
Avmon Corp/Executive Flyers 5199J 13:50 p.m.
Executive Flyers 9556O 14:15 p.m.
East Coast Aero Club/Plane Nonsense 2503V 14:40 p.m.
East Coast Aero Club/Plane Nonsense 2503V 15:05 p.m.
Executive Flyers 49221 15:10 p.m.
East Coast Aero Club/Plane Nonsense 116ND 15:20 p.m.
*aircraft circles between 5 and 20 minutes

- Distributed Town of Groton Selectmen's letter to Rep. Meehan discussing disproportionate amount of flight activity in this airspace .

* Included in the audience was Barbara Patzner, Hanscom Field Airport Manager.
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