Terry McKinney

Document ID: FAA-2012-0754-0004
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Federal Aviation Administration
Received Date: August 08 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: August 9 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: July 30 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: August 29 2012, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 810c89b4
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Airport Improvement Program: Policy Regarding Access to Airports from Residential Property

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The FAA is to be commended for modifying its earlier stance on residential through-the-fence airparks. I strongly support: 1 - Treating residential through-the-fence airparks as assets, not liabilities, for their adjacent public use airports. Airparks can provide enhanced airport security and a buffer against noise complaints from surrounding residential neighborhoods. 2 - Treating general aviation airports differently (more leniently) than commercial service airports in regard to easements for runway access for airparks, by permitting 20 year easements for runway access, as opposed to simple licenses or other less-defensible agreements, and 3 - Letting local airports set the runway access fees for General Aviation RTTF airpark property owners to match the airport’s tie-down fees, not the much higher airport hangar-rental fees.