Can you recommend an attorney to help us form an Airport HOA in the Knoxville, TN area?Continue readingQuestion: HOA attorney recommendation?
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The AOPA, in a letter dated December 18, has asked the FAA for more flexibility in its “proposed ‘one size fits all’ approach to airparks and other residential through-the-fence (TTF) operations at public-use airports”.Continue readingAOPA Online: Flexibility needed for through-the-fence access
I am looking for experiences and suggestions pertaining to residential airparks where a developer or individual owns the underlying land of the runway(s), taxiways, roads and other common areas.Continue readingAirpark Land Ownership vs. HOA
The FAA’s new Airport Compliance Manual (ACM) adversely affects every federally funded airport by its new mandate telling local airports how to deal with their neighbors.Continue readingNew FAA Policy Adversely Affects All Airports
The FAA has issued a memorandum relating to “Compliance Guidance Letter (CGL) 2009-1-Through-the-Fence and On-Airport Residential Access To Federally Obligated Airports”. Our opposition to the CGL and memorandum are based on a number of points.Continue readingOur opposition to the FAAs Compliance Guidance Letter
Although widely publicized, I do not see our airport listed. Scott County Airport (Oneida, TN) is currently “in informal non-compliance” with FAA land use. All funds have been with held. This is in retaliation for granting TTF access to the Big SouthFork Airpark.Continue readingAdd Scott County to TTF-troubled list
My local GA field has imposed a fee on through the fence operations. I have always understood that ‘through the fence’ applied to operations taking an aircraft through a gate onto or off of the field.Continue readingWhat is ‘through the fence’?
Jerry and Barbara Norcia have posted a short video explaining why they built their home next to Creswell Airport in Oregon. Continue readingYouTube clips explains thru-the-fence impact
Not surprisingly, NATA found a large number of respondents experienced inconsistent application of the FARs from “Regional, Aircraft Certification (ACOs) and Flight Standards District Offices (FSDOs)”.Continue readingNATA finds FAA inconsistencies
One of the major points she makes is that “over the years, FAA has issued grants totaling $1.8 billion to buy land and homes, relocate residents, and mitigate the impacts of aircraft noise with soundproofing.” I don’t doubt for one minute that FAA has spent nearly $2 billion in such efforts over the last 20 years or so.Continue readingOur thoughts on FAA’s TTF position
The City of Driggs signed a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) with the FAA in order to receive $7 million for widening and resurfacing all the runways and taxiways at the Driggs Airport (KIDJ). Prior to the agreement, eight hangar and hangar home owners received an injunction against the City to enjoin them from “affecting the interest in real property.”Continue readingThrough The Fence temporary defeat
Once again, the issue is related to thru-the-fence agreements. In the case of Orcas Island, there is a lengthy history surrounding the airport and how there came to be 26 residential lots adjoining the airport property.Continue readingThru-the-Fence discussion reaches Orcas Island, Washington
If you think the FAA doesn’t reach into non FAA funded airports, think again. The FAA’s little brother, WSDOT is in lockstep.Continue readingNon-funded airports under FAA reach
The use of an “Air Avigation Easement” can make sure the space through which you must fly for a pattern at your residential airpark remains open, free of obstructions and legal.Continue readingSample Air Avigation Easement
In many ways, residential airparks or hangar homes can provide security and economic benefits to the airport and support an overarching goal of helping the airport become self sustaining.Continue readingAOPA calling for ‘greater flexibility’ on TTF issue