This post is a comment moved from the post RECORD KEEPING.
Just goes to show that Mo-Dot and the FAA have no intention of compliance to 5190.6b.
If they educated the sponsors and helped them to comply, airports around
the state would be thriving. It would be like taking a person off of
the street and saying here's an airplane go figure out how to fly it and
just do whatever you want.
Pilots and mechanics on the other
hand are required to take an enormous amount of training and stay
current with that training. The rule book is 3" thick and we are
required to know every rule that pertains to the type of license we
have. Safety is our number one concern. We play by the rules of the FAA
for a reason, to stay alive and fly another day. We self comply to these
rules because we have respect and integrity.
So is it the
sponsors fault that the states airports are in shambles or is it Modot
and the FAA for not doing their job as they do with pilots and
mechanics?
The city of St Clair screams that the airport is
loosing money but is the city collecting rent on the new subdivision
that is using airport road (federal property) for its entrance? Free
rent would be great anywhere. No where to be found in the record
keeping. Is the city paying fair market value for the lift station? How
much is it receiving for the cell phone towers in town? Really? how many
low profile billboards could be erected in the safe zone along 44 at
how much a month? $21,000 a year in hangar rent. Maybe they should open a
bank with all the extra money they would bring in instead of closing
the airport.
The only expenses are lights(with now some
missing), grass cutting, snow plowing and some admin expenses. What is
the real cost of the insurance?
Is it too much to ask that Mo-Dot,
the FAA and the City of St Clair all just do their jobs, then make a
decision to close the airport?
It is obvious the FAA and MoDot are not going to require compliance when the #1 reason for the 5190-b is to not allow closure for development of the property. All airports are now at risk for the same destructive actions that the city of St. Clair employed.
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