Aviation Conspiracy: FAA Whistleblowers Expose New Corruption!!!

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#479........................................................................May
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Quote of the Week:  "The FAA has been pounding it into the inspectors for
the past several years that the customers are the airlines, not the flying
public," comment from FAA inspector, Gabe Bruno, who was removed as the
FAA's top man in Orlando after he questioned the priorities of higher ups

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FAA Whistleblowers Expose New Corruption!!!

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As Bill Sees It (Editorial): March 2008 Video Of Southwest Inspection
Scandal That Exposed FAA Corruption!!! The exposure of corruption in the FAA
management continues today but it all began with Southwest Airlines
inspection story in March of this year.

FAA Whistleblower Claims Plane Mechanics Not Properly Certified!!!  FAA
management is STILL punishing lower echelon inspectors for doing their jobs
correctly!!!  The latest FAA corruption is a story from Florida about a
recently retired FAA official who blew the whistle to congress on FAA
management's intimidating inspector's to go easy on the FAA's "customers,"
the airlines!!! Now Gabe Bruno is saying that plane mechanics got FAA
approval simply by paying for the certification. Why not? It certainly "fast
tracks" the process, which is something the FAA has always been doing when
they want to expand an airport.

Anti-Heathrow Expansion Candidate Wins Mayoral Election In London!!! This
seems to put another nail in the "third runway" expansion plan for Heathrow
Airport. However while the new mayor opposes Heathrow expansion he does what
almost all other politicians do when their constituents demand action on
aviation noise, they say they will move over somebody else. In the case of
Boris Johnson wants to build another major airport "east of the Thames
(River)" While I think it's nice that politicians are finally seeing the
insanity (with the help of outraged voters) of having major airports located
in the hearts of major cities, I don't like their solution of spreading the
noise and the global-warming air pollution to quiet rural areas in need of
jobs. Personally I would rather have a nuclear depository located near me
than an airport. New York Environmental Group Appeals To Sen. "Chuck"
Schumer On Airspace Redesign Scheme!!! Good luck getting this aviation
expansionist rat to care about people on the ground. The only thing "Chuck"
cares about is expanding airports, protecting favored communities and of
course his false environmentalist public relations image. Corrupt News Media
Help While Schumer is helping dump more aviation pollution on New Yorkers he
is busy getting local New York news media to promote him as being concerned
with helicopter noise in the Hamptons, Long Island. This only goes to show
that the media is corrupt as the rotten politicians they help promote.
Schumer, along with congressmen John Hall and Maurice Hinchey refused pleas
to get an environmental assessment on the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey's plan to build a 4th major New York City airport (Stewart Airport)
in upstate in the upstate town of Windsor. Yet the local news media
constantly promote Hall and Hinchey as environmentalist politicians who get
"green" awards from obscure environmental groups !!!

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New York Environmental Group Wants Sen. Schumer To Oppose Airspace
Redesign!!! As I believe you are aware, "Quiet Rockland" is an organization
based in Pearl River, New York. Our organization acts consonant with the
interests of thousands of citizens in Rockland County and elsewhere. All of
us continue to be threatened - directly and adversely affected by the FAA's
"NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign" ( "Airspace Redesign", or
"Redesign" ). We are
New Yorkers, voters, and your constituents. We are also therefore directly
affected by your actions as an elected official and United States Senator.
Our dependency on your stewardship is augmented by an anomalous condition
which finds your NY-Senatorial counterpart running for an even-higher office
this year. We are again asking you for your personal attention and help, and
your response is vitally important.We are concerned that to our knowledge
you have yet to publicly and forcefully oppose the FAA's planned Airspace
Redesign. You have recently taken to the media to denounce the failed Bobby
Sturgell administration of the FAA, which we clearly appreciate - a position
with which we clearly agree. As I think you know, Quiet Rockland has taken
the same position. To that extent, you and we are on a common pursuit.
However, we understand that you have also recently taken to the media to
support further aviation industry expansion and airport expansion.
Specifically, you have articulated your opposition to flight caps at Kennedy
and Newark Airports. See, e.g.and read full letter below:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/transportation/ny-lifaa145649777apr14,0,6581335.story
http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Summer_air_pain_to_hit_new_heights/12238.html


FAA Top Man In Florida Removed After Raising Safety Concerns!!! ORLANDO,
Fla. -- The Federal Aviation Administration's former top man in Central
Florida claims when he raised safety concerns about unqualified mechanics,
the government turned on him and retaliated. Gabe Bruno was removed as the
FAA's top man in Orlando after he questioned the priorities of higher ups,
Local 6's Tony Pipitone reported. Bruno said he insisted the FAA track down
and thoroughly retest about 2,000 mechanics licensed through an outlaw
school at Sanford-Orlando International Airport. The school gave passing
grades to anybody willing to pay for them, Pipitone reported. "So, what you
have is a real potential for having unqualified people working on these air
carrier aircraft," Burno said. The issues he warned about included
improperly trained mechanics, FAA coziness with big airlines and a lack of
effective maintenance oversight, Pipitone reported. Pipitone said Bruno's
examples included the grounding of Southwest and American Airline jets in
recent weeks, crashes of a Chalk's Ocean Airways seaplane in Miami in
December 2005 and an Air Midwest jet in Charlotte in January 2003. In all,
there were 41 dead, blamed in part of the FAA's failure to oversee or pursue
lapses in maintenance programs, Pipitone reported. "The FAA has been
pounding it into the inspectors for the past several years that the
customers are the airlines, not the flying public," Burno said.
http://www.local6.com/news/16144687/detail.html

London's New Major Wants "Alternative" Airport Built Instead Of Heathrow
Expanded!!! Boris Johnson's (pictured on the left) victory in the London
mayoral election fight could resurrect calls for a new airport in Kent and
pitch him into conflict with council chiefs in the county. Johnson ousted
Ken Livingstone to become the new mayor, giving the Conservatives further
cause for celebrations after a day in which they triumphed in the local
council elections. The potential source of conflict in Kent lies in Johnson's
belief that Heathrow airport's expansion plans should be abandoned and
alternative plans for a new airport at the Thames estuary be reconsidered.
Earlier this year, Johnson said: "What we don't want to do is entrench a
planning error of the 1960s by further expansion at Heathrow. We should look
at whether there's a solution to the east in the Thames Estuary." Four
options for airports either onshore along the coast or on floating islands
were rejected by the Government in 2005. However, Johnson believes the UK
could learn from other countries who have relocated major airports.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_idA085



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Important Aviation News
Stories This Week

Quiet Rockland Asks Senator Schumer To OPPOSE The FAA's "NY/NJ/PHL Airspace
Redesign"
As I believe you are aware, "Quiet Rockland" is an organization based in
Pearl River, New York. Our organization acts consonant with the interests of
thousands of citizens in Rockland County and elsewhere. All of us continue
to be threatened - directly and adversely affected by the FAA's "NY/NJ/PHL
Airspace Redesign" ("Airspace Redesign", or "Redesign"). We are
New Yorkers,
voters, and your constituents.

(Media-Newswire.com) - Below is a Letter from Quiet Rockland:

Dear Honorable Senator Schumer:

As I believe you are aware, "Quiet Rockland" is an organization based in
Pearl River, New York. Our organization acts consonant with the interests of
thousands of citizens in Rockland County and elsewhere. All of us continue
to be threatened - directly and adversely affected by the FAA's "NY/NJ/PHL
Airspace Redesign" ( "Airspace Redesign", or "Redesign" ). We are
New
Yorkers, voters, and your constituents. We are also therefore directly
affected by your actions as an elected official and United States Senator.
Our dependency on your stewardship is augmented by an anomalous condition
which finds your NY-Senatorial counterpart running for an even-higher office
this year. We are again asking you for your personal attention and help, and
your response is vitally important.

We are concerned that to our knowledge you have yet to publicly and
forcefully oppose the FAA's planned Airspace Redesign. You have recently
taken to the media to denounce the failed Bobby Sturgell administration of
the FAA, which we clearly appreciate - a position with which we clearly
agree. As I think you know, Quiet Rockland has taken the same position. To
that extent, you and we are on a common pursuit. However, we understand that
you have also recently taken to the media to support further aviation
industry expansion and airport expansion. Specifically, you have articulated
your opposition to flight caps at Kennedy and Newark Airports. See, e.g.:

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/transportation/ny-lifaa145649777apr14,0,6581335.story

http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Summer_air_pain_to_hit_new_heights/12238.html

Please be aware that we, affected citizens and your constituents, summarily
reject the aviation expansion which you might consider further championing.
Aero-mercantile expansion is wrong for New York and wrong for New Yorkers.
We want the straining of the system to stop, now. We want no further
over-scheduling of flights. We want no further over-saturation of skies. We
want no more runway incursions and near-misses. We want no more air traffic
controller fatigue, demoralization and understaffing at the hand of the FAA.
The solution to current travel difficulties is to stop placing even more
planes on the runways and at the airports which cannot hold them in the
first instance, Senator Schumer. The solution is to cap the number of
flights-per-hour at a number consonant with the physical limitations of the
airports. This will surely have the incidental benefit of improving each
airport's on-time flight percentage if they want to continue to measure
success that way. More importantly, it will keep us safe and unharmed.

Through the Redesign, FAA seeks to introduce new low-altitude flight
patterns over densely-populated residential communities throughout the New
York metropolitan area. This change has already been partially effected in
regions south of us, an implementation which the FAA already made sure to
ram through before the GAO audit report on the Redesign issued. FAA next
seeks to effect this same change for jumbo-jet arrivals into Newark Liberty
International Airport. Though couched in what we believe is an illusory
time-savings-per-flight rationale, the Redesign is simply another quest to
add incremental capacity to area airports and pump more money out of the
sky. Yet this FAA quest decidedly puts area residents, your New York
constituents, in harm's way, in the path of low-flying and sometimes
defective and under-inspected aircraft.

Sometimes they even arrive out of gas. See, e.g.,

http://menendez.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id)6304,

and

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/04/continentals-75.html.

"In some cases flights approached Newark so close to empty that they
received priority landing clearance, effectively allowing them to jump the
line to avoid running [totally] out of fuel". Avianca Flight 52 crashed
while landing at JFK Airport after running out of fuel, in 1990.

In a hearing regarding the FAA before the Senate Appropriations Committee on
Thursday, April 17, 2008, thankfully webcast for all of us to see and posted
at http://appropriations.senate.gov/, our new-found hero to the south
Senator Lautenberg ( D-NJ ) asked Inspector General Scovel about the I.G.'s
investigation of "low-fuel landings" at Newark Airport. Mr. Scovel referred
to a "disturbing situation". While Year 2005 saw 44 "minimum and emergency
fuel declarations" for Newark arrivals, Year 2007 found 151 minimum and
emergency fuel declarations.

In other words, the already-unacceptable number tripled and almost
quadrupled.

In other words, as of Year 2007, a Newark arrival runs low on fuel on the
average of almost once every two days.

Would you want even one of those fuel-depleted sputtering planes over your
house? God forbid if one of those planes crash-lands to change Chestnut
Ridge forever, it will be a result of aero-mercantile excess and airport
over-expansionism - the bad collective decision to run the airspace,
airports, airlines, and resources beyond their limitations, beyond what they
can handle. A low gas tank and an over-stacked runway are really the same
problem. Why doesn't our society and government simply suck it up, and act
and live within its means? Please take a stand to stop the straining of the
system. The people who bought houses in Chestnut Ridge did not bargain to
live on an airport runway. Yet they are the very constituents you are bound
to protect, and they and we look to you to do so.

The real experts can further weigh in. The new proposed Redesign flight
paths will strain the subject airports beyond their physical limitations, as
virtually all of the air traffic controllers with personal knowledge of
those airports will attest if you ask them. We can bring those ATCs to you,
if you have not already spoken with them. They can attest to the
multiplicative dangerous possible outcomes of an over-taxed airport combined
with low-fuel jumbo jet arrivals.

Additionally, the Redesign eliminates long-established noise-abatement
procedures, and threatens to harm our environment and thereby ruin our
quality of life. Those facts are already amply briefed in multiple federal
court litigation files and otherwise.

The real reason for which the new flight paths are being implemented and
considered, and the real reason for aero-expansionism generally, is the
resultant economic benefit to the airline industry, its executives, and its
and their compensation and bonus structures. See, e.g.:

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2008/04/07/daily70.htm

Keeping more planes in the air per unit time, makes these aero-mercantalists
more money, period. We want your assurance that you are not even sympathetic
to their crassly- and unabashedly-commercial enterprise. With all due
respect, Senator Schumer, voters and citizens should have rightful and
serious concerns about why any public official would support harmful
air-oversaturations and flight-overschedulings. Why would any elected
official pursue aero-mercantile expansion at the expense of the health and
safety of the very constituents who put the official in office, and who gave
that official their trust to foster their well-being while in Washington?
Our government and our representatives should never put money before people.
We ask that you please carefully reconsider, and clarify to us, your own
position. We want your unequivocal assurance that you put people over money.

Senator Schumer, we want you to protect us, your constituents and fellow
citizens, on the ground. We do not want you to at all be perceived by anyone
as fostering the paychecks and bonuses of aero-mercantile executives, at our
expense. We want you to reject airport over-expansionism, and take a firm
and unequivocal stand against the NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. That is what
your constituents want, and I can bring you thousands of them too, if that's
what you want to validate the point.

Specifically, we believe that the permanent institution of flight caps at
NY-area airports is an appropriate and correct method to protect our safety,
our health, and the environment. We ask that you please provide us all the
information and data which you may be utilizing as your basis to oppose the
Newark Airport flight caps, so that we may further respond to it. We believe
that flight caps would reduce and perhaps totally eliminate any FAA-claimed
need to implement onerous new Redesigned low-altitude flight patterns which
would otherwise put us at physical risk, generate unacceptable noise, and
adversely environmentally impact our residential communities. We want the
Redesign to wash away with the imposition of the Newark Flight Caps, and we
want you to support the Newark Flight Caps and airport flight caps
generally. We await your reply.

Respectfully submitted,


John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland
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