Question: Is South Etobicoke a "perferred flight path" for Porter?
I am not sure whom to address and take up a cause to remedy and prevent further encroachment by the commercial airlines, both airplanes and helicopter "connector" flights on the lives of the simple folk of Lower Etobicoke, I'm hoping I may have your ear for a moment to ask your advice.
My life on the lakeshore of the last 12 years has not prepared me for the alarming trend of commercial aircraft over flights of Lakeshore Blvd. W., not the infrequent overcast days but increasingly on cleardays.
I've noted in a east wind Porter aircraft start their descent from as far away as Browns line and use the Lakeshore Blvd.W. as the flight path to the Island Airport almost 10 kilometers away, very often below a thousand feet. I'm sure that if Porter used a flight path from the east in a southerly breeze, the airplanes would hit the former incinerator smoke stack at Ashbridges bay.
Thousands of families at the city center are affected by what Porter deems standard or routine operating procedure, today their expanding sphere of operation, 20 aircraft or more, is affecting thousands of additional people in south Etobicoke.
Back at the beginning of May, a large NavCanada jet aircraft, performed, what appeared to be about 30 targeted over flights of the South Lakeshore neighborhoods, which when I inquired, was told "the plane was calibrating or establishing GPS coordinates for instrument navigation".
Is that what the GPS calibrations where about, did NavCanada vacillate way finding for all aircraft approaching Toronto Island Airport? It appears in the ensuing month or so the low level over flights by Porter, commercial helicopters, and even military planes have risen exponentially and all noticeably beyond the so called "Tripartite Agreement" flight approaches zone and into South Etobicoke.
My great fear is surely coming to past, what was once a recreational and emergency use runway, Porter is establishing itself in a significant and overwhelming commercial facility.
Just a few years back it commercialized with a few 27 seat Dash 8's and is now expanding to 20 78 seat Dash 8's. Huge, ponderous airplanes beyond the capacity of this short runway, which even with the over-flight barrier buoys extended into the bay and out into the lake will eventually result in catastrophe.
As these facts become established on the ground, can we now anticipate in addition to these Porter planes, the arrival of the Cogan Air reciprocal flights or whom ever Porter needs to trade landingrights with in far flung airports.
The noise of reversing propellers of over weight airplanes, air pollution and toxic fuel fumes experienced by the people of city center
is most assuredly expanding to include a whole new and greater population, with what would have been a remote and distant thought, theissue of safety a bigger and greater concern.
My question is, has NavCanada provided this as the preferred flight path for every present and future commercial operator, over these neighborhoods?
Richard
My life on the lakeshore of the last 12 years has not prepared me for the alarming trend of commercial aircraft over flights of Lakeshore Blvd. W., not the infrequent overcast days but increasingly on cleardays.
I've noted in a east wind Porter aircraft start their descent from as far away as Browns line and use the Lakeshore Blvd.W. as the flight path to the Island Airport almost 10 kilometers away, very often below a thousand feet. I'm sure that if Porter used a flight path from the east in a southerly breeze, the airplanes would hit the former incinerator smoke stack at Ashbridges bay.
Thousands of families at the city center are affected by what Porter deems standard or routine operating procedure, today their expanding sphere of operation, 20 aircraft or more, is affecting thousands of additional people in south Etobicoke.
Back at the beginning of May, a large NavCanada jet aircraft, performed, what appeared to be about 30 targeted over flights of the South Lakeshore neighborhoods, which when I inquired, was told "the plane was calibrating or establishing GPS coordinates for instrument navigation".
Is that what the GPS calibrations where about, did NavCanada vacillate way finding for all aircraft approaching Toronto Island Airport? It appears in the ensuing month or so the low level over flights by Porter, commercial helicopters, and even military planes have risen exponentially and all noticeably beyond the so called "Tripartite Agreement" flight approaches zone and into South Etobicoke.
My great fear is surely coming to past, what was once a recreational and emergency use runway, Porter is establishing itself in a significant and overwhelming commercial facility.
Just a few years back it commercialized with a few 27 seat Dash 8's and is now expanding to 20 78 seat Dash 8's. Huge, ponderous airplanes beyond the capacity of this short runway, which even with the over-flight barrier buoys extended into the bay and out into the lake will eventually result in catastrophe.
As these facts become established on the ground, can we now anticipate in addition to these Porter planes, the arrival of the Cogan Air reciprocal flights or whom ever Porter needs to trade landingrights with in far flung airports.
The noise of reversing propellers of over weight airplanes, air pollution and toxic fuel fumes experienced by the people of city center
is most assuredly expanding to include a whole new and greater population, with what would have been a remote and distant thought, theissue of safety a bigger and greater concern.
My question is, has NavCanada provided this as the preferred flight path for every present and future commercial operator, over these neighborhoods?
Richard
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