Iler replies to Joe on NEF contours
Thanks, Joe. You're right - it is some progress to see helicopters taken into account.
We still don't know if Transport Canaa's upcoming study will also do so.
The only binding study on NEF Contours is the one that Transport Canada's contractor Jacques Savard is now carrying out. Until that report is released and peer-reviewed, we're of the view that the limit set by Transport Canada's last NEF contour study in 1998 of 97 slots for Q400s remains in force.
Porter's already in breach of that.
The noise mitigation measures? They are irrelevant to the NEF contour limits, as you will know.
We know nothing about those plans, save that TPA Chair Mark McQueen stated in a comment on an article in NOW a few weeks ago,that they were to be implemented.
There's been no communication to anybody in the communities affected, to my knowledge. And no effort to call a meeting of the TPA's noise consultation committee either. Strange.
Brian Iler, chair
CommunityAIR
We still don't know if Transport Canaa's upcoming study will also do so.
The only binding study on NEF Contours is the one that Transport Canada's contractor Jacques Savard is now carrying out. Until that report is released and peer-reviewed, we're of the view that the limit set by Transport Canada's last NEF contour study in 1998 of 97 slots for Q400s remains in force.
Porter's already in breach of that.
The noise mitigation measures? They are irrelevant to the NEF contour limits, as you will know.
We know nothing about those plans, save that TPA Chair Mark McQueen stated in a comment on an article in NOW a few weeks ago,that they were to be implemented.
There's been no communication to anybody in the communities affected, to my knowledge. And no effort to call a meeting of the TPA's noise consultation committee either. Strange.
Brian Iler, chair
CommunityAIR
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