This is a matter of GREAT URGENCY, as the proposed changes to the DFW Bravo airspace, especially the lowered floor around Addison Airport, will serve to dramatically harm the safety and efficiency of travel into and out of Addison Airport.
There is more information available (or to be made available) at: www.DFWAirspace.com
but here is the first pass; please be certain to understand what is happening, and make appropriate comments before the NPRM Comment Period ends on March 15th.
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The FAA has been engaged in a review of the DFW Class Bravo Airspace, citing concerns over possible interaction between jet traffic inbound to the two air carrier airports in the DFW Bravo (Dallas Love Field – KDAL and DFW International Airport – KDFW) and other air traffic, for quite some time. The FAA circulated its initial proposal for changes in 2008, and at that time, conducted several meetings in the area and solicited informal comments, comments which were presumably intended to assist the FAA in formulating changes to the airspace which would help to alleviate potential conflicts between aircraft without creating new and different safety and traffic flow issues.
The FAA has now issued its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), and it is published in the Federal Register at Volume 78, No. 14, Pager 4356 to 4365. A copy of the NPRM is attached to the website.
In the NPRM, it is apparent that the FAA has wholly failed to recognize the profound impact of key changes to the Bravo at and around the Addison Airport (KADS), especially the lowering of the “floor” of the Bravo airspace around Addison to 2,500′ MSL (Mean Sea Level).
Lowering the base of the Bravo to 2,500′ MSL impacts Addison in several very important ways. Addison already has a constricted Class Delta area – standard a Class Delta requires 2,500′ above ground level (which, for Addison’s nominal 644′ MSL would require that the D-space go to 3,144′ MSL; Addison’s Class D now goes only to the current base of the Class B, 3,000′ MSL, meaning Addison has only 2,356′ of vertical airspace with which to work.
With the proposed change to the airspace, Addison would lose an addition 500′’, leaving one of the busiest single-runway airports in the country, located in very busy airspace, with only 1,856′ of vertical airspace. With minimum altitude over congested areas of 1,000′ AGL, Addison’s airspace would have ONLY 856′ WITH WHICH TO WORK UNDER THE NEW BRAVO SPACE.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
Melissa McCaffrey, Senior Government Analyst, Air Traffic Services for AOPA, has this to say:
Below is a link to regulations.gov where you can click on comments that were already submitted on the NPRM, hopefully that will give you a good idea of what is being said and who is involved locally. The second link is to one of our articles that goes through the User Group Process for the Design of Class B and C Airspace, it is a little lengthy but provides great detail on the FAA airspace rulemaking process, which is typically what confuses folks. please feel free to share this link to others with questions on the process and I would even encourage you to maybe incorporate it onto your website. I will certainly get you a copy of our comments just as soon as I get them finalized and also a quick guide to submitting comments through the docket.
http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketBrowser;rpp=25;po=0;dct=PS;D=FAA-2012-1168
http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/air_traffic/tcagroup.html
Link to AOPA notice: http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2 ... c_sect=adv
If this concerns you, you must submit written comment:
Pilots may submit written comments to:
U.S. Department of Transportation
Docket Operations, M–30,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.
West Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140
Washington, D.C. 20590–0001
Be sure that you identify FAA Docket No. FAA–2012–1168 and Airspace Docket No. 07–AWA–3, at the beginning of your comments.
Information needed to include when submitting via internet:
14 CFR Part 71
[Docket No. FAA–2012–1168; Airspace
Docket No. 07–AWA–3]
RIN 2120–AA66
Proposed Modification of the Dallas/
Fort Worth Class B Airspace Area; TX
First click to link to submit via Internet:
http://www.regulations.gov.
Internet site to tell you how to submit electronically:
http://www.regulations.gov/#!faqs;qid=6-2
There is more information available (or to be made available) at: www.DFWAirspace.com
but here is the first pass; please be certain to understand what is happening, and make appropriate comments before the NPRM Comment Period ends on March 15th.
---
The FAA has been engaged in a review of the DFW Class Bravo Airspace, citing concerns over possible interaction between jet traffic inbound to the two air carrier airports in the DFW Bravo (Dallas Love Field – KDAL and DFW International Airport – KDFW) and other air traffic, for quite some time. The FAA circulated its initial proposal for changes in 2008, and at that time, conducted several meetings in the area and solicited informal comments, comments which were presumably intended to assist the FAA in formulating changes to the airspace which would help to alleviate potential conflicts between aircraft without creating new and different safety and traffic flow issues.
The FAA has now issued its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), and it is published in the Federal Register at Volume 78, No. 14, Pager 4356 to 4365. A copy of the NPRM is attached to the website.
In the NPRM, it is apparent that the FAA has wholly failed to recognize the profound impact of key changes to the Bravo at and around the Addison Airport (KADS), especially the lowering of the “floor” of the Bravo airspace around Addison to 2,500′ MSL (Mean Sea Level).
Lowering the base of the Bravo to 2,500′ MSL impacts Addison in several very important ways. Addison already has a constricted Class Delta area – standard a Class Delta requires 2,500′ above ground level (which, for Addison’s nominal 644′ MSL would require that the D-space go to 3,144′ MSL; Addison’s Class D now goes only to the current base of the Class B, 3,000′ MSL, meaning Addison has only 2,356′ of vertical airspace with which to work.
With the proposed change to the airspace, Addison would lose an addition 500′’, leaving one of the busiest single-runway airports in the country, located in very busy airspace, with only 1,856′ of vertical airspace. With minimum altitude over congested areas of 1,000′ AGL, Addison’s airspace would have ONLY 856′ WITH WHICH TO WORK UNDER THE NEW BRAVO SPACE.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
Melissa McCaffrey, Senior Government Analyst, Air Traffic Services for AOPA, has this to say:
Below is a link to regulations.gov where you can click on comments that were already submitted on the NPRM, hopefully that will give you a good idea of what is being said and who is involved locally. The second link is to one of our articles that goes through the User Group Process for the Design of Class B and C Airspace, it is a little lengthy but provides great detail on the FAA airspace rulemaking process, which is typically what confuses folks. please feel free to share this link to others with questions on the process and I would even encourage you to maybe incorporate it onto your website. I will certainly get you a copy of our comments just as soon as I get them finalized and also a quick guide to submitting comments through the docket.
http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketBrowser;rpp=25;po=0;dct=PS;D=FAA-2012-1168
http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/air_traffic/tcagroup.html
Link to AOPA notice: http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2 ... c_sect=adv
If this concerns you, you must submit written comment:
Pilots may submit written comments to:
U.S. Department of Transportation
Docket Operations, M–30,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.
West Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140
Washington, D.C. 20590–0001
Be sure that you identify FAA Docket No. FAA–2012–1168 and Airspace Docket No. 07–AWA–3, at the beginning of your comments.
Information needed to include when submitting via internet:
14 CFR Part 71
[Docket No. FAA–2012–1168; Airspace
Docket No. 07–AWA–3]
RIN 2120–AA66
Proposed Modification of the Dallas/
Fort Worth Class B Airspace Area; TX
First click to link to submit via Internet:
http://www.regulations.gov.
Internet site to tell you how to submit electronically:
http://www.regulations.gov/#!faqs;qid=6-2
two Easter baskets for KRBD. Enjoyed lunch there recently. Flew there in one of those aluminum airplanes withOUT the hd tv's. omg dallas is right there 
