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NEW REPORT BELOW plus statement to the County Commission on July 20. PROGRESS BEING MADE ==> YOUR SIGNATURES HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE... Official petition signature count reaches 227 and was submitted July 20th to the County Commission in session. Commissioner Shelley Vana said that a number of remedies are in progress -- AIR COASTAL HELICOPTERS found responsible for mechanical failure on Ch 12 helicopter that went down last year. They are the same people who have Palm Beach Helicopters... the training school that has copters over your homes at low altitude -- Petition count passes two hundred mark, thank you everybody -- NEW... PART IV Video, see lead story below -- CLICK HERE TO READ HELICOPTER PETITION --JIFFY LUBE report CLICK HERE FOR OIL CHANGE FROM HELL --Citizens Committee on Airport Noise (CCAN) meeting held this morning April 22 CLICK HERE FOR REPORT -- -- BOAT PIX menace over Atlantis and elsewhere... what the Radar shows over the past few months, see story below-- Radar shows near collision at Lantana Airport CLICK HERE TO SEE RADAR TRACE -- CLICK HERE FOR 5 minute VIDEO to learn how to identify Runways and traffic direction at any Airport -- Helicopter training schools projected to expand on Lantana Airport, see story below -- Document kept from the public shows helicopters to stay above airport, see story below -- NEWS - around noon Sat April 3, a plane crashed in Lake Osborne killing the pilot. LWM has exclusive footage on story below -- New videos showing what changes have occurred after reports to the County Dep of Airports will post this weekend. NEW INVESTIGATION - AN EXPOSE on HELICOPTER PILOTS BEHAVING BADLY... never before has the public seen the dark side of helicopter piloting ...see reckless flying, buzzing houses at 22 feet above the roof top, buzzing Villas in Atlantis, engine out maneuvers over inhabited areas in the traffic pattern, the contempt for the public below, and how during the past decade, training schools have ignored the rules designed by the county to give the public relief... and gotten away with it. This is "AN AIRPORT OUT OF CONTROL" videos coming soon including the bad habits of airplane pilots, ignoring the rules, buzzing homes on approaches, adding to the choas...

 
 


 
 
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$200,000
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$591,898
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$123,098
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$450,000
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$59,975
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$82,620
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 $1,621,591
 
 

 
 
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  Helicopters now complying with County
Posted on Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 22:41:25 EST by admin

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July update - Lantana Airport & helicopters

Click here for 20 minute video report

Find out what's been going on since the petition signing began on April 24th and how effective the 227 signatures were at improving the situation with helicopter training schools.

Statement made to the County Commission July 20th

in behalf of the communities surrounding Lantana Airport

July 20th, 2010 Tuesday
Statement made by William Coakley/Lantana Airport Agenda Item 8, matters of the public

I’m William Coakley (5934 Lake Osborne Dr/Lantana) and with me today is Larry Silver who is also a Lake Osborne Estates resident and is Chairman of the board of Directors of that Civic Association.



This is about helicopter training schools at Lantana Airport and their non compliance to measures you put into place to protect the communities from the ravages of helicopter training over their homes and families.

And I want to begin by thanking everyone who helped us get to this point including Commissioner Vana and her staff and Commissioner Marcus and her staff for taking an interest as well.


For the past seven months, an exhaustive full time effort has been made in cooperation with the DOA [Department of Airports] to get helicopter training schools at Lantana Airport to comply to these protective measures you established fifteen years ago.

These protective measures are known as NOISE ABATEMENT PROCEDURES and they represent common sense good neighbor standards which are inherent to any Landlord Tenant agreement. They make it very clear that helicopter training should never be conducted over populated areas and should remain above the airport or at another location.

I have with me a petition of 227 resident signatures from all the communities surrounding the airport …confirming that until the past few weeks …helicopter schools chose not to comply with your NOISE ABATEMENT PROCEDURES… and this non compliance has caused harm to the communities.

This defiance was deliberate, willful, consistent and universal among helicopter operators at the airport including your tenant. 2:00 minutes

Fortunately this problem is being addressed by Commissioner Vana’s office but since all airport matters are voted on by this honorable body, petitioners are asking that you all speak with one voice insisting that compliance is necessary for the protection of the public.

Although we are cautiously optimistic concerning the few weeks of cooperation from the tenant training school …we would hope you keep in mind that it took seven months of combined full-time effort from our communities and the DOA [Department of Airports] to achieve this level of compliance… and petitioners are asking that you do something so that we don’t have to go through another grueling seven months ending up here again just to get another brief period of compliance from your tenant.

Time permitting we like to meet with each of you and look forward to answering any questions you have.

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