Santa Monica Airport Begins Evictions - FAA Warnings Ignored

You lost me, Mr. Campbell - I "feel" with my hands. They don't "feel" any better now than they did when you made your post about half an hour ago...what am I missing ?

6:00 PM MST Sept. 18

Hi Mr. Schmidt - of course we are in complete agreement - but this ( Santa Monica Airport) may not be a solveable problem. Of course if there were people with a backbone, they'd bring a legal action based on the fact that the Airport Commissioners have so far acted out of the course and scope of their constitutional authority, that only a "Special Master" and/or the FAA should be appointed as "receiver" to prevent further harm to a public facility.

I don't see much of anything happening to protect KSMO. First and foremost...the FAA is no longer a separate agency. It answers to Dept. Of Transportation, which in turn answers to HOMELAND SECURITY. Would a Trump Presidency put a stop to the anti-aviation beaucrats in both local, state, and federal govts ? Hard to say. When I was a kid in California, it was industrialized - if memory serves, in those years, if Calif. were a separate country, it would be about the third or forth most industrialized country on the planet. Lots of good well-paying jobs, resulting in a well-capitalized middle class, which in turn equaled a vibrant aviation community.

The greater Los Angeles area was dotted with airports, most public, some private. Most are now gone. As California de-industrialized (along with the rest of our country) the middle class and its capital have pretty much disappeared along with the airplanes and airports they enjoyed.

Bottom line- not sure there is any hope - too many vested interests want aviation gone.