The Federal Aviation Administration is in the process of changing the way planes fly throughout Southern California.
It is a massive effort to increase the efficiency of our airspace by utilizing paths based off of satellite navigation.
To do this, the FAA is moving around and creating new flight paths and procedures. Currently every plane from the north and the west that wants to land at LAX has to fly over Culver City.
That still will happen but they will now be concentrated in a different area.
The Federal Aviation Administration has released a document called a Draft Environmental Assessment and are inviting the public to comment on it.
Unfortunately, it is rather technical, it is large, the figures created are overgeneralized and important information is missing.
People want to know where the new flight planes are going to fly. The Environmental Assessment won’t tell you that, but I have created an interactive map of the new LAX arrival flight path as it goes over Culver City.
Planes will fly within one mile on either side of this path but most will be concentrated in the first one-third of a mile. The Culver City overflights have moved from Carlson Park and Blair Hills to Downtown, Lucerne-Higuera, the Hayden Tract and McManus.
After people find out where the planes are going to fly, I think they want to know how the noise will change.
Unfortunately this data hasn’t been supplied in a manner in which you can look up an address and assess the potential impact.
I have tried to help by creating this map which shows the difference between the way it is now and the way it will look if the proposed changes go into effect.
It will be noisier under the new flight path and possibly quieter the farther south one gets from it.
I have sent off two comment letters to the FAA hoping to move them to supply the missing information.
I share them with you. Feel free to review the information I supplied here with that on the FAA’s website: http://www.metroplexenvironmental.com/socal_metroplex/socal_docs.html
The FAA encourages interested parties to review the Environmental Assessment, and provide written comments during the public comment period. Written comments will be accepted by the FAA until Friday, July 10.
The public is invited to comment by mail or email. Please be aware that your name, address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment may be made publicly available at any time.
You may include in your comment a request to withhold your personal identifying information, however we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Comments may be emailed to
Mr. Murray may be contacted at stephen@sunstruction.com
Kudos to Stephen Murray for bringing this to our attention and for making these interactive maps available. If you click on the maps, you can make them bigger in helping you find you area. It looks like these new flight paths will not be bringing the amount of noise reduction to our local neighborhoods that we wanted. At El Marino Park, it is estimated the reduction will be .1 db. That’s less than the sound made by straightening your arm out at a 45% angle from your body and rubbing your thumb across the pads of your fingers.