Data/Articles
Centennial Airport Training Operations Data
This data captures all operations that are defined as “training” operations, and is not specific to touch & go operations OR operations that affected Greenwood Village. To better understand what this data represents, below is an image of the total number of aircraft operations defined as “training” operations for a 24-hour period on a very busy training traffic day, Saturday, July 30th 2022. The red dot near the center of the image is Centennial Airport.
Understanding how many flights are actually going over our homes per year/month/day. This is what Quiet Skies Over Arapahoe County have uncovered:
Based on the airports ANOMS data of 3,465 training flights in October 2022
The airport counts 1 training flight as take off from the airport, and then landing for good. Not a touch and go.
The community is simply trying to figure out how many circles or laps the flight schools fly a month. We have an idea based off of anecdotal data capturing but, we wanted to be sure.
Let’s say on average each of these training schools flys 4 touch and go’s. I saw one today and monitored that he did 6 laps, FYI. But for argument sake, lets say just 4 laps.
3465 x 4 = 13,860 “circles” or laps - this is all that is important to us.
13,860 circles, laps /30 days = 462 “circles”/day in October of 2022.
What if the average is 5 “circles” or laps each?- 17,325/month/ 30 days= 578 “circles” or laps per day.
Most days we see these flights doing more than 5 laps per training.
Airport Funding
The Centennial Airport receives quite a bit of funding from the government. The airport received $0.5 million for a noise compatibility study but don't have records that the study took place.
Centennial Airport Expansion & Master Plan
January 2021 Masterplan https://centennialairport.com/master-plan
September 2022 Article about explansion https://airportimprovement.com/article/felts-field-centennial-airport-share-their-master-planning-strategies
Aviation Noise
[The following article was originally published in Airport Noise Report newsletter on pages 61-62 in Volume 34, Number 16, May 6, 2022.] A critical step needed to measure FAA’s progress in engaging with communities on NextGen implementation is to begin using a scorecard to assess how well the agency is focusing on issues important to communities, Darlene Yaplee, a founding member of the Aviation-Impacted Communities Alliance, told participants at the UC Davis Aviation Noise and Emissions Symposium. Click here to read entire article
Quiet Coalilition article on FAA Noise and the effects to public health: https://acoustics.org/the-faa-allows-americans-to-be-exposed-to-unsafe-levels-of-aircraft-noise/
The FAA allows Americans to be exposed to unsafe levels of aircraft noise: https://acoustics.org/the-faa-allows-americans-to-be-exposed-to-unsafe-levels-of-aircraft-noise/?fbclid=IwAR1ZrRrrl4JJwd3_t4f9Y-TT_OiQ1z2T21UWyMM18HiO9mtXLyhK231p5OM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
FAA Articles
Touch and go's and take-offs and landings. In this article, it states that this is a gray area: https://www.aviationsafetymagazine.com/features/touch-and-goes/
The FAA discusses landings, take offs and go arounds (not touch and gos). See page 34: https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/acs/media/private_airplane_acs_change_1.pdf
Centennial: A Busy GA Airport Where Even A Mid-Air Collision Cannot Stir FAA to Mitigate Impacts
http://aireform.com/centennial-a-busy-ga-airport-where-even-a-midair-collision-cannot-stir-faa-to-mitigate-impacts/?fbclid=IwAR2YpZ0W5ydcfG4E2Fj4KnY9PiEYrd7ncnrUsHqBKyHkKS-CC4fajaKnD8Y
Miscellaneous
Ordinance Amending Title 17
A county commissioner in Utah made an amendment to touch and go activity in Grand County, Utah
