[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT - Outlying Landing Field for Virginia region

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Landing field is essential to the 'sound of freedom'

Opinion by ? Baumgartner
Newport News Daily Press (VA)
June 12, 2008


As a retired naval aviator and the father of a current naval aviator, I 
believe I am more qualified to comment on the issue raised by your 
correspondent in her letter "No need for OLF," June 9, than she is.

Her penultimate paragraph demonstrates that she is woefully uninformed 
on this issue.

The precise reason the proposed outlying landing field sites are near 
rural communities is their remote locations. To land a jet on a 
relatively small area of an aircraft carrier, at sea, at night, requires 
training in the most realistic nighttime conditions. Landing at sea at 
night is a critical procedure in almost total darkness at about 140 
miles per hour.

Due to the urban encroachment of Virginia Beach around NAS Oceana and 
the suburban encroachment around Fentress Field, nighttime simulation is 
being compromised because of all the lights from the sprawl of the 
developments in their vicinity.

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For the entire column, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-op_olfneed_0612jun12,0,6037512.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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