[CPEO-MEF] NOISE: Low Altitude Tactical Navigation Area (CO, NM)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The hills are alive with the sound of freedom

Opinion by Ed Quillen
Denver Post (CO)
November 13, 2011

Just in case I needed official confirmation that I dwell in Flyover  
Country, the U.S. Air Force has provided it in the form of the Low  
Altitude Tactical Navigation Area.

It covers 60,699 square miles in New Mexico and Colorado, and it's  
for training flight crews based at Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis,  
N.M. They'll be making five-hour nighttime practice runs at less than  
1,000 feet above ground, sometimes as low as 300 feet. They'll be  
flying the C-130 Hercules, a big transport turbo-prop, and the CV-22  
Osprey, a sort of helicopter-airplane hybrid that does not have an  
exemplary safety record.

Airplanes make noise, but the Air Force says courses will be  
staggered so that residents of the training zone - basically the  
southwestern quadrant of Colorado and a big chunk of New Mexico -  
will be awakened only two or three times a year.



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For the entire column, see
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_19316420

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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