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New Organization Fights FAA’s Hangar Home Directive - November 7, 2009
A new organization, ThoughTheFence.org (TTF), used the AOPA Summit to announce its formation on Thursday. The organization has been formed by pilots to fight the FAA’s prohibition of hangar homes at publically funded airports.
“The FAA’s Airport Compliance Manual (ACM), dated September 30, 2009, clearly labels all hangar homes as incompatible adjacent airport land use” stated Brent Blue, one of the organizers of TTF. “The FAA’s reasoning is based on noise” and the noise complaints are based on antidotal information. “They do not have any data” stated Blue who is submitting a Freedom of Information Act request to secure any data, or lack thereof, the FAA has. “This stealth directive was released two months after Babbitt stated at EAA AirVenture that these situations would be evaluated on an individual basis and now they come out with a wholesale directive” Blue emphasized.
