(Yes, "sound" is a pun.)
Congressman Rick Nolan, MN-8, will be the main speaker at the SMAAC 2016
Spring Forum June 16th, Mr. Nolan’s speech kicks off discussions of locally
controversial FAA plans and policies. The Forum begins at 5 PM, Thursday June
16, Pepito’s Parkway Theater, 48th and Chicago.
The 90-minute meeting will be “continued on-line” for at least two weeks. Mr.
Nolan will speak about the quirks and politics delaying FAA Re-Authorization
and separate bills forwarded which otherwise would have been posed as
amendments, such as privitizing air traffic control, or furnishing NextGen
avionics or upgrades to the airlines.
The Twin Cities are caught in a great pincher movement: the FAA is spending
$trillions to safely increase US flight capacity and the airlines are
fortifying their hubs and concentrating schedules making the airport system
goals nearly impossible to attain. Expensive, risky, stuff for any hub —and MSP
is a small airport site.