> Here are the minutes of the meeting held on 5-4-97.  If there are any
> corrections, please respond.  Otherwise, I will distribute these on 6-1
> 
> Joel
> 
> Minutes of the Member's Meeting of
> 
> 
> LITTLE RIVER AIRPORT PILOTS' ASSOCIATION
> a California nonprofit public benefit corporation
> 
> 
> 
> A regular meeting of the Directors and Members was held on May 4, 1997,
> at two o'clock P.M. at Coast Flyers meeting room, for the purpose of
> transacting all proper business of the corporation.
> 
> The meeting was called by the President at the last meeting. Written
> notice of this meeting was sent to interested parties. Notice was
> publicly posted.
> 
> There were present, the following persons:
> 
> 	Dave Brewer		
> 	Joel Bornstein		
> 	Andy Becker		
> 	John Merriman		
> 
> Tim Scully was abroad on business, so Dave Brewer presided over the
> meeting.
> 
> Because of the small number of voting members available, we did not have
> a quorum.
> 
> The minutes of the last meeting were distributed, but not acted upon.
> 
> We discussed the correspondence of the past month.  There are letters
> from Supervisor Peterson, Supervisor Delbar, Dr Wayne Jonas and
> Mendocino County Pomona Grange, No.  10.  
> 
> Supervisor Peterson wrote to make clear that the GPS approach has no
> connection with any plans to expand Little River Airport.  He is willing
> to consider any reasonable plan to help make the airport
> self-supporting.  
> 
> Supervisor Delbar wrote in response to Dave's letter, stating that he is
> in favor of three pilots on The Little River Airport Advisory
> Committee.  
> 
> Dr Jonas' letter is oriented to emergency availability of the Little
> River Airport and it's importance should disaster relief become
> necessary.  He supports the GPS approach and 24 hour availability.
> 
> The Grange wrote in support of the GPS approach.
> 
> Dave spoke of a new source of aerial photos for our noise abatement
> brochure:
> The U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Earth Science Information Center, has
> photos available.  We'll need 4 of their 9X9 photos @ $6.00 each.  They
> have available photos taken from 20,000', 10,000' and stereo views, in
> visible and infrared format.  Another potential source, Pacific Aerial
> Survey, was rejected due to their prices being much higher.

I vote in favor of ordering a set of photos so we can experiment with adding
them as a background to the map... How about the ones from 10,000 feet?

> 
> We discussed noise abatement.  We decided that the tentative map of the
> area included more yellow-marked sensitive areas than necessary. 
> Probably, all we need to mark separately are the areas at the end of Rwy
> 29, Albion Ridge, and maybe the Frog Pond Road area.  The other areas
> are already protected by the request that traffic remain above 2,000'
> MSL in the entire area, except for the purposes of takeoff and landing. 
> We decided that it would be better to call the noise sensitive areas,
> "Areas of reported noise problems."

We have people from Albion Village, Albion Ridge, Middle Ridge,
at the end of 29 and from Mendocino all complaining. I'm willing 
to amend the map, but I urge caution in trimming it back too far. 

Can we discuss this on email and reach a tentative agreement so I can
circulate a revised map?

Is there a preference between the two forms of the map (with or without the
raster background with topo lines etc.)?

Are there other requested changes to the map (size, area covered, etc.)?

> 
> We discussed the problems with straight ins.  Andy explained that
> aircraft with no radios or wrong frequencies are not known and are very
> hard to see on straight ins.  If they make a turn as they enter the
> pattern, they become much more visible.  We've had several near
> collisions involving  straight ins.
> 
> We talked about the possibility that the landing pattern causes more
> aircraft to fly over the areas of reported noise problems.  Dave said he
> would like to see more standardization of landing pattern entries. 
> There are too many ways to interpret some of the commonly used entries. 
> The overhead/outbound 45 is just one of those mentioned.
> 
> The next meeting of the Little River Airport Pilots Association will be
> held on May 4th at 2:00 pm at Coast Flyers.
> 
> There being no further business to come before the meeting, we adjourned
> at 3:30 o'clock pm.,  on motion duly made and carried.
> 
> 
> 
> Joel Bornstein, Secretary
>