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VA' Z '1 MEMO TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Clerk -Administrator DATE: September 23, 1982 SUBJECT: AIRPORT OPERATORS MEETING On September 17, 1982 Mr. Tim Anderson of the Metropolitan Airports Commission met with local base operators at the Anoka County -Blaine Airport which staff of the City of Mounds View was invited to attend pursuant to the agreement reached with the City Council at an earlier meeting with representatives of the Metropolitan Airports Commission and fixed base operators. At this meeting both myself and Building Inspector Steve Rose, who is a trained pilot, attended to listen in on the discussions and relate to the airport operators the problems the City has been experiencing with flight operations over the City of Mounds View. The operators discussed the various problems they experience with the use of the airport as it relates to takeoffs and landings from the north/south runway and the present status of the operating procedures for the Anoka County -Blaine Airport. The following solutions were suggested by the airport operators to reduce the amount of takeoffs and landings occurring directly over the City of Mounds View as much as possible. These solutions, however, will not eliminate the flyovers from occurring as operators not using the Anoka County -Blaine Airport as their base will continue to fly in and out of the airport resulting in flyovers over Lhe CiLy, as well as weather conditions which might prohibit the use of other operating procedures. The solutions suggested by the operators are as follows: 1. When taking off to the south from the north/south runway pilots should be instructed to take an immediate left turn at County Road J and follow County Road J to the east along the ramp entering the 35W freeway. 2. Establish a right hand turn procedure for takeoffs to the north on the north/south runway which would result in landing approaches coming from the east over the undeveloped areas of Shoreview and following County Road J rather than approaching to the west and flying over a large portion of the City of Mounds View prior to their final approach over the airport. 3. Obtain funding from the Metropolitan Airports Commission for the installation of VASI lights on the south leg of the north/south runway. These lights are designed to let a pilot know when they are below the 700 foot limit established by the airport, thus, hopefully reducing or eliminatinq the number of flyovers occurring below the 700 foot level and creating the noise problems we have recently been experiencing.