A recent story in the Santa Monica Daily Press compares Santa Monica Airport (SMO) with North Las Vegas Airport (VGT), which receives similar complaints from neighbors. It's a good read and well worth getting about 3/4 of the way down, when the reporter says this: "In 2009, general aviation pilots logged just under 24 million flight hours, which equates to roughly 240 deaths, on average. Compare that to the tens of thousands of fatal accidents that occur on America's highways and byways — 30,797 resulting in 33,808 deaths in 2009 — and general aviation flying seems like traveling in bubble wrap." Read the whole story here. Continue Reading »

===> Posted on September 19th, 2011 by Janice Wood. No comments. © GAN 2011.