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information. I compiled these facts in response to the Partners in
Progress statements about the Panama City Airport. I sent it to the News Herald for publication but to date it has not been printed. Regards, Stan Rising Their deception has only cost them our trust I couldn’t agree more with Elaine L. Hubbard. “NASA Powered Boom” October 26, 2003. NASA came to Huntsville, AL first, not the airport. Look at the total demographics of that area; it is not at all like ours. Why have the Partners in Progress tried to deceive us AGAIN. Let’s deal with the facts, why would they say “The runways at Panama City/Bay County International Airport do not meet FAA safety standards by lacking the required 1000 ft safety areas on both ends of the runways. One of our safety areas is just 59 feet” When the FAA does not require it for our airport.
Therefore, the requirement for a 1000 ft overrun does not apply to our airport. Additionally, pilots of multi-engine aircraft must calculate a V1 or Decision Speed, the speed at which after accelerating with all engines, experience an engine failure and (1) stop the aircraft in the remaining runway (not overrun) or continue the takeoff and climb to 35 feet over the departure end of the runway. Pilots taking off on runway 32 would probably take the latter choice, clean up the airplane over the bay and come back for a single engine approach and landing, something they practice all the time in the simulator. Both of these runways are quite adequate for the type of aircraft servicing our community. Why didn’t the proponents of the new airport and West
Bay development choose to sell us on a positive approach like the
Strategic Plan or West Bay Area Vision (both available on the Web) instead
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