FAA Public Comments on BVA - Sample Letter For Sunnyvale Residents
FAA SAMPLE COMMENT LETTER FOR THE BAYSIDE VISUAL APPROACH (BVA)
INSTRUCTIONS:
Note: this is drafted for Sunnyvale residents only, if you are from not from Sunnyvale, please click the following links for the sample letter:
Please feel free to use the sample letter below AS-IS with no changes, or modify the letter as you wish.
· Copy the sample letter text (below) into a new email
· Fill in your name, and any other applicable fields
· Then send your email to the FAA at: 9-awp-sql-cvfp@faa.gov by October 27, 2017
Be advised, your address and phone number are NOT required fields. Per the FAA, comments will be accepted without addresses, as long as the city information is included.
If you have any questions, feel free to write to info@savemysunnysky.org, and we will do our best to address any questions or concerns.
SUNNYVALE RESIDENT LETTER
BEGINNING OF LETTER:
RE: Sunnyvale residents oppose the Bayside Visual Approach (BVA)
Dear FAA Officials,
My name is ________________, and I live in Sunnyvale.
As a resident of Sunnyvale, we are strongly opposed to the Bayside Visual Approach (BVA). This flight path should NOT be permanently established over our city.
San Mateo County is attempting to shift their airplane noise over to Sunnyvale. If the Bayside Visual Approach (BVA) is established as a published FAA flight path, this will create a MAJOR bay area flight corridor over heavily populated Sunnyvale. This should NOT be allowed. Sunnyvale has a population of over 150,000 residents, and should not be disregarded in this matter.
FAA has informed our residents that this newly proposed BVA path “will be flown in visual flight rules (VFR) by ANYONE, including SurfAir.” Making this flight path permanent means that ALL San Carlos airport arriving flights could use this path, not just SurfAir. San Carlos airport currently has a large number of daily arriving flights, and is growing rapidly. Establishing this flight path as a permanently published BVA path would ultimately result in hundreds of daily flights being shifted from the peninsula over to Sunnyvale. This shifting of airplane noise is completely unacceptable.
When we moved to Sunnyvale, we made decisions based on the existing flight paths in the area. Now flight paths that have been in existence for many, many years over the peninsula cities are being shifted over Sunnyvale. This is not fair, and it is not right!
These planes are loud turbo prop planes or other small planes that seriously impact the quality of life in our Sunnyvale neighborhoods. To have a major flight path moved from the peninsula over to Sunnyvale would have serious future ramifications for our city.
We are already subjected to airplane noise from San Jose airport, Moffett, San Francisco, Palo Alto, etc.
Plainly, the impact of FAA publishing this BVA flight path would have a significant impact to our entire Sunnyvale community. San Mateo County is attempting to relieve THEIR peninsula residents of airplane noise, at the expense of Sunnyvale residents.
There should be NO Bayside Visual Approach over Sunnyvale.
No Moving of airplane noise from the peninsula cities to Sunnyvale!
Sincerely,
Name: ___________________
Address: (NOT REQUIRED) __________________________________, Sunnyvale, CA
Phone (NOT REQUIRED): __________________________________
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END OF LETTER