Meeting on air-tour regs fails to break deadlock
Those among the 100 or so who came to a September 29 informational meeting in Flagstaff, Ariz., on Grand Canyon overflight issues, hosted by the National P
Those among the 100 or so who came to a September 29 informational meeting in Flagstaff, Ariz., on Grand Canyon overflight issues, hosted by the National Park Service (NPS) and the FAA, expecting to hear of a breakthrough in a 17-year deadlock over aircraft noise left disappointed.
The only news of progress was the announcement that the NPS and the FAA, jointly tasked by the 1987 National Parks Overflights Act with “substantially restoring natural quiet” to Grand Canyon National Park, had agreed to talk to each other. Joe Alston, the park’s superintendent, opened the meeting by saying that the often contentious dialogue between the agencies “has been one of the more difficult processes I’ve been involved with.”
