[BC] KFI Tower replacement ?

[Mike McCarthy]

Actually, the FAA will not consider that in their air space analysis.  Been 
there...done that.

I recall a few stories where the tower owner spent more to beef up an 
existing tower than it would have cost him to replace the tower for 
that...and zoning reasons.  I recall one story where a tower owner built a 
new tower around his old standing tower to get around the FAA denial of a 
new tower located 15 ft. away.

Because of KFI's proximity to several airports and being fully developed 
around them, I can only imagine the quagmire they're working through with 
the FAA and local zoning.

MM

At 09:26 AM 1/3/2006 -0500, nakayle at gmail.com wrote
>  Well I might understand all this legal red-tape if they wanted to build
>something new- but they are only replacing a structure that has already been
>there for 57 years! (since 1948) and would still be there if it had not been
>hit by a plane flying below legal elevation limits.   If the tower was ok
>there in 2004 it should be ok there in 2005.
>
>
>On 1/3/06, WFIFeng at aol.com <WFIFeng at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 01/03/2006 07:22:52 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > MichaelGolchert at clearchannel.com writes:
> >
> > >   Zoning, Permits, Environmental Studies, FAA Notifications,
> > >  NIMBY's, Public Official Ego's, multiple "claimed" jurisdictions, etc.
> > >  These all take LOTS of time in a very densely populated area such as
> > >  where KFI's transmitter site is located.  CC would be very happy to
> > >  start stacking steel today on a replacement tower....but all the
> > "ducks"
> > >  have yet to come back into a row.  So we wait....without a definitive
> > >  start date at present.
> >
> > It took us *two blooming YEARS* just to get a lousy satellite dish
> > installed!
> > The way it all has to proceed, you would think we were trying to build
> > some
> > kind of Toxic Waste Dump! It's just a simple fiberglass dish (3 meter) on
> > a
> > concrete slab with 6' anchor. Because it's close to wetlands, every "swamp
> > thing"
> > known to Man has to be consulted and give their seal of approval...
> > surveyors, enviro people, Civil Engineers, etc. etc, ad nauseam.
> >
> > It was almost two years to the week, that the thing was finally up and
> > running. Now, I just have to deal with cleaning the slush off the cover
> > every hour
> > or so! Any suggestions for a water/snow repellant spray we can use to keep
> > this
> > crud from sticking like oatmeal?
> >
> > Willie...
> >
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