[BC] KFI Tower replacement ?

[Barry Mishkind]

At 08:13 AM 1/3/06, Mike McCarthy wrote
>Actually,

         ouch .. there is that actually word again....

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

         The FAA has indeed tightened their standards over the years.
         Sometime in the 80s, their computer analysis around airports
         started protecting all aircraft except those flying backwards
         at 50 mph in a snowstorm.

>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.

         ... and the FCC is *so* helpful to stations in
         solving these issues.

>  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.

         ...but the bureaucrats got their pensions.