Yes. We are planning to meet with the Van Nuys Tower to see if we can get a letter from them in support of our FRIA application. We are 3 miles almost directly in line with the runway. One of our proposals will be to install a warning light or siren at the model field that the Tower can activate if they get complaints/reports from pilots. Unfortunately, the field we fly out of is a public park open to anyone. The only time our club has control of the field is when we pull a permit from LA Recs and Parks and hold an AMA sanctioned event. Otherwise, we do not have any enforcement power for people following posted rules. Being a public park, we also have the added challenge of other interests who would like to see the space the airfield occupies, used for other purposes ranging from intra-city wildlife space, equestrian use, and even pickle ball courts. One proposal even wants to move our field to the wash basin of what was arguably the worst nuclear core meltdown in US history in 1959 and was covered up for something like 30 years. It is still not widely known even by the half million people who live within a ten mile radius.
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