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Santa Barbara Airport officials pursue private GPS approaches after FAA reduces procedure maintenance
Summary
Airport staff told the commission July 10 that the FAA is reducing nationwide maintenance of instrument approaches and that the city is exploring a contractor to design standalone GPS approaches for Runway 7 and Runway 25 to improve minimums and support noise-abatement paths.
The Santa Barbara Airport Commission heard July 10 that the Federal Aviation Administration is reducing the number of instrument approaches it maintains nationwide and that airport staff plan to pursue a consultant to design standalone GPS approaches for Runway 7 and Runway 25.
Airport Director Haster told the commission the FAA has stopped maintaining some GPS overlay approaches and that the airport has an opportunity to hire a consultant with a letter of agreement with the FAA to design new procedures. "They removed that approach. They're not even maintaining those approaches nationwide anymore," Haster said. He said the consultant would design approaches that could be flight-checked and published, and that the FAA might not take over maintenance immediately because of workload.
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