To the editor: As a basic aviation pilot who has flown out and in of Hollywood Burbank Airport a whole lot of instances, I discover this text unnecessarily scary to the flying public (“Why some concern Burbank airport is an accident ready to occur. ‘All people has had issues,’” Feb. 6). Nowhere within the article is there point out of the truth that no pilot will be on this airspace with out radio contact with Air Visitors Management. The air visitors controllers, these unseen heroes of the aviation system, know precisely the place everyone seems to be as a result of all airplanes, together with the trainers at Van Nuys, have transponders that emit a sign that’s seen to ATC on the radar.
For as busy because the airspace is, I’ve discovered it remarkably protected. Van Nuys planes land and take off north-south. Touchdown planes at Burbank nearly all the time come from the west and can’t descend under 3,000 toes till they’ve crossed the Van Nuys runways.
I see this text as creating unneeded fear to the flying public and the folks on the bottom. And after a whole lot of hundreds of flights over a long time, what number of midair collisions have there been on this airspace? I consider none.
Doug Jones, Los Feliz
