Take action NOW – Please send this letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and your local, state, and federal representatives, including members of US Congress: 

https://www.change.org/p/move-sky-combat-ace-out-of-kvgt/u/34188428

Secretary Sean Duffy calls it "The Golden Age of Travel", But is it really the "Golden Age of Abuse by the Privileged"?

 

 

The disconnect isn’t accidental, it’s contempt for the American working class: Reform FAA's Nextgen:

 

 

Please attend the Board of County Commissioners Meeting and reject rapid expansion of VGT at the expense of Clark County residents. 

Ask the board to MOVE sky combat ace and similar sounding operators to an airport outside the city limit. or move them back to Henderson >> Meetings occur the first and third Tuesdays of each month.

Pollution, Profit & Power: Where the FAA is Prioritizing Flyboy Fantasies Over Public safety:

https://www.change.org/p/move-sky-combat-ace-out-of-kvgt/u/34087673

How FAA's $45 Billion NextGen is HARMING you, your family and your future:

https://www.change.org/p/move-sky-combat-ace-out-of-kvgt/u/33972668

 

 

It's not just the Toxic Air you and your Family Breathe causing Health issues, it's the serious safety concerns, mid air collision and frequent crashes of small planes into densely populated residential areas. These are the prices you pay for corporate lobbying:

 

 

The hostile takeover of our skies by the top 0.1%: where FAA sacrifices public safety and health in favor of noisy flyover adrenaline-junkie hobbyist deviants:

 

 

The FAA has abandoned the safety of the American people to serve the 0.1% who are joyriding tyrants, tormenting the residents below:

 

 

How Pilots at North Las Vegas and other GA Airports Engage in Aerial Harassment and Psychological Tormenting of fed up residents who file noise and safety complaints with the FAA, abusive port authorities:

 

 

"It's a CRIMINAL OUTRAGE that a Federal Agency (FAA) will license TOXIC noise and air pollution and our representatives stand idly by this criminal racket and co-sign their abusive behavior" FAA's Nextgen Victim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrxoF13pleM

Ways of “ignoring” the public, corporate denial and victimization of FAA’s nextgen victims; Abusive Pilots at North Las Vegas Airport and other GA airports routinely harass residents who file noise and safety complaints with abusive aviation department and FAA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO1IffEmN40&t=6s

The FAA is a captured federal agency by aviation powerful lobby groups that is destroying communities and is damaging the American people’s lives and well-being: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iReN91YQ35s

Sky Combat Ace loud E300s and "Blue Air Training Corp" - affiliated/owned by Sky Combat Ace and 100s of rogue air operates - terrorizing your neighborhood, using multiple LOUD planes, harassing Summerlin, and densely populated Las Vegas (6 am - 12 am) with egregious noise, TOXIC air pollution, and harassment flybys exceeding FAA's legal limit of 65 decibel. 

Your neighborhood, peace and tranquility is BEING 'CONFISCATED' and SOLD to become aviation playground (closed concentrated flightpaths unrestricted by FAA), while many of these planes have crashed just in the past few months, and at the same time disturb senior residents who have no longer any peace and quiet as these low flying aerobatic joyriding planes make money from our golf course flyovers.

The real cost of America's Aviation Subsidies: Fighting for our lives & lives of future generation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EodIYEkOD8o

The $45 Billion Question What Went Wrong with FAA's Nextgen Modernization or Mismanagement & Misery?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Phr5YOXos

China's Maglev is FASTER than PLANES, it's CHEAP for every day commute, and it produces NO noise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIZAT7h9sg4

Millions of Americans are being POISONED; The dirty TRUTH about FAA’s low altitude planes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0bX5oTCn8Q

FAA's Nextgen means HELL for American families:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzdP7L28vLY

From Oversight to Enabler: FAA’s MOSAIC Rewards Irresponsible General Aviation Behavior Over Populated Area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqmr-3lnVfc

The FAA with the help of corporate politicians, and corrupt members of US congress have declared WAR on American public:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQXii__XQ84

Sky Combat Ace flies LOUD E300s to TORMENT Las Vegas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03a_63E7-mY

Millions of Americans are being POISONED; The dirty TRUTH about FAA’s low altitude toxic spewing planes: https://www.change.org/p/move-sky-combat-ace-out-of-kvgt/u/32928400 

The FAA with supreme authority over ALL regulatory aspects of aviation is BETRAY the American people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWeT3YbgJo

FAA's low flying Toxic spewing planes are damaging the American public & destroying our communities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vg0XvAwWW0

Recent safety concerns and fatal crashes at North Las Vegas Airport; FAA’s Inaction and belligerent indifference is Fueling Deadly Plane Crashes and Fires in American Neighborhoods, Putting American Lives at Risk:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ypzTvbFSs&t=171s

Sky Combat Ace is now routinely tuning off transponders in a busy airspace, relentlessly FOCUSING on Summerlin, Las Vegas, to assault and decimate residents with rogue ear-shattering flybys, dives and aerobatic maneuvers.

• The FAA is a captured federal agency by aviation powerful lobby groups that is destroying communities and is damaging the American people’s lives and well-being, has laid waste to our environment and has exposed the American people to UNSAFE levels of loud ear-damaging decibels and TOXIC air emissions; these harmful Pollutants are dumped all over our communities at low altitudes and are linked to VIOLENT crimes, respiratory disease, asthma, cancer, heart disease, abnormal fetal growth, Alzheimer's and dementia, they are harming the human genes at the DNA level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpmaNkvWnPc

• The American people know and have experienced many times that we have fallen victims to corrupt agencies that have NO ethics or moral conscience. The FAA with the help of abusive aviation authorities (Clark county aviation department and its condescending director James Chrisley, DIRECTING & subsidizing heavy assault on our homes) is allowed to act above the law, by poisoning millions of Americans every single day. 

• The more we ask for a solution to this never-ending nightmare, the more we are bombarded with deception, truth denial and web of harassment, egregious lies and propaganda perpetuated against us.

• We must act in every community and expose their secrets and dark web of LIES by shining the light on the TRUTH; The American people are under heavy assault, retaliation, aviation bullying and abuse, TRUTH denial, blatant lack of regard for the evidence in front of them & the mounting human health crisis- toxic air & carbon poisoning, harming our citizens, our children - despite enduring YEARS of abuse and aerial assault.

• Congress has enabled the aviation industry to trample all over our most basic human rights and FAA is their enforcing thug. 

This is a reminder that a vote for Susie Lee and other politicians is a vote for thuggery and bullying of the American people, and it's a vote for inflation, inequity & climate terrorism, It's a vote for constant community disruption by rogue aviation players and intense and dangerous operations of sky combat ace, which at any time can CRASH into our homes, as they have before, and kill people. Sky Combat Ace has been kicked out of Henderson and other ports, because city officials deemed them extremely dangerous to the health and safety of their residents. It is time to VOTE OUT members of congress (Rep. Susie Lee) and other politicians (commissioners, Mayors and city council members - Allen-Palenske) UNWILLING to deal with this very serious quality of life, HEALTH and safety issue. 

• The FAA with supreme authority over ALL regulatory aspects of aviation is falsely claiming lack of authority, the FAA DOES NOT lack authority, it LACKS humanity, the FAA is ABUSING its sovereign authority to empower rogue and dangerous aviation activities, right above your home.

The Awful sound of sky combat E300s exceeds FAA's legal limit of 65 decibels. Sky Combat Ace awful war games will DEVALUE YOUR HOME PRICES and scare your cats and dogs, they RISK YOUR LIFE with their belligerence, recklessness and lack of oversight.

• The FAA is NOT enforcing safety regulations and quiet zones, they are ALLOWING with belligerent indifference the tormenting of the American people, they are allowing abusive general aviation to use repetitive, UNSAFE and dangerously LOUD DECIBELS as a weapon of TORTURE: https://www.change.org/p/move-sky-combat-ace-out-of-kvgt/u/32355451
• The most shameless agency after FAA is US congress, complicit enough to give FAA a free ride at our expense, it’s been too long & FAA continues to have their way by empowering rogue and dangerous aviation activities right above congested areas and crop dust, horrid noise & lead over American people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdlotLqKzBs

The intrusive and dangerous flying behavior of Parasitical Sky Combat Ace, abusive Vegas Aviation, West Air flight Training and Chennault Flying Services has frankly been CRIMINAL & SHAMELESS. They have been aggressive enough and noisy enough to make the lives of those on the ground a misery and they should be sued and/or prosecuted for TARGETING protesting residents, manslaughter, assault, abuse and relentless auditory torture, public nuisance and endangerment of our lives and threatening residents’ mental and physical health.

Parasitical Sky Combat Ace (with history of FATAL crashes, major safety concerns, aviation bullying and ABUSE) + ABUSIVE Vegas Aviation- 400 low flying planes are TARGETING protesting residents with flybys, dives and low altitude maneuvers. Parasitical Vegas Aviation and abusive West air flight training have been blasting their engines and targeting protesting residents.

• The three pillars of aircraft noise, stunt planes and war games: Money. Politics. Lobbyists. It's not rocket science: https://www.change.org/p/move-sky-combat-ace-out-of-kvgt/u/32230029 
• Boeing and greedy aviation businesses have bent the regulator and are evading serious safety regulations, the FAA has become a captured regulator pressuring its own inspectors to ignore critical plane issues while firing FAA’s whistleblowers who dare to speak up or warn the public about critical planes issues like engine corrosion (planes are losing door in Mid-air), safety breaches and this overly cozy relationship between the regulator and the regulated that was a contributing factor in the horrific Boeing 737 Max crashes. 
• “Subjection to noise” is a violation of the UN Convention Against Torture. A especial holiday gift from the City, FAA and Clark county to residents who pay for their salaries, in form of toxic, NEVER-ENDING bombardment of our homes by abusive flight schools and touring businesses, TARGETING protesting residents and horrors of stunt planes and their war games: https://www.change.org/p/move-sky-combat-ace-out-of-kvgt/u/32230029 

The constant harassment of American people through abusive recreational pilots should be viewed as the invoice for ANOTHER FAILURE by the FAA to protect American people from the wrath of general aviation (non-essential flight) and excessive noise and fuel pollution.

• FAA is a WILY FOE armed with unlimited power, they can send screaming jets on top of your home 24/7: https://www.change.org/p/move-sky-combat-ace-out-of-kvgt/u/32147195 
• The avaricious aviation industry has bent the regulator and complicit government conspire to gaslight the public and greenwash aviation abuse and assault. American people are being asked to bear egregious repetitive noise, horrible air quality, and air pollution, suffer negative health consequences and bear contribution to climate change while rogue aviation keeps making money off of our pain and suffering.

 

 

FAA with supreme authority over all regulatory aspects of aviation is FAILING the American people: https://www.change.org/p/move-sky-combat-ace-out-of-kvgt/u/32022540

• “FAA is effectively a captured regulator. FAA is not serving the nation; instead, FAA is serving to enable excessive operations (and impacts) by aviation players, who gain financially with FAA inaction and delays, often aided by current FAA employees who have conflicts of interest due to other non-FAA aviation work” according to Jeff Lewis, a former FAA air traffic controller who was forced to early retirement after raising concerns about safety breaches.
  
• FAA inspectors say they've been pressured to ignore critical plane problems: "Public needs to WAKE UP": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lJfcawv6Yo
  

WARNING: Rogue aviation turning off its transponders from public to harass, assault, and decimate: STOP turning off your transponders while aerially assaulting and targeting us with low and dangerous maneuvers and other forms of pilot aggression. 

We are enduring one of the WORST ASSAULTS against our communities for daring to speak up and exposing the FAA and menacing and polluting aviation businesses driven by FILTH, greed and utter property theft. 400 low flying planes a day (small planes + low flying helicopters + sociopathic aerobatic warmongers) are relentlessly TARGETING protesting residents with flybys, aerobatic dives, and dangerous maneuvers. The Clark County aviation department refusing to share request information 702-261-3694 and is coercing residents by disclosing personal information to law enforcement.

Businesses like Sky combat Ace with history of FATAL crashes and safety concerns (BANNED in Oceanside/CA and kicked out of Henderson/NV), get a beautiful, uncontrolled, FREE playground, while residents pay property taxes, bear constant noise and fuel pollution and are subjugated to loud decibels and dangerous maneuvers and have to suffer LOSS OF HOME EQUITY.

North Las Vegas Airport is now located in the center of the town (due to new construction growing all around it). KVGT is one of the examples of the largest impacts FAA's Nextgen is currently having over densely populated residential neighborhoods: ‘Concentrated & Repetitive’ closed pattern work associated with flight schools and abusive recreational pilots like Sky Combat Ace, Vegas Aviation, West Air Flight Training, Flyright Aviation, or BBL Ventures (Montana),TACTICAL INTEGRATED TRAINING SOLUTIONS (Colorado), where they get to exploit their privileges by performing incessant touch and go patterns on top of densely populated residential neighborhoods, 24/7.

 

 

Residents are very upset, but are completely disempowered. Reporting individual flights to individual airport operations is ridiculous for a huge, systemic problem. Making a complaint is manually intensive, and opens one up to more harassment, aviation bullying and ABUSE, and produces no results. The Clark county department of aviation has made it CLEAR that residents have NO SAY. That Sky Combat Ace bottom line comes before the residents' health, safety and sanity. Complain too much and your complaints are ignored or worse, you'd be targeted, harassed and retaliated against by Abusive recreational pilots. Noise and operations measurement procedures are ludicrously self serving. Noise abatement policies and roundtables are disingenuous facades. And at every turn, we are reminded that FAA is in charge of the skies, making abusive recreational pilots even more EMBOLDENED to harass and decimate residents with noise and fuel pollution since they have seen a systematic lack of enforcement or inaction by the agency.

WARNING:

The Clark county department of aviation has been disclosing residents' personal information with other parties without their consent. In an attempt to shut residents up, Clark County has suggested that there is nothing anyone could do and unhappy residents should move out of their homes if they don't like noise and devastation of Sky Combat Ace and other abusive recreational pilots.

The imbalance of power, between the aviation community and the non-aviation community has only worsened. A minority (Sky Combat Ace with history of illegal substance abuse, FATAL CRASHES and major safety concerns) increasingly DOMINATES the majority in a classic inequity. This inequity is wrong. Reforms are long overdue, and require action by Congress and FAA. When will they step up and fix this?

 <<<<<<<<<<<      ===      SKY COMBAT ACE     ===      >>>>>>>>>>>

Dismissed in Henderson, NV and BANNED in Oceanside, CA, Sky Combat Ace is deliberately and routinely TARGETING and HARASSING NW and Summerlin Las Vegas. 

Sky Combat Ace has been exploiting the FAA's loopholes to be able to operate in a regulatory vacuum, with little or no oversight: N466MD , N247MA, N69XT, N269KD, N21XT, N763DT, and N700DX.

<<<  ---  The FAA's statement about Sky Combat Ace: "SO CARELESS OR RECKLESS SO AS TO ENDANGER THE LIFE OR PROPERTY OF ANOTHER" ---  >>> 

 

 

Sky Combat Ace had prior fatal crashes of the same model plane in Nevada and California, after the same plane was previously cited by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for violating federal law with illegal and dangerous maneuvers. Contact The FAA and Congress and tell them to BAN Sky Combat Ace within City Limit.

"Due to bad weather, the victim Steve Anthony Peterson asked Sky Combat Ace for a refund. But little he knew that Sky Combat Ace greedy owner Richard “Tex” Coe doesn't give refunds, and flies "rain or shine". It says essentially customers must go on the flights with the company’s instructor pilots or forfeit their fare money - "FLY and DIE" is Sky Combat Ace refund policy.

The victim was reminded of company’s refund policy. It states that Sky Combat Ace “flights are nonrefundable inside of 48 hours. SCA is not responsible for any changes, delays or rescheduling due to unscheduled maintenance, inclement weather, the actions of independent contractors, or Acts of God.”

Sky Combat Ace crash in Nevada killed Steve Anthony Peterson and Ben Soyars, the E300 pilot. Steve Peterson “was my son’s brother-in-law that was a passenger, not a student,” Larry Delp, of Las Vegas, wrote in an email to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “He died BECAUSE OF THE GREED OF THE OWNER, Richard "Tex" Coe.” Peterson left behind a pregnant wife Leah who was expecting a baby at the time.

Here is NTSB's Factual Report on Sky Combat Ace fatal accident in Henderson, NV. Witnesses told NTSB they saw SCA's loud E300s performing "aerobatic-like" maneuvers before crashing. The report had TWO MAJOR CONCERNING FINDINGS:

1. First and foremost, the report finds the pilot had detectable levels of THC (marijuana) in his blood and tissue. The fact that Sky Combat Ace E300 pilot had any amount of an illegal substance (marijuana did not become legal in Nevada until several months after the accident) is deeply disturbing.

2. Secondly, the report calls into question if the flight operation is operated legally by CFR 14.91 and .61 (Instructional Flights), and suggests they should be legally required to hold a part 119 air carrier / commercial operator certificate and operate under the stricter 121 or 135 rules.

 

 

A  photo of Steve Peterson and his pregnant wife, Leah, released by the Peterson family. Image credit: pressdemocrat.com

BANNED or Dismissed in other places because they have killed people, Sky combat Ace obnoxiously loud E300s pose a SERIOUS SAFETY AND FIRE HAZARD. They are routinely flying on top of NW and Summerlin communities, even in extreme heat or thunderstorms. Last time they crashed in California, they caused a brush fire burning 20 acres of land around them.

MAJOR SAFETY CONCERNS AT NORTH LAS VEGAS AIRPORT AFTER THE SECOND DEADLY COLLISIONS: 

“KVGT is a very unforgiving airport. Flying is unforgiving to begin with. You can’t just have a fender bender and pull over and knock the dents out as was demonstrated in the recent crash. Mistakes in the flying world can be and usually are CATASTROPHIC, and there are many, many ways for pilots to make mistakes at North Las Vegas Airport” according to an active flight instructor and a retired Army Safety Specialist. https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/11/19/safety-concerns-continue-after-second-collision-north-las-vegas-airport-since-july/

According to research, you're more likely to DIE from exposure to toxic pollutants in plane exhaust than in a plane crash. Some of these planes are decades old and emit toxic pollutants like carbon, PM2.5, and lead over vulnerable communities that include seniors, restaurants, club houses, pregnant women, children, over and over. No amount of lead is safe for children or elderly with per-existing health conditions.

On a daily basis, 400 low flying planes are joyriding at least 12 hours a day, dumping poisonous lead on top of our community, at low altitude.

"Nevada is among one of the US states with some of the highest levels of leaded aviation activity and poisoning. Lead is a neurotoxin and there is an avalanche of scientific studies linking lead to violent crimes, cancer, cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s, dementia, nervous system issues, learning disabilities, breathing issues, asthma, respiratory disease, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease". 

General aviation BENEFITS itself while imposing large impacts upon many residents, according to FAA's own statistics, less than 5% of aviation is actually 'essential' (fire, rescue, emergency), 95% of aviation activity dumped on top of Summerlin homes is purely recreational.  

The general aviation has proven to cross every line to preserve its bottom line, at the expense of the residents in the valley

Billions of dollars a year are spent to subsidize General Aviation (GA) airports and abusive GA pilots. The whole business model is fundamentally exploitative, relying on public subsidies, free airspace, golf courses, lakes, and public parks. Flight and touring businesses get a beautiful, uncontrolled, FREE playground, while residents pay property taxes, bear constant noise and fuel pollution and have to suffer LOSS OF HOME EQUITY.

WHAT AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SAYING:

HARASSMENT OF RESIDENTS WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT NOISE AND SAFETY ISSUES OF ROGUE BUSINESSES LIKE SKY COMBAT ACE AND OTHER LOW FLYING PLANES IS REAL AND DOCUMENTABLE. ‘I think I am afraid for my safety’: Woman worries she’ll be targeted for bringing concerns over airport noise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bQzzLnHO90

 

 

Under FAA’s benevolence, a few abusive GA pilots are engaging in polluting, self-serving pursuit at expense of many. GA pilots have incentive to grow & behave with total impunity. For them, literally, the SKY'S THE LIMIT. OUR LIVES and OUR NEIGHBORHOODS - WE'RE JUST COLLATERAL DAMAGE": https://www.regulations.gov/document/FAA-2021-0037-0370

N9315M, N474MC, N5230J SUNDANCE HELICOPTERS. Tragedy in Sin City: Newlywed pilot and couple among five killed as Vegas tour helicopter crashes into mountain.

Jury awards $16M in Sundance helicopter crash.

(N339SG), N1824J.

(N235TG), (N702NV),  (N63456), (N870S), (N44KY), (N6072S), N232DS, (N528PC), (N517PZ), (N157TD), (N9520Q), (N330TZ), (N910MC), (N989RA), (N273KQ), (N238AM), (N598BM), (N5520S), (N1236M), (N825US), (N150RG), (72316), (N532ND), (N2550), (N98GR), (N61AU), (N5179U), (N475TZ ), (N624PA, N9572H, N8374L, N737RL), (N338ME), N4269T, 72265   BLUE AIR TRAINING CORP, (N823SH, N823TA, N823HR and N810BA), (N2885K), (N6855Q). (N4940E N734XH)

"Low flying planes will DEVALUE home prices in Summerlin. Not to mention they RISK OUR LIVES with their recklessness, belligerence and lack of safety oversight. the Insanity is that no one is STOPPING them, it's a NEVER ENDING NIGHTMARE living underneath their daily flight path now. Like NextGen, they are the FAA’s Carte Blanche to Wreak Havoc on the residents' Ears, Health, Sanity and Serenity. Similar to the FAA's NextGen, they are an ASSAULT WEAPON AND A TORTURE DEVICE and have been developed with a complete disregard to surface dwelling human beings and will without doubt destroy the lives & goals of thousands of residents underneath their daily flight path".

 

 

Vegas Aviation registered under ACE OF SPADES AVIATION LLC flying low on top of Vegas. Vegas Aviation experienced Landing Gear Collapse and their planes sustained substantial damage to the left aileron and left wing.

 

 

In addition to constant noise, there are long-term impacts of continuous exposure to toxic aircraft emission at low altitudes. Should families wait until their loved ones turn up with elevated rates of cancer and respiratory disease in ten years, and then demand the FAA and/or Congress do something? 

 

 

N63456 owned by Vegas Aviation is harassing Las Vegas with flybys below Federal regulations. 

 

 

Sky Combat Ace had prior fatal crashes of the same model plane in Nevada and California, after the same plane was previously cited by the FAA for violating federal law with illegal and dangerous maneuvers. 

 

 

According to Sky Combat Ace (SCA) website, "SCA offers a truly unique aviation experience at a whole new level of adrenaline. At SCA, you’re not just a passenger on a joy ride. You are a steely-eyed fighter pilot at the controls of your very own ‘fighter jet,’ pulling Gs and squeezing the trigger to ‘get the kill.” 

"Our flight tours also allow the students with no flight experience to fly and control the acrobatic plane while the instructor teaches the art of aerial dogfighting" reads the company's website.

Yes, these are the actual words of the company itself. For years, SCA has been feeding a bunch of tourists who are ADRENALINE JUNKIES and want to experience live air combat simulation at the expense of Las Vegas residents. Sky Combat Ace was moved out of Henderson due to numerous safety and noise complaints. But unlike Henderson Executive which is located almost outside the City Limit, KVGT is located in the center of the town. SCA has modified their engines to be super loud like sports cars. 

The irony is that SCA has been continuing to push the envelope and regularly place ordinary people with no flight experience in very dangerous air-combat situations. 

The tourists know the risks or what they are signing up for, but what about tens of thousands of homes that are being placed underneath their flight path on a daily basis? SCA has now occupied this airspace with no opportunity for regulation or feedback from the residents. Is this the risk that the local authorities and the FAA are willing to take, even if it means that one of Sky Combat E300s crashes again, this time on top of densely populated residential neighborhoods?

While the residents underneath their flight path might think their E300s are safe, Sky Combat Ace is actually playing with numbers and statistics suggesting that the risk of fatal injuries involving their planes are just one in 10,000 flights."Whether it’s aerial combat simulation, skydiving, or stunt flying, things go wrong and people will GET HURT AND DIE. It is grossly irresponsible of these businesses to continue to subject folks to such a high risk of harm, and the authorities need to step in and reconsider the wisdom, and legality, of these outfitters.” says the aviation injury attorney, lamented Bohrer.

As mentioned, SCA has had a long history of noted safety issues and concerns well documented with the FAA and NTSB.

In fact, Sky Combat Ace is operating under "passenger-carrying operations", which fall under less restrictive regulations than airlines do for things such as pilot training and maintenance. This has allowed Sky Combat Ace to EXPLOIT LOOPHOLES in FAA regulations to AVOID STRICTER OVERSIGHT.

 

 

The image below shows a normal day of air traffic in Las Vegas. 99% of the traffic at KVGT or Harry Reid is being rerouted towards the west of the airports. 

 

 

The traffic at KVGT is now being DOMINATED by touring businesses like Sky Combat Ace or other similar sounding companies that were BANNED or kicked out of other places.

 

 

Low flying planes (with history of noise/safety issues) don’t belong to an affluent residential neighborhood. Pick up the phone and call your local representative and tell them to act. 

 

 

FAA, the City and the airport have FAILED to implement good policies for noise mitigation and don't care about noise pollution and are unable to represent the interest of residents and the American people as a whole and only care about the airport and associated businesses.The FAA, Airport and paid specialists could not do worse of a job.

Las Vegas is the 9th busiest airport in US, however we do not have a meaningful noise mitigation. 

 

 

 

Keep in mind that there are major safety concerns regrading north Las Vegas airport after the second collision at KVGT since July 2022.

"North Las Vegas has become a DANGEROUS AIRPORT. It is very confusing. There is high-flight training there. In my opinion, now as a retired Army Safety Specialist, North Las Vegas Airport needs to do a safety standdown and stop all operations… for a full day and gather all stakeholders, the FAA, the county, all flight schools, stop all operations, close this airport, and figure out how to prevent these accidents and renumber those runways,”  says Will Bradley, an active flight instructor and a retired Army Safety Specialist.https://www.fox5vegas.com/video/2022/08/24/faa-shares-north-las-vegas-airport-safety-concerns-with-pilots-after-deadly-crash/

According to Bradley, KVGT is the second busiest airport in the state, proffering complex airspace adjacent to both Harry Reid and Nellis Air Force Base. The airspace in and out of North Las Vegas is condensed, and features many pilots learning to fly.

The residents west of KVGT also believe that CHANGES CANNOT WAIT AND THERE ARE LIVES AT STAKE. Keep in mind that there is terrain around and many of these low flying planes are dangerously maneuvering over residential homes west of KVGT and adding to the built-up of traffic here.

EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO CONTACT THE CITY AND THE FAA. CHANGE WILL ONLY COME WHEN WE ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS AND HOLD THE CITY, THE FAA, THE AIRPORT AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES ACCOUNTABLE.

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Some of these low flying planes are in violation of:

- Pilots / schools are violating FAR 91.119B Minimum Safe Altitudes:Over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons, an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2,000 feet of the aircraft.

- Sky Combat has modified their aircraft to be in violation of Part 36 Noise Standards and Airworthiness Certification.

- Violating Part 91.303 Aerobatic Flight:No person may operate an aircraft in aerobatic flight —(a) Over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement ;(b) Over an open air assembly of persons;(c) Within the lateral boundaries of the surface areas of Class B, Class C, Class D, or Class E airspace designated for an airport;(d) Within 4 nautical miles of the center line of any Federal airway;(e) Below an altitude of 1,500 feet above the surface; or(f) When flight visibility is less than 3 statute miles.

Keep in mind that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has been calling for stricter oversight of Sky Combat Ace and other touring businesses after several deadly crashes in recent years. Sky Combat Ace is operating under rules for "passenger-carrying operations", which fall under a lot less restrictive regulations than airlines do. This has allowed Sky Combat Ace to exploit loopholes in FAA regulations in order to avoid stricter oversight. Sky Combat Ace advertising itself as an “adrenaline rush package” and other thrill-seeking rides, DOES NOT sound like a flight school. “This is one of the most egregious examples of exploiting a loophole, in my opinion,” board member Jennifer Homendy said After Sky Combat California crash.

 

 

The engine of Sky Combat E300s and Blue Air Training Corp are modified to sound like loud sports cars. 

 

 

This will have a negative impact on house prices, no one would want to pay for an overly priced home in a neighborhood with loud aerobatic planes flying over all the time.

This is a free country and people can do what they like but they shouldn’t do it over settlements or in a way that disturbs others, definitely not with complete and total impunity to harm our basic quality of life. We live in middle of a desert and there’s plenty of open space around and they can easily be moved to outskirt of the city like Jean airport. The local authorities should be able to represent the interest of the area as a whole, not just the airport and associated businesses.

 

 

So far, the airport, the FAA and local authorities have been REFUSING to listen or take any actions against the perpetrators and move low flying planes (that belong to flight schools and touring businesses, some registered outside NV) to Jean airport.

The FAA is allowing American citizens to be exposed to unsafe levels of plane noise.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<   ---- A BLACK HOLE ----   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The authorities passing the buck to one another. 

In the past few months, the residents' noise/safety complaints to the airport has directly gone into a black hole, never to be seen or acknowledged again. The general opinion in the area is that complaints to the FAA are routed to the same trash bin. Contact Sky Combat/flight schools directly, and they send you to the airport; contact the airport and they send you to the FAA; contact the FAA and they claim that there's nothing they can do, or there is insufficient evidence to bring any reprimands or prosecution against those who are flagrantly and repeatedly violating guidelines, voluntary or no. 

This is the sound of regulatory inaction from all agencies and individuals responsible for regulating this kind of traffic. The regulatory bodies are not doing their job and they are letting chaos take its course by pitting neighborhoods against one another.

Keep in mind that according to Clark County Department of Aviation, Harry Reid International Airport is on a trajectory to reach its capacity of between 63 million and 65 million annual passengers by around 2030. This issue is just going to get worse and our City is in need of a a second commercial airport outside the City Limit. 

It's not sensible to have an international airport in downtown rerouting all the traffic to west of the airport, spewing noise to all other residential neighborhoods, even those far away from the airport. The local authorities and the City should have thought about this problem ahead of time before building an entire City around major airports. San Fransisco prevented overflight issue and noise issue by building SFO Airport adjacent to the Bay Area so the runways are around the Bay (for taking off/landing), insulating residential homes from airplane noise.

John Wayne Airport in SoCal is located near some expensive neighborhoods. Before implantation of NextGen, They had successfully passed ordinances where planes need to climb up as fast as they can out of the airport, then cruise for 5 minutes to reduce noise, and then climb again once they are out of the City. Here in Las Vegas, low flying loud planes have become super common. At the very least, minimum altitude can be changed, considering the fact that the FAA is sending heavy traffic over densely populated residential neighborhoods, instead of diverting heavy traffic away from it.

These two cities were the examples of flightpaths before implantation of NextGen. After implementation of NextGen, Flightpaths have changed for many Cities across US, including SFO and John Wayne. Find out how NextGen has been FAA’s Carte Blanche to dismantle and discard decades-old noise mitigation agreements, across all airports in US.

Nextgen is FAA's Carte Blanche to send screaming jets at low altitude over densely populated residential neighborhoods. But if there is ever a crash, these planes (depending on their size) can take out a few homes or a few blocks all together. The FAA and the so called specialists finally did it, the so called "right-turn" that sends the majority of traffic over the valley, they call it "environmental and sound project". Testing the efficiency of their toxic fuels and horrendous noise on the residents below throughout the valley. They are experimenting on us, like lab rats.

 

 

“Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere,” William Stewart, U.S. surgeon general

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), though, safe noise levels are only 45 dB DNL for indoor noise and 55 dB DNL for outdoor noise. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends lower aircraft noise levels: 45 dB Day-Evening-Night Level (adding a 5 dB penalty for noise between 7-10 p.m.) and 40 dB at night. Both EPA safe noise levels and WHO recommended aircraft noise levels are obviously much lower than the FAA’s 65 dB. Sky Combat Ace group tours and loud E300s even exceed the FAA's noise limit of 65 dB (even at a 1000 ft).

Being annoyed or disturbed by aircraft noise is stressful.  Stress increases heart rate and blood pressure. Stress increases blood levels of stress hormones.  Stress causes inflammation of the blood vessel lining. in turn causing cardiovascular disease, including hypertension and heart attacks, and other adverse health effects. Scientific experts think that the evidence is strong enough to establish causality, not merely a statistical association. Epidemiological studies demonstrating these effects have been confirmed by human and animal research. The biological mechanisms are now understood at the cellular, subcellular, molecular, and genetic levels.Children are also more sensitive to damage from noise, which also interferes with learning.

 

 

It's not like we are asking the authorities to solve complex issues like high inflation, high rent, poverty, rise in crime, etc, etc. This is not rocket science and we are not asking for a lot. We are asking for for a logical solution to bring peace and quiet back into our residential neighborhoods, so we can sleep and work the next day and pay for our expensive mortgages, property tax and keep the local economy going. Tell the local authorities and regulatory bodies to govern for a change and move low flying offensive planes to Jean Airport.

Please contact Congresswoman Lee through Zip Code Lookup | Representative Susie Lee (house.gov) or call 702-963-9336 and have your voices heard.

FAA’s Flight Standards District Office: (702) 617-8500. Email: Manager Richard Falcon, Email: James.Brown@FAA.GOV Subject " Hotline Complain"

Commissioner Becker (district C): Phone: (702) 455-4901.

Senator Nicole Cannizzaro for district C (Nicole.Cannizzaro@sen.state.nv.us), North Las Vegas Mayor Pamela Goynes-Brown (702) 633-1007, and councilwoman Allen-palenske (702) 334-0939.

Councilwoman Victoria Seaman: 702-229-2420

Councilwoman Brune: 702-229-5463

Mayor Shelly Berckely: 702-229-6241

North Las Vegas Airport Noise Complaint Office (Hotline: 702-261-3694, or Direct Line: 702-261-5600)

Western-Pacific Region Aircraft Noise Complaint: 9-awp-noise@faa.gov

Clark County Department of Aviation: 702-261-4525

Thank you for your support. We need to keep the pressure up.