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Feedback: To criticism of airport board Manager of Columbia-Adair County Airport responds to criticism of airport board for not allowing access for a proposed fly-in community Editor, ColumbiaMagazine.com: In response to Mr. Miller's submission to Columbia magazine: Does Mr. Miller understand the compexities of dealing with state and federal government where it concerns airport regulation and the safety of the population? My name is John Ford and I am the volunteer airport manager for the Columbia-Adair county airport. Plan A for the airport has and always will be for the lengthening of the runway. Industry will not locate in a town with a runway of 2600 feet such as we have. The reason they won't is because they cannot fly corporate aircraft safely into a runway of our size, which means that if a manufacturing plant goes down and they need to fly in support personnel they have to land elsewhere, rent a car and probably a hotel room, and what was a one day ordeal now becomes a two or three day job. Why locate in a town with a 2600 ft strip when there are plenty of 4 and 5 thousand ft strips out there? Now you mentioned installing a gate on the north side of the runway to attract homeowners, when in reality the more that that land is developed the more it will cost to lengthen the runway because the longer the runway gets, the wider it has to be. The wider the runway, the more property has to purchased, and developed land costs a lot more than undeveloped land. So the gate on the north side of the runway, although is not out of the question, would not be the prudent course to take for the benefit of the entire population of Adair county. It would have two consequences because of the added cost of expansion in a developed area, first it would virtually insure that the airport not be expanded until the population reaches a certain density, by state estimations approximatly 20 to 25 years and second if the gate situation is not properly handled it would leave the taxpayers with another burden, something I as a taxpayer am not willing to do unless directed by city and county leaders to specifically do so. I have been studying airports that have successfully had through the fence operations and if properly handled it can be a positive influence on a local economy, but as a general rule of thumb through the fence operations are frowned upon by state and federal government simply because of the safty concerns of crossing the runway. I would personally like to invite anyone interested in attending a board meeting of the Columbia Adair county airport to come and sit in. These meetings are open to the public and are held the third Thursday evey month at the airport lounge at 6:00pm. Please feel welcome to attend so that you won't cast about hurtfull uneducated remarks that does no one any good. The growth that you elude to will make money for a handfull of people, kill any chance at future expansion and have no real impact on the people who paid for and continue to pay for the airport: the taxpayers of Adair County. Your community leaders and I have been trying very hard to expand your airport for the benefit of the entire community, not just a handful, and in the future if we see that a runway expansion project is not likely to happen, then a fly-in community--or plan B--as I like to call it is our next best option. John Ford Volunteer Manager Columbia-Adair County Airport To read the letter Mr. Ford is responding to, Click Here This story was posted on 2007-01-10 15:16:30
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