The purpose of this website is to enlighten existing and potential residents of these neighborhoods as to some of the quality of life issues regarding aircraft noise and safety concerns.

N319EP, an Epic Aviation asshole, who does 10 times more touch and gos at Edgewater than he does at his own airport, needlessly endangering the safety of the neighborhood taking off downwind, using runway 36 while 2 other aircraft were using runway 18.

9-25-19 6:00pm

But hey FAA, you know what's going on here, right? My ass.



Hey Danny Perna:

Keep your unsafe lazy ass pilots out of our neighborhoods. Your airplanes abuse this runway second only to Embry-Riddle. You have a handful off lazy punk instructors doing most of your touch and go dirty work in our neighborhoods in order to minimize the noise in yours. We put up with hundreds of flight operations here a week by a handful of your aircraft while often simultaneously your home airport has little to no traffic. Go to hell and don't bother passing Go. N187ER and N189ER

ERAU aka

Extreme Repetitive Abusive Users

&

Masters of the Unnecessary Downwind Takeoff N187ER downwind takeoff July 20, 2019

No less than 31 touch and gos taking off downwind N188ER downwind takeoff July 20, 2019

No less than 22 touch and gos taking off downwind Massey's discriminatory noise abatement policy in action

You watching FAA? Students pay $50,000+ a year tuition so they can spend 30+ hours a week at massey air park generating noise and carbon pollution doing touch and goes to practice for meaningless spot landing contests, making sure to always use a discriminatory noise abatement practice of using the same no wind and cross-wind runway. Their mothers must be so proud. July 4, 2018 - just another greedy day for Danny Perna and the dirtbag flight instructors at Epic-tard Aviation

N316EP, N166CS, N2446Z, N957TC - Epic-tard Flight Academy

Hey Perna - Keep the noise from your lazy low life apathetic flight instructors and illiterate foreign students at your base air port and out of Edgewater especially on national American holidays

No Respect for American tax payers or anything else but the Almighty Dollar 229 Days of Sunshine a Year

and the greedy flight schools and airpark owners can't take 1 lousy day off a year from training

Way to go Flight School Airpark, for such a wonderfully fake and meaningless noise abatement policy!!

Epic Aviation

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University,

Epic Aviation, ERIK Flight Academy, Air America Flight Center, Fright Training Express

all use a discrimintory noise abatement practice while training mostly non U.S. citizens to fly aircraft at uncontrolled Massey Airpark by always using the same no-wind and cross-wind runway, as their lazy pilots avoid control tower hassles of thier own controlled home based airports

ERIK Flight Academy of New Smyrna Beach in particular uses an irresponsible, unsafe, and totally unnecessary downwind practice while doing touch and goes at Massey Airpark as has been photo documented on this site

Aerial Messages of Daytona Beach

and other noise polluting banner towing companies

all use a discrimintory noise abatement practice while conducting commercial flight operations at Massey Airpark by always using a right hand pattern when using runway 18 and a normal left hand pattern when using runway 36 Tired of excessive commercial flight school aircraft noise generated by countless flight schools in the central Florida area abusing Massey Ranch Airpark runway on a daily basis?

Call the office and let them know how much you enjoy it

Massey Ranch Airpark

635 Air Park Rd, Edgewater, FL 32132

Phone 386-428-3818, 386-427-3100



While you're at it, let the Edgewater mayor and city commisioners know how you feel also. They feel that massey airpark is a 'gem of Edgewater' Mayor Michael Ignasiak - 386-478-1629

City Councilwoman Christine Power - 386-6585

Councilwoman Gigi Bennington - 386-427-1475

Councilman Dan Blazi - 386-6571

Councilman Gary Conroy - 386-314-7898

Ask them how the many outside flight schools based at other airports in Florida using Massey airpark runway on virtually daily basis benefit Edgewater.

Non-Edgewater flight schools such as:

Epic Aviation and ERIK Flight Academy based at New Smyrna Beach airport

Embry-Riddle University based at the Daytona Beach airport

Air America based at the Daytona Beach Airport

MC Flyers based at Spruce Creek Fly-IN where commercial touch and goes are prohibited so they come to Edgewater

ATP flight school based at the Daytona Beach airport

Dickinson Aviation based at the Daytona Beach Airport

Dirtbags of the Month:

Epic Aviation/ERIK Flight Academy

N2024Y, N2465H, N13974, N60603, N957TC and countless others

Hey Danny Perna, Go To Hell, for sending your lazy, incompetant instructors who cant teach people to fly airplanes without an excessive amount of touch and goes to Edgewater, so you can keep peace in the wigwam at your New Smyrna Beach based airport where touch and goes are banned on Sundays. Take the Massey's with you while you're at it for lying to the FAA about having no noise abatement policy while telling the Daytona Beach News Journal they do. FOAD Hey Embry-Riddle - Go To Hell

You spend hundreds of hours at Massey airpark and other airports a year filling neighborhoods with your noise, lead and carbon pollution. As the single most widely spread source of noise pollution in east central Florida you do little or nothing to address the issue. You spend millions of dollars on a telescope facility and oceanography projects - really? astronomy and oceanography at an aeronautical university? - whats next, maybe a cooking school?

Here's an idea Embry-Riddle: Why not spend some time and money on the problems you CAUSE in communities, things like quieter aircraft or your own runway training facility, and not just on things that benefit Embry-Riddle? But then, that wouldn't do anything to get your enrollment numbers up so you can cause even more noise, pollution and lower quality of life for neighborhoods. Good old corporate greed at its finest. Dirtbags of the past weeks:

Aerial Messages of Daytona Beach,

who a few years back lied to New Smyrna Beach to try to con them into letting them run their noise polluting business from NSB's airport instead of Massey airpark. They told New Smyrna that they don't do any repetitive flight training that the residents of New Smyrna were so tired of hearing from the flight schools. They do repetitive flight training several hours a day for a few weeks every year since they've been parked at massey airpark.

One of Danny Perna's boys in N957TC from ERIK Flight Academy of New Smyrna Beach doing what they do best, downwind flight operations, at Massey airpark on 12/23/2014 and 1/11/15 - an unsafe and totally unnecessary bad decision, to appease Massey's discriminatory 'noise abatement policy' of always using the same no-wind runway. Are you paying attention FAA? Or are you more concerned with promoting flight schools and bending the rules for them when it comes to reasonable noise restrictions and low fly violations? But you know what's going on at that airpark right? Of course you are aware of people taking off in bad weather, as yet another bad, and unfortunately fatal, flying decision was made at Massey Airpark sadly resulting in the death of a Japanese woman by crashing into the ocean in bad weather. Be aware, FAA, irresponsible pilots have been seen doing touch and goes at Massey airpark in the immediate vicinty of lightning storms and in severly limited visiblity conditions, not to mention downwind flight operations, simultaneous use of two different runways, reporting using runway 18 while they were actually using 36, not using the radio while doing repeated touch and goes. But since it's an uncontrolled airport you can do nothing about that, right? Make sure you're ready to explain that to the unfortunate family or resident that ends up on the receiving end of such a bad decision when, heaven forbid, it ever happens. Here's a quarter, FAA, buy a clue, before someone in this neighborhood gets killed by an irresponsible pilot, all in the name of the almighty dollar!

Embry-Riddel must be loving it, as most of the other area flight schools are laying low at Massey as the FAA investigation into the fatal accident continues at the facility. Isn't it nice having the otherwise useless runway to yourselves, just like old times? Whats the matter New Smyrna flight schools? It's not cool to come to Massey now for a while? Fear not, people have short memories, and things will be back to normal , and you'll all have your little gravy train back in no time.

Air America Flight Center:

N21692, N1419D, N5295Y, N19U

Business location: Daytona Beach International Airport

Flight operations at Massey Airpark per week = 200+

Hangar fees paid to Massey Airpark per week = $0

Fuel purchases paid to Massey Airpark per week = $0

Landing fees paid to Massey Airpark = $0

Christmas gifts to the Masseys = Anybody's guess Epic Aviation / ERIK Flight Academy:

N6030E, N957TC, N2024Y,

N545EP, N172RA, N60603

Business location: New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport

Flight operations at Massey Airpark per week = 500+

Hangar fees paid to Massey Airpark per week = $0

Fuel purchases paid to Massey Airpark per week = $0

Landing fees paid to Massey Airpark = $0

Christmas gifts to the Masseys = Anybody's guess To All You Gay Epic/ERIK Flyers

that seem to have to invade Massey Airpark 2 and 3 at a time

Good News: We've got a neighborhood collection together and are buying y'all hamsters. But don't think we're spendthrifts, we're saving a bundle by buying pre-owned, completely refurbished ERAU rodents.

Happy holidays girls Q: What do you see when an Epic/ERIK flight instructor bends over?

A: A cockpit

Way to go Massey Airpark, that's the way to get into flight training!

The flight school's home based airports make the money, while our neighborhoods get inundated with their noise.

Massey Airpark certainly is the "gem of Edgewater", just ask the 10's of commercial flight schools that use it for free on a regular daily and weekly basis for touch and go training.



Economically Worthless Lowlifes of the Month: Air America, Erik Flight Academy aka Epic Aviation, jr., and Epic Aviation ERIK FLIGHT ACADEMY aka Epic Aviation, jr., owned by the same family that owns Epic Aviation - gotta love those female business owned tax breaks,, huh Danny?

FOAD Danny

N2446Z, N957TC, N6060E

Based in New Smyrna Beach and comes to Edgewater before 8am Sunday mornings to spend all day there doing commercial flight training because their home based airport's reasonable noise abatement policy restricts touch and goes on Sundays Veterans Day November 14, 2014

Just another day in the life of greedy, self centered flight schools and airpark owners New Smyrna Beach based Epic Aviation

N60616, N11802, N10910 and others

training their foreign students at Massey Noise Park all month long again now that Embry-Riddle is on summer break

while using a discriminatory noise abatement practice to keep their worthless asses out of hot water with noisepark management apathoids

They bilked New Smyrna Beach taxpayers out of $1 Million to have an FAA control tower installed at their airport then come to Edgewater to do thier incessant touch and goes anyway.

You come to Edgewater because the tower at your airport won't let you do your incessant touch and gos in bad weather? Previous Lowlife award winners:

Epic Aviation - N11802, N944TT, N6036Y

Who spent half the day at massey airpark Sunday May 4 because his home airport's noise abatement policy prohibits touch-and-goes on Sundays

How's it feel Epic, to bilk the city of New Smyrna Beach out of $1 million to have an FAA control tower installed then use a privately owned runway for your incessant touch and goes because you're too lazy to listen to the control tower? Don't you low lifes forget to put the Masseys on your Christmas list.



Air America - N5199H

Unnecessary low flying under 500 feet of an occupied structure 4/11/14

You have been reported the FAA

A noise abatement policy that allows midnight touch and goes for over an hour?

who's arrogance regarding excessive noise from their facility is exceeded only by their apathy for the matter Embry-Riddle’s Eagles Flight Team

who's school is the single largest source of wide spread noise pollution and annoyance in Volusia County Florida

Touch and goes at 1AM??

Nice noise abatement policy there Masseys

What a joke!



Embry Riddle Aeronautical University



Home of the spoiled little rich kids that play with expensive toys they don't own at Massey Noisepark 7 days a week

N53ER, N58ER, N460ER Too greedy and apathetic to build their own runway facility that they can't seem to exist without while building a new $40+ million telescope facility



N65408

Latest local lowlife seen unnecessarily flying well under 500 feet of an occupied structure, 1/24/14 12:45pm

You have been reported to the FAA

N60603, N957TC

Erik Flight Academy Yet another low life Spruce Creek Fly In based flight school not allowed to do commercial touch and goes and their airport who comes to Massey to do them N6717Y, N1419D

More Air America low lifes based in Daytona Beach that would rather come to Edgewater and disturb residents with their twin engine noise polluter than use their base airport



N116BD

Another Noisy Spruce Creek Fly-In based low life

That's not alowed to do touch and goes at his airport, so he comes to Massey Noise Park to generate noise and annoy residents Thanksgiving Day 2013 - National Holiday

Just another day for the low-life flight schools and Massey Airpark's discriminatory so called "Noise Abatement Policy"

N68165

N79880

N220EP N6030: Another Spruce Creek based airplane not allowed to use their own runway for commercial touch and gos, polluting the air around Edgewater

Stay out of our neighborhood



Embry-Riddel Engages in Discriminatory Noise Abatement Practice at Massey Airpark

N53ER and other ERU operated aircraft are using the same runway most times in order to minimized the noise their excessive touch and go air traffic generates in the area that the otherwise worthless runway is located in E p i c A v i a t i o n

Namely N1318Q

Why don't you learn where the runway is at Massey NoisePark, or beter yet take up a profesison that you can handle and leave the flying to someone who is competant



N957TC, N6185U and others

Isn't New Smyrna Beach airport big enough for you??

Then go to Daytona or Orlando and leave our neighborhoods, and take your foreign students who pay no taxes and do little to support the local economy with you, or better yet....

FOAD

Hey Aerosim Academy in Sanford

and

Air America in Daytona Beach

FOAD Namely N52806, N51654, N5280R and others who use Massey Airpark on Sundays

Whats wrong with the airports at Sanford and Daytona Beach??

Keep your worthless foreigned trained noise polluting industry out of our neighborhoods

N1323X - Unnecessary Low Flying

under 500 ft. over occupied structure

on 12-4-12 2:30pm MC Flyers Get Lost!! Based at Spruce Creek Fly In - where commercial repetitve flight training is banned - and using Massey Airpark on a regular basis

for repetive touch and goes

What's the matter Spruce Creek residents???

Is their money OK but not the noise they generate??

Another example of money grubbing hipocrites

Massey "Airpark"?? - What a Joke Airpark and comercial flight schools engaged in a discriminatory noise abatement policy by never alternating the light wind runway

It's no more of an airpark than Daytona Beach International.

Why not be honest about it and change the name?

150+ flight operations a day from that facility and you can count the number of them by 'airpark' residents on one hand or finger; the rest by Embry Riddle and other commercially run flight schools conducting excessive and unnecessary repetitive touch and goes. Is it any wonder why past residents have moved from there? Take note potential airpark property seekers looking for a nice quiet airpark to move to after retirement. Look elsewhere, this is not it.

LABOR DAY 2012

Just Another Money Grubbing Day

For the greedy flight schools and the Masseys By N2024Y

another out-of-state owned aircraft operated by Epic Aviation using Massey Airpark for commercial purposes

E p i c A v i a t i o n

N957TC, N6185U and others

Isn't New Smyrna Beach airport big enough for you??

Then go to Daytona or Orlando and leave our neighborhoods, and take your foreign students who pay no taxes and do little to support the local economy with you, or better yet....

FOAD

Stay out of our neighborhoods

Sending Local Dollars out of state by

USING OUT OF STATE OWNED and LEASED AIRCRAFT

such as N6269Q, N3265A, N60616, N5275W, N957TC, N6185U

Out of state aircraft owners reaping the monetary benefits while local residents endure the noise and carbon pollution

And NSB residents like N210SC others doing touch and gos at Massey Airpark on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays because your base airport's noise abatement policy doesn't allow it

It's a good thing Massey airpark has a noise abatement policy!

Yeah Right!!!

Embry-Riddle Spoiled Little Rich Kids

Take over Massey Airpark all day Fridays and Saturdays

to play spot landing games polluting Florida Shores and surrounding neighborhoods with their special brand of

excessive noise and carbon and lead pollution.

They are are so grateful to the airpark residents

who pay a yearly runway maintenance fee

so that they can use their runway free of charge 24/7

What a 'gem' the airpark is for Edgewater

Attention potential Florida airpark

and surrounding area property buyers:

The airspace around the airpark-turned-Embry-Riddle training center has been

taken over by aircraft operated by ERU and their affiliate flight schools

which are using Massey Airpark runway on a daily basis for touch and gos

including 6 to 8 hours at a time on weekends

Embry-Riddle now has aircraft based at the airpark

If you're looking for a quiet, peaceful airpark to move to, this is NOT it

You have been warned September 11, 2011

Just another day worshiping the Almighty Dollar

for Massey Airpark's FTE and N79880 Hey Jose

You teach them well, flying well west of the runway on touch and gos and low approaches, and using discriminating noise abatement when the winds are calm. Not to mention allowing your aircraft to do touch and gos in lightning storms. Why don't you mozy on back to Miami or wherever it is you came from.

Epic Aviation

back at Massey Airpark doing touch and gos

Like N62668 on 5-18-2011

Aparantly the New Smyrna Beach airport they're based at

just isn't convienient enough Phoenix East

who got kicked out of Massey Airpark a few years ago

Still likes to sneak a few touch and gos in now and then,

making sure not to use the radio to give themselves away

Like N925MH on 5-16-2011 More Out Of County Aircraft Use Massey Airpark For Flight Training

Like N8353V and N62568 on 5-12-2011

Easter Sunday, April 24, 2011

Just another day of touch and gos starting at 8:45 am for the apathetic Embry-Riddle students, other commercial flight schools and Massey Airpark owners

including N161ER

Florida Shores Residents Are you getting tired of having your weekends and holidays bombarded with excessive commercial flight aircraft school noise? Call the Edgewater City Managers office here

and Massey Airpark office here and scroll down to owner information and demand some consideration.

Earth Day April 23, 2011

The commercial flight schools are doing their part by contributing their fair share of carbon and noise pollution

with yet another marathon day of touch and gos at Massey Airpark For you aircraft owners that seem to be under the illusion that your N number and information is somehow "private" click here and type in your number. This is the free public access FAA Registry database accessible by anyone in the world. If you have a problem with N numbers being legally displayed on this or any of the hundreds of other websites that publish them, contact your congressional representative to get the laws changed. Good luck.

Embry-Riddle:

Get your own field

Noise Makers of the Month A e r i a l M e s s a g e s of Daytona Beach

Who a year ago, played the game of telling the city of New Smyrna Beach they wanted to move their operations to New Smyrna Beach airport because they wanted their hangers. Aparently Massey's hangars were too expensive, and they wanted to get the price down. They even went to the lengths of giving NSB a $2000 deposit in order for New Smyrna Beach to agree to a 1 month trial period of banner towing from their airport which never materialized. Like they were going to move their rediculously loud noise and carbon polluting business from the airpark where anything goes to an area where residents were on record for years with issues of excessive aircraft noise, not to mention dealing with the control tower. Who for years have flown a dicriminatry noise abatement pattern around Massey airpark while doing their manuevers. They have also whined to the VCSO about some residents legally expressing their First Amendment rights. (How about it Matty, you think you'll be a man before your mother? Maybe you should call her next time. How do you and John Boy like being told there is nothing they can do?) It's just natural for them to do that since they believe they have the right to do anything they want, and people who have to listen to their noise over their rooftops all weekend long can just lump it. They operate some of the noisiest aircraft in Volusia county like N711WW, a 39 year old airplane previously involved in a fatal towing incident in 1986. It is equipped with a 450+ HP radial engine, just what one needs for towing 50 lb banners. What do you think they tow their fishing boat to the river with, a Kenworth?

Hey Embry-Riddle:

Why Don't You Just Buy Massey Airpark??

But why would you want to buy the cow when the fool will give you the milk for the price of hangaring a couple of airplanes you dont even own? Embry-Riddle Flight Students

Spoiled Rotten Little Rich Kids based in Daytona

who make noise in our neighborhoods

with expensive toys they don't own and

and no respect or consideration of local residents

most of the day Saturdays,

and now 8 hours an Saturday's not enough,

so most of the day Sunday too



Like N52001, N421ER,

N428ER, N53ER, N58ER

GET YOUR OWN FIELD Air America of Daytona

Like N9395B FOR AN HOUR 2 HOURS AT A TIME

Like on Sunday morning 2-13-11

and N65939 and N53210

who trains mostly ERU students

doing touch and gos and making noise in Edgewater

contributing nothing but noise and carbon pollution

to the local economy



MCFLYERS Like N804VG

and Prop-Jet

who train ERU students and

do touch and gos in Edgewater but not at another airpark

in another city where they are based

contributing nothing but noise and carbon pollution to our local economy

And Epic Aviation like N1963U

Based at New Smyrna Beach airport whose

CONTROL TOWER WAS PUT THERE

FOR YOU A-HOLES

USE IT And same for the owners of the air park

who lie to Edgewater city officials by telling them

there is nothing they can do.

Nothing they can do, like implementing a noise abatement policy that many other runway facilities have to show consideration to the surrounding neighborhoods,

like New Smyrna Beach airport. They have a voluntary ban on touch and gos on Sunday, so aircraft based there come to Massey airpark on Sundays to do theirs,

like N19887, based at New Smyrna airport did on 2-6-2011. It's sad that the Masseys lack the skills and will

to develop their airpark, which was started long before the commercial flight schools, into something desireable and beneficial to the Edgewater community and potential airpark residents and not just the commercial flight schools

Quoting an Edgewater City Council Person:

What a "Gem" The airpark is for Edgewater Labor Day 2010 - another national holiday,

Another day of disrespect and inconsideration

by the flight schools and the Masseys

Just another commercial flight school training day

N53151 - Air America Flight School

N58ER - Embry-Riddle

N881AV - Avion Air Academy Independance Day 2010 It just wouldn't be a national holiday without a few commercial touch and gos to remind us of what freedom is all about :

The freedom to fly whenever and wherever you want

Nothing sacred to flight schools and Massey Airpark* except the almighty dollar and 'their' airspace N25280 - Based at Spruce Creek Fly-In where commercial touch and gos are not allowed (not as much freedom there aparently) The latest PITA Award goes to ...

Embry-Riddle, the Kings of Bad Neighbors and Inconsideration ....

N710ER, N716ER and other ass holes doing spiral downs and hitting the power over peoples' houses no where near the runway around Massey Airpark:



STAY THE HELL OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS,

YOU INCONSIDERATE AND AROGANT BASTARDS



And others like N715ER, like on 6-9-10, and others for the last couple of weeks have made a point to do pre-7am fly bys and touch and gos at Massey airpark before the voluntary noise abatement policy would allow them to do so at New Smyrna Beach airport which is closer. Air America still taking the easy way out by not using a control tower and polluting Edgewater neighborhoods for an hour at a time:

6-23-10 7:40am- N53210 - touch and gos Attention potential banner advertising customers:

The banner towing company from Daytona Beach (A e r i a l M e s s a g e s) that operates out of Massey Airpark chose NOT to save you money by reducing their operating expenses by flying out of New Smyrna Beach airport which is closer to the beaches than Edgewater. They had planned a 1 month trial period at NSB airport back in March 2010 and had even given NSB a $2000 down payment on their expenses (story here, video here). Instead, they chose to continue to operate out of Edgewater in order to keep things simpler for themselves by not having to deal with the control tower at NSB. You would think that in times of a tough economy they would do all they can to keep their costs as low as possible for their customers, not to mention lowering carbon and noise pollution.

They continue their discriminatory noise abatement practice at Massey of flying a right hand instead of a left hand pattern when using runway 18. Here is an example of their level of professionalism while flying their aircraft over neighborhoods near Massey Ranch Airpark. The following sound clip was recorded on July 4, 2010 about 1:00pm between two banner aircraft, N54HY and N711WW. Take note of the language used on the radio.

This text will be replaced by the flash music player. Memorial Day 2010 (just another Monday) Nothing sacred to flight schools and Massey Airpark* except the almighty dollar and 'their' airspace N84249 N6378W - touch and gos N9234X (based at NSB*) - repetitive training; voluntary noise restrictions at NSB - no problem, do it at Massey! N30876 - based at Daytona N132SA (based in Vero Beach) *New Smyrna Beach Municipal airport has a voluntary noise abatement policy which includes no touch and gos between 5pm and 8am, no repetitive flight training on Sundays and national holidays ATTENTION PROSPECTIVE FLORIDA AIRPARK PROPERTY BUYERS:

Are you looking for a nice quiet airpark free of commercial flight schools and their excessive flight operations?

Check out these quiet private access airparks in Florida: Canyon Creek Airpark in Lake City, FL

Ridge Landing in Lake Wales, FL

Tailwinds Airpark in Jupiter, FL

Leeward Air Ranch in Ocala, FL

Sky Manor Estates at Ft. Denaud near Fort Meyers, FL

Sandy Creek Airpark near Panama City, FL ATTENTION PROSPECTIVE FLIGHT SCHOOL STUDENTS:

Interested in a flight school? Check out these schools in more progressive areas of Florida:



424 Aviation

ATA Flight School

A1 Aero Flight Services

AeronautX

Airborne Systems

American Flying Academy

Atlas Aviation

Bartow Flying Service

Bay Air Flying Service

Beaver Aviation

CAMS Flight

Clearwater Aviation

Sunquest Aviation In an attempt to attract commercial flight schools to these neighborhoods, since mid 2006 the amount of flight operations at Massey Ranch Airpark have steadily increased to a point where there are now upwards of between 100 and 300+ flight operations per day, 90% of which are due to touch and gos, take offs, landings and fly bys by commercial flight school aircraft not based at this airpark. This activity adversely affects the quality of life and property values in the surrounding neighborhoods by creating safety concerns and noise pollution problems that did not exist to this extent before this time. Several attempts by several nearby residents to request reasonable restrictions on the excessive touch and gos around these neighborhoods were made in good faith to Massey Airpark owners and Edgewater city officials and have proven to be fruitless. Airpark management has told Edgewater city officials that there is nothing they can do. Since they obviously don't want to discourage commercial flight schools from coming to these neighborhoods, it's seemingly unthinkable for them to consider any type of good neighbor policy that might limit the excessive touch gos and being done by these commercial flight schools on a daily basis. Consequently there is no noise abatement policy or any other type of good neighbor policy, which many other airports have, at this airpark. Edgewater residents: FYI: The city of Edgewater supports Massey Air Park on the city's web site in an effort to draw attention to Edgewater's economic development. Look at page 5 of this pdf document on the city's web site. If the document is no longer available there click here. There are even web addresses given for the Airpark Aviation business and Massey Properties. Proponents of flight schools like to talk about their great economic benefit. Ask yourself this: How does the fact that 90% of the flight operations at the airpark are being done by commercial flight schools not based in Edgewater benefit Edgewater residents and taxpayers? Where is the economic benefit to Edgewater? Better yet, ask this of the Edgewater city manager.

Several Embry-Riddle operated aircraft intrude on the residents of these neighborhoods most of the day on Saturdays and many other times during the week in order to practice and engage in spot landing competition at Massey Airpark. It's nice to know that Edgewater and county residents can have their quality of life reduced in order for students at a school 30 miles away to participate in extra curricular activities. If Embry-Riddle needs an uncontrolled airfield that bad - and they should have thought of that when they started their club - then they should do what Volusia County should have made them do 45 years ago -

BUILD THEIR OWN FIELD! - Flight Training Express -

You are seriously arogant and irresponsible - what kind of flight school operator lets their aircraft out in a lightning storm on May 17, 2010 for not 1 but no less than 4 times around the pattern?

If you want to put yourselves in jeopardy do it without putting residents under you at risk!

GET OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Take your midnight pattern work and take a hike!

Go back to Daytona or Miami or wherever you came from The East Central/South Florida area is the largest area in the world for flight training, according to the FAA. There are more commercial flight schools in this area than anywhere else in the world. They are able to use any public access airport runway in Florida for free. Since about late 2005 to mid 2006, the amount of flight operations at the privately owned, uncontrolled, single runway Massey Airpark (X50) has increased dramatically. Up until about mid to late 2006 there were aproximately 30-50 flight operations per day, as reported on AirNav's website. Since mid 2006, the amount of flight operations at this airpark have steadily increased to a point where there are now approximately between 100 and 300+ flight operations per day, 90% of which are due to touch and gos, landings and fly bys by commercial flight school aircraft not based at this airport. These flight schools significantly reduce the quality of life and property values in the surrounding neighborhoods by creating safety concerns and noise pollution problems that did not exist to this extent before this time. There have been days when there have been airplanes circling the skies around this airpark at a rate of more than 1 a minute for the better part of a 10-12 hour day. Are you looking for a nice quiet neighborhood in the Central Florida area free from the intrusion of commercial flight school activity that lowers the quality of life? If you're Are you looking for a community with a runway that is not mainly a practice field for commercial flight training aircraft doing touch and goes, take offs, landings and fly bys during any hours of the day or night? Are you looking for a community where you're not annoyed many days at 7-8 am by commercial flight school touch and goes and fly overs? Past PITA Awards ...

Air America Flight Center of Daytona Beach whose N9395B has been at Massey almost every day for the last couple of weeks. This is the same airplane whose pilot on Aug. 26, 2009 at 3PM announced he was using runway 18 while actually using runway 36 for no less than 5 touch and gos. Another pilot attempting to land at Massey from the East had to tell him which runway he was using after the other pilot landed 'straight in' on runway 18. Recently...

Prop-Jet USA, based at Spruce Creek Fly-In (where commercial touch and goes are not allowed) whose twin engine N8390K, N545WR and N25280 has been at Massey almost every day for the last several weeks for sometimes an hour+ at a time doing touch and goes and turning low and short over peoples homes on take off and landing. They based themselves at an airport that doesn't allow commercial touch and goes and then go into other neighborhoods in order to generate income. Nice! Get lost Prop-Jet. You started in 2007, we were here long before that. Click here for an example of how Embry-Riddle has made this airpark a base for competition training from about March thru October of 2009 and from March 2010 thru ? COMMERCIAL FLIGHT SCHOOLS & STUDENTS

MAKE UP 90+% OF THE FLIGHT OPERATIONS AT MASSEY RANCH AIRPARK

CHARGE $57,000+ PER STUDENT & PAY NO LANDING FEES

SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE PROPERTY VALUES AND QUALITY OF LIFE

ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN OPERATING REQUIREMENTS

ARE THE LARGEST SOURCE OF NOISE POLLUTION IN EAST CENTRAL FL

KEEP THE OIL COMPANIES RICH BY BURNING LOTS OF GAS

CONTRIBUTE RELATIVELY LITTLE TO THE LOCAL ECONOMY

FLY NEEDLESSLY OVER RESIDENTIAL AREAS

ARE VIRTUALLY UNREGULATED

SHOULD GET THEIR OWN RUNWAY!! *The company based in Daytona Beach that does banner towing at Massey Airpark and Massey Airpark are using a discriminatory noise abatement practice to minimize noise on the East side of the runway and increasing noise on the West side of the runway. N711WW, N54HY and others use a left hand pattern when using runway 36 (taking off to the North) but use an unnecessary and potentially dangerous right hand pattern when using runway 18 (taking off to the south). Not only is this discriminating against the neighborhoods to the West, but also creates an unnecessary and potentially dangerous situation while other aircraft are simultaneously in the normally accepted left hand pattern while using the same runway. There can potentially be two aircraft lining up on the same runway at the same time from opposite sides of the runway. At a recent New Smyrna Beach city council meeting while discussing the possibility of a 30 day trial for Aerial Messages to use the city's airport, owner Colin Remy stated that while he was owner of the company they never had a safety related issue. Aparently Mr. Remy feels that since they never had a physical accident during their operations at Massey, there are no safety related issues with the way they have conducted business at Massey. Common sense would suggest that anytime two or more aircraft are approaching the same runway at an uncontrolled airport from different directions at the same time there is an unnecessary increased risk.

Here's what they said they were planning to do in March of 2010:

The (New Smyrna Beach) commission granted a banner-towing flight business a 30-day trial period to test the viability of permanently operating out of the NSB Airport. “It’s much closer to the beach than our present facility in Edgewater,” said business owner Remy Colin. “It is also closer to beaches and the speedway to the north.”

As of June 12, 2010 they are still operating out of Massey Airpark. One big stunt to get a better deal from Massey, which aparently worked.

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