Mon, Sep 27, 2004
Airport team responds quickly, efficiently to FAA
inspection results
The FAA inspected the
Monterey Peninsula Airport on Friday and gave them an "A." The FAA
sent a runway safety action team to the airport to check on
progress after another FAA safety official came down hard on the
facility for having faded runway and taxiway markings. The original
inspection took place after pilots complained about the condition
of the markings.
The airport is now planning to repaint all the markings under a
maintenance project that will begin work next week, funded by a
$400,000 federal grant. The project would have started earlier, but
delays in securing the money from the FAA moved the start date up a
it, according to airport general manager Tom Greer. "We were
already planning to do it," he told the Monterey Herald.
The runway safety team, composed of seven inspectors, toured the
field and tower on Friday, and made several recommendations,
including improvement of directional signs and ground markings that
help keep pilots from taking their airplanes where they should not
go.
"I think they are doing a very commendable job," said Col. Dave
Kurner, USMC-Ret., the FAA's regional runway safety program
manager. "They respond rapidly and appear to have excellent
communication." The inspection took five hours, and was the first
time the team had visited Monterey. FAA spokesman Donn Walker
said that the inspection was routine and not because of any
reported problems. "It's pretty standard stuff visiting airports,"
said Walker.
In fact, only two runway incursions took place at the Monterey
Airport in four years, and both of them occurred in 2000. "This
airport has a very good record," Walker said.
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