About SDAAC
The San Diego Area Aviation Council (SDAAC) is an association composed of local airport pilot, community and airport user groups from each of the San Diego area public airports. These airports include McClellan-Palomar, French Valley, Borrego Valley, Fallbrook, Agua Caliente, Jacumba, Ocotillo, Montgomery Field, Oceanside, Ramona, Brown and Gillespie Fields.
The purpose of the SDAAC is to promote safe and considerate operation of general aviation aircraft, community outreach, responsible planning, effective communication with local governing agencies, and the following of FAA Federal Grant Assurance Obligations for our airports. Significantly, neither the SDAAC, nor any of its member organizations are not for profit enterprises. Each organization is staffed entirely by volunteers whose sole goal is to promote safety and the quality of life in and around general aviation airports. A primary focus of the SDAAC and its member organizations is the prevention of community discord by avoiding irresponsible residential encroachment into areas heavily influenced by the operations of existing public airports. As the value of San Diego real estate continues to rise to historic levels, competition among developers for available buildable land has intensified to the extent that developers and their organizations have planned and engaged in campaigns to target open area safety zones near existing public airports, and in some circumstances, to promote the closure of active public federally-funded airports in the name of achieving the “highest and best use” of land occupied by airports. These well financed campaigns, with which we can not compete, include engaging in private lobbying efforts with local government officials, stacking public hearings with attorneys and public relations consultants and resisting efforts for more than minimal discloses to purchasers of the extent of nearby airport operations. The SDAAC respectfully suggests that public use airports, like parks, libraries, wild life preserves, public beaches and the like by their nature do not represent the highest and best economic use of the land they occupy yet deserve vigilant regulatory protection for their intrinsic values and for the value they represent to the community as a whole.
In 2005 SDAAC was made aware of a seemingly widespread and systematic destruction of our light general aviation infrastructure throughout the county. This reduction of light-GA services is occurring at an alarming rate and runs counter to the Federal Grant Assurances laws, while at the same time there continues to be a large and growing demand for light-GA services. However these services are being reduced by a significant ratio and at a high velocity. These decisions are being are being made with little or no opportunity for meaningful public input.
If you have a comment or concern about something threatening aviation and/or your airport, please feel free to contact the SDAAC at the email address shown above in the page header.
"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error"
--Robert H. Jackson, Supreme Court Justice (1892-1954)
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance"
--Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the United States (1743-1826)
SDAAC Airports Links
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Created on 02/04/2003 10:24 AM by install
Updated on 02/25/2007 03:04 PM by admin
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