1. Enabling aircraft to gain a higher altitude on departures over residential areas to the west by extending Runway 10R/28L.
Result: To gain a higher altitude on departures requires extra power for the steep climb which creates excessive noise and places the aircraft over the residential areas to the north and south of the airport. The noise impact foot print increases with altitude affecting even more people.

2. Publishing in pilot guides and facility directories that easterly departures are preferred when wind and weather permits. This transfers some air traffic from populated areas to less populated areas east of the airport.
Result: Take-off direction is normally dictated by wind direction.

3. Encouraging westerly departures to execute a right turn after take-off, routing traffic over Monterey Bay rather than the Peninsula.
Result: Aircraft routinely make early right turns over residential areas. Monterey Peninsula Airport does not enforce the flight paths. The increased altitude causes an increase of excessive noise to the north and south.

4. Establishing a noise abatement officer position within the Department of Operation. This position is responsible for coordinating implementation of the airport's noise control program with airlines, general aviation aircraft operators, and FAA air traffic control tower.
Result: Operations officer's noise mitigation attempts have been ineffective.

5. Maintaining a 24-hour noise abatement phone number. Follow-up is made with aircraft operators for all departures from the procedures.
Result: Airport officials claim to "track" errant aircraft. Citizens are expected to provide the aircraft tail number. The 24-hour noise abatement phone number is generally a voice mail box. Airport officials go so far as to deflect complaints to the sewage department claiming that a sewage lift station which location is unknown to airport officials is making aircraft noise.

6. Monterey Airport, in conjunction with the FAA Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990, pursued and expedited airline conversion to quieter aircraft. Examples are the Airbus 319 and Boeing 757 operated by United Airlines, which are significantly quieter than the aircraft each replaced.
Result: The Monterey Peninsula Airport had little to do with the airlines converting to quieter stage III aircraft.

7. All business jets built since the early 1980's are the quieter stage III aircraft. As older aircraft are replaced, the business jet fleet is getting quieter.
Result: This has nothing to do with the loud stage II business and corporate jets flying into Monterey. Banned in Europe, these jets still fly in the United States and their numbers are expected to increase at the Monterey Peninsula Airport. Business/corporate jets are exempt from the stage III requirements due to an FAA 75,000 pound exemption. Stage II jets will be flying for a long time.

8. MRY's residential aid program, which effects the homes closest to the airport, has provided soundproofing for 250 homes.
Result: Monterey Peninsula Airport directs traffic over the uninsulated homes and away from the insulated homes. The high altitude take-off procedure affects residential areas far from the insulated homes.

9. There are currently seven scheduled commercial departures prior to 7:00am and one scheduled arrival after 11:00pm. Each of these eight operations required prior approval by the Monterey Peninsula Airport District Board of Directors.
Result: Late night and early morning noise which the Monterey Peninsula Airport Board of Directors allows but can correct now. Flight operations often start before 5:00am and continue past midnight.

10. Airline ground operations utilize ground power units to service commercial aircraft. These services are generally completed within an hour of the final flight of the day and resume one hour prior to the first flight in the morning.
Result: Airline ground crews do not routinely use ground power. Monterey Peninsula Airport officials do not require the use of ground power units. Running jets and apu's on the ground wastes fuel and is a contributor to air pollution.

11. Private or general aviation pilots, who do not voluntarily comply with the curfew, are contacted by airport operations staff to seek their future cooperation. Non-compliance in most cases involves transient rather than local aircraft.
Result: Ineffective. There is only one way to get cooperation from pilots, impose penalties.

12. In the mid-eighties RW 06-24 was closed limiting air traffic to east/west operations and away from the neighbors north of the airport.
Result: A worse situation was built in the form of the Navy Flying Club runway which use should be discontinued due to noise and safety problems. RW 06-24 was closed because an airplane crashed into a house in Del Rey Oaks, not to direct operations away from their "neighbors north of the airport."