Posts Tagged ‘Torrance Airport’

PILOT ALERT   Lexus dealer planning to build a parking lot in the RPZ The Lexus dealer on Crenshaw Blvd is requesting permission to build a parking lot with light standards within the RPZ. The Airport Commission will hear the City’s recommendation to approve this development on Thursday 2/5 at 7 PM in the City…

Many of the helicopter operators, like the fixed-wing operators, have objected to the proposed changes because of serious safety concerns about mixing the two types of traffic and the great difficulty of seeing and avoiding helicopters in the absence of sufficient geographic and/or altitude separation.

This week, the Torrance City Council directed that helicopters in-bound and out-bound from the airport climb to or descend from 1400 AGL, through the fixed-wing traffic patterns (at 1000 AGL) when landing at the airport (see articles from the Daily Breeze).  Torrance helicopter operators had previously agreed to fly at 600 AGL within the class D airspace to avoid the faster fixed wing traffic, but a few residents have complained about the helicopters flying over their houses and the City Council blindly blundered into the realm of air traffic control.  Their Airport Commission unanimously recommended against this move.  For a map of the helicopter routes, check http://www.taainfo.org.  (See update at the end of this article)