IN the VIDEO:
The Black contour is from the 2004 study.
The Yellow contour is from the 2015 study.
Notice that the yellow DNL 65 stretches north more than the 2004 study. In fact, it stretches to the 2004 60DNL contour line.

This is important because mathematically this is impossible if the 2004 model is to be believed.

Flights have have seriously dropped off from 2004 levels; apx 178,000 in 2004 vs apx 112,000 in 2013.

Another way to say this is the airport isn’t as busy as it was in 2004. If there are fewer planes taking off, then the DNL boundary should be less.

My conclusion is the model is a joke.

I’m against a noise increase at the airport, but let’s not paddle up the wrong creek trying to stop it. There’s no need to find the secret hidden clue… it’s not hidden… it’s in your face… they don’t care at all because they know they are safe at election time. If we want to win this, we must force this issue on the candidates well before the November election… local media won’t touch it.

This is about money. For example, the capacity of the airport has been expanded while flight operations has fallen by 40% over the last 10-12 years… it’s just a big money grubbing government jobs program out there. If they don’t get a fighter base here they’ll apply for grant money to reduce the size of the airport though deconstruction for 20 years… then they’ll expand it again for 20 years and so on and so on. It all just money for public works contracts for favored political donors… need has nothing to do with it.

(Strongly suggest a tripod for anyone posting anything on YouTube.)

EDITOR NOTE–Henry, we had trouble understanding the video. Might want to try the explanation again as it
was confusing. Anyone else?

Bieter’s power has always resided in boring election issues and low voter turnout. (Legacy media traditionally fails Boise by not raising election issue flags… Thank You Guardian!)

Where to park the airplanes: All the MONEY will still be in the Boise valley area even if all the NOISE is at MHAFB.

Motives: This is about Bieter wanting to be hands on that new money and the USAF wanting their fighter jocks living very near the base rather than commuting to Boise as they do now. (Kinda like St. Lukes building near doctor’s homes.) USAF also trains thousands of foreign pilots… thus the hospitality of metropolitan Boise greatly exceeds MHAFB. Both Bieter and USAF are completely willing to destroy the value of thousands of homes and many millions of our net-worth to get their way.

Everyone be happy idea: Base a quite aircraft in Boise. Tankers, drones, transports, etc. Keep the flame-throwing jet noise at MHAFB and Fallon NAS.

I was not at the meeting, but I lived very near the airport for years. We sat on our back patio and watched the fire tankers lumber over our house taking off. They seemed so low and slow, and we could see the pilot’s faces and we would exchange waves as they took their liquid cargo to a drop.

We loved the C130’s, and A10s, but the fast movers were a real treat. Yes, they are noisy, but it is the sound of freedom, and we enjoyed it everyday.

Growing up in the oil patch in the midwest I was taught that the smell of oil was the smell of money. The same goes for being in cattle country. And fighter jets are simply the audio of freedom amplified.

Instead of protesting, try smiling and saluting them when they fly over. Let’s make them welcome.