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Mayor Sheila Young • • July 15, 2004 Page 8 of 9 straight into either 27R or 27L from many miles out, as if he were following an ILS. We have compared the Tower counts for IFR and VFR arrivals for July 1 -8, 2004, with flight tracks from the Airport's noise monitoring system, and believe that the following data collected by the Tower provides a reasonable estimate for the information requested: • IFR arrivals on North Field for an average summer day (24 hrs) = 56 IFR arrivals on North Field for an average summer night (10 p.m. — 6 a.m.) = 9 13) As you know, relocation of the ILS from 27R to 27L is a condition of the November 2000 Settlement Agreement between the City of San Leandro and the City of Oakland (Section 8). If the ILS is not relocated and instead a second ILS is added to the North Field, further discussions will be required between the City and the Port regarding the implications this action will have on the terms of the Settlement Agreement. Answer: The Port is aware of each of its settlement agreement obligations. The Port will not make any decisions regarding the ILS issues without engaging the City of San Leandro. 14) Please explain the benefits of having two instrument landing systems at the North Field for San Leandro. Answer: Airports and the FAA always like to have duplicate systems as back up in case something happens to one of them. This may be of Tess benefit to San Leandro, but it would help maintain consistent flight procedures that the neighbors are accustomed to seeing. Secondly, having two ILS's gives the Airport and FAA more flexibility in directing traffic and establishing noise abatement procedures since either runway would be able to accommodate instrument traffic equally. For example, it would allow the Airport to use 27L during the day for training flights, while instrument flights use 27R, and then direct instrument flights (and all flights when traffic allows) to 27L during night (and possibly evening) hours when activity subsides. Third, as mentioned above in Number 11, this would allow touch and go operations to remain over non - residential areas while accommodating instrument arrivals on 27R. During May 2004, there were 2,659 touch and go arrivals to North Field, which averages out to 86 touch and go arrivals /day. There would be a noticeable difference in the number of flights over San Leandro neighborhoods if the training activity were shifted to 27R. The FAA prefers to separate slow moving, touch and go traffic by small aircraft from instrument arrivals by other aircraft.