I wish I was joking, check out the controversy at Fullerton:
Aero-News
From the article:
As Aero-News reported, two persons onboard a Cessna 182 died when their plane struck the tower as they turned base leg to Runway 6 on December 19, 2004.
"The tower is an obstruction to aerial navigation," Propst told the Whittier Daily News. "In the past two years it has killed two people, and in the 1970s it killed one person. It is just in a terrible place to put something that will be 680 feet high."
KFI maintains the matter is all about improving radio reception -- an important consideration for a radio station now heard only by residents in Los Angeles and Orange County with a 204-ft transmitter, but that once reached as many as 18 million listeners with the higher antenna. The station says it has compromised, by proposing to replace the former 760-foot tower with one some 80 feet shorter.
... well at least they're willing to compromise. I'll do the same by setting 1 fewer preset on my AM dial for KFI. :)
Can you imagine if the cheese factory on rwy25-base decided to put up a 700-foot high tower? Sure, we'd all see and avoid it... but once in awhile, someone is going to need that air on their turn to base, and won't look in time.
Pay attention, even in the traffic pattern. Your life, and an AM radio station's coverage area -- may depend on it.
