I'm here tonight to ask for your help to get pilots to follow regulations.

Why am I doing this project?

You could say it's my community volunteer work. Although sometimes frustrating, it has always been fun.

Now, a little about myself: I'm an Electronic Engineer, retired from Federal Civil Service. I worked in Test and Evaluation for 26 years.

I also spent six years in the US Navy's Submarine Service on nuclear Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines. I then went on to retire from the United States Naval Reserves.

I moved to Camarillo 29 years ago and have been a citizen of Camarillo since then.

Back in the 1973, I bought a home over on Granada St. in Old Camarillo. This was before there was a Camarillo Airport.

Shortly after the Camarillo airport opened up I wrote a letter-to-the-editor to the "Camarillo Daily News" complaining about the low flying airplanes. In my letter I listed the number of airplanes and their altitudes. I explained that I had used a triangulation method to determine the altitude of each airplane. The letter got published.

A week later there was a newspaper article with a picture of two pilots looking up. The gist of the of the newspaper article was that the pilots didn't see any low flying airplanes.

The article didn't say there weren't any low flying planes, just that the pilots didn't see any low flying airplanes.

Nothing has changed in 25 years.

Three years ago I was going to move back to Granada Street. In preparation for moving into my rental, I spent two Saturday afternoons putting in a sprinkler system.

Obviously I knew the house was in the flight path to the airport.

But  what I didn't know was that there were a lot of pilots who thought that 200 feet above ground was the preferred altitude to be at for the last four miles of their approach.

When an airport is opened, all homeowners within 5 miles of the airport lose their 1000-ft airplane minimum altitude umbrella. Now all they have is a 3-degree glide slope.

There is a problem with low flying airplanes. There's no effective monitoring of the airplane' s altitude to see if they are at or above this 3-degree glide.

To help solve this low flying airplane problem, I've built a Low Flying Aircraft Monitoring System. And I have created a web site titled  "An Attitude About Altitude."

This web site has been on line for the last 10 days. This site has not been advertised to the general public. I'm giving the airport community a two-week private screening to see if they want to change anything.

I would like to make tonight's meeting the beginning of a new dialog between the airport and its neighbors.

You are the people who make the decisions. You decide to what degree the department of airports will be involved with solving this problem of low flying airplanes.

Since this is not a technical meeting, I will very briefly describe the Attitude About Altitude web site. So you can decide just how much information you want.

Please look at the paper titled "The Attitude About Altitude Home Page.

This is a copy of the web site's main page. It has hyper-links. These hyper-links will bring you to other web pages that cover the subject in greater detail. This web site is really the best way to review this Low Flying Aircraft Monitoring System project.

The other sheet is the web site's Frequently Ask Questions (FAQ's). If you read just one page, this is the one to read. It's about misconceptions many citizens have about who are responsible for these low flying airplanes.

I've also included a hard copy of a presentation that I prepared for the last December Airport Authority meeting. The web site, an Attitude About Altitude, has superceding this hard copy report.