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- ~} ~'~ a Mr. Mehler said earlier information was incorrect and he cited a letter dated June 30, 19$2, in which new calculations were submitted. by Mr. Matthews. He noted 'that he.had referred.~to a company out of Wilmington, N.C. and Columbia, S.C. which primarily deals only with general aviation airports and the company said there - would be 1.3 vehicles per landing and takeoff. Mr. Mehler noted that despite the..:.: discrepancy in the projected figures, Buck Mountian, is projecting in phase one, 156 vehicles per day; phase 2, 312 vehicles per day; and phase three 487 vehicles per day; he said that was less than a 10% increase in vehicular traffic. Ne said that no one really knows how many flights will come out of this airport nor how many vehicles will be generated by the airport. Mr. Kizer: Asked if flights at Midway would he restricted; explaining to Mr. Mehler, restrict operations of aircraft... And Mr. Kizer wondered, why the - developers had chosen the "figure of 500 for HWA which is a restricted airport; for example, if you are using a true range and you use the range of about 1700 which occurs at one airport; if you use the maximum range one would find that you could generate about 2200 trips per day." Mr. Kizer contends that this would increase by about 50% the highway traffic. Mr. Mehler:. Replied that he had deferred to Mr. Bruce Matthews' expertise in this field. He felt that the 500 figure was a conservative one but a reasot~~ble one; he added that the transient air traffic would not increase "five fold:" Mr. Kizer: Asked if Mr. Mehler agreed that the figure cited was a conservative one: Mr. Mehler: Cited the Raleigh/durham Airport experience and said the figures cited far Midway are "so high, in fact, that•they are almost ridiculous." But, he continued, they are Mr. Matthews'.and he is the best source around. "The reason that 1 think they are ridiculous is that at the maximum development, the number of flights coming into this airpart...projected at that many per vehicle, would have a very high...higher than any other of its size. in this area." Mr. Kizer: Asked Mr. Mehler if he had recalculated the NEF contours based on the new, larger "amounts of operation." Mr. Mehler responded that those new NEFs were based on the higher numbers of operations. Commissioner Gustaveson: Asked if Mr. Mehler could give the examples of. private airports he had used a.s models while working on Midway, which were locate+~ ~.on the Eastern Seaboard, the Midwest or North Carolina. i I I