Let's get this stupid idea stopped before it picks up any more steam. What stupid idea? Well ... read this story. Someone thinks it might be a good idea to build a new football stadium for the Atlanta Falcons on the site of the now-closed Doraville General Motors Assembly Plant. If you live in Atlanta you might know that this assembly plant is very close to Georgia's 2nd busiest airport, Dekalb-Peachtree (PDK). When I'm landing on runway 20L I'm looking right down on the roof of this assembly plant out my left window --- and I'm not all that high either. Let's call it around 400 to 500 feet.

Are the pilots and businesses that use PDK aware of what's being discussed here? They're talking about building a stadium and various mixed-use developments right in the approach path to PDK's busiest runway. You know what happens next, don't you? Well ... the FAA should step in and prohibit a project like this right off the bat ... but you can't count on that ... so what happens next is that people start screaming for the closure of PDK. After all, you can't have all of this people flying around in their airplanes over a crowded stadium, can you? Golly! They might be terrorists or something? At the very least you will have pressure to close PDK ... or at least the runways that have approach or departure paths over the stadium.

The pilots, staff and business of PDK had better get busy killing this idea right about now. There are many good locations for a new stadium in the Atlanta area ... this isn't one of them.

OK .. now you wealth envy folks can start screaming. After all, anyone with an airplane is rich, right? You don't want to hear that the average value of a privately owned piston aircraft is less than the cost of a bass rig, do you. No. Didn't think so.