By all accounts, they’re expecting a full-sized mob at the FAA public comment hearing in Essington tomorrow. The blogger part of me wishes I could be there, but another part of me is very ambivalent about the process. It’s almost impossible to discern the presence of factual information.

What is certain is that the FAA has a terrible communications strategy. What do the risk management people say? Risk = hazard + outrage. They’re about to wake up and smell the outrage.

The local papers are covering the political jockeying over the FAA situation. But I’m terribly disappointed that they’ve let us down by failing to inform the public about what’s really going on. How many planes are we really talking about? Where? How much noise are we really talking about? As long as this issue has been going on, why can’t why have a little gumshoe reporting?

I apologize to anybody who might come here looking for a play-by-play of the event on Wednesday. If it’s all redeeming, I’m going to spend the whole day tomorrow fulfilling an important civic duty.