Updates for Southwest Florida Regional Airport

The Estero Council of Community Leaders (ECCL) is pleased to announce WebTrak Flight Tracking System

March 2013 - After over three years of working with the FAA and the airport we finally have an operational aircraft flight tracking information system. The system is called WebTrak. The flight tracking system provides near real-time and historical aircraft flight track information within the immediate area of both Southwest Florida International and Page Field.

You will be able to go to the site on your computer and view flights as they pass over your location. (Per federal regulations, some aircraft flight data is excluded. This includes operations by law enforcement and military aircraft.) Aircraft information, including the aircraft model, the origin/destination airports, and flight number, is included whenever possible.

One of the reasons we have been working to get this system was to enable the residents of Estero to monitor flights that they thought were too low (flights over Estero are supposed to be no lower than 4,000 feet) and with this system you will be able to report any violation to the airport with exact data about the flight.

The link below will take you directly to the instructions page for the WebTrak flight tracking system where you can learn how to use the system. At the bottom of that page you will find the link to the flight tracker.

http://www.flylcpa.com/webtrak

The Estero Council of Community Leaders is trying to get someone from the airport to give a demonstration of this new system at an upcoming ECCL meeting. We will let you know when we have arranged this presentation. We want to thank all the people who served on the Aircraft Noise Committee. It’s because of their efforts that the fight tracker system is finally a reality.

South Lee County Airplane Noise Committee

In October 2008 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) changed the routes and landing patterns for all flights coming from the northeastern United States so that they would for the first time come south of the Southwest Florida International Airport over Estero to land from the west into the prevailing winds.

SHFTY to Tynee Transition [red line] (click for full pdf)
The graphic above shows the present route for all flights from the northeast including the approach to the airport while the graphic on the right shows the “Estero Plan” route that would amend the present approach pattern by diverting the planes north of the Fort Myers metro area into the airport.

The new route established by the FAA in 2008 is in red.

The route depicted in the following graphic will be implemented by the FAA in the near future as part of the change for the radar controlled approach system that has been used for decades to a new Global Information System (GIS) approach system. (Click for details)