{"id":28495,"date":"2024-04-29T15:52:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=28495"},"modified":"2024-04-29T15:52:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:52:32","slug":"sling-pilot-academy-and-city-of-torrance-settle-business-license-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/california\/sling-pilot-academy-and-city-of-torrance-settle-business-license-dispute\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Sling Pilot Academy and City of Torrance Settle Business License Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sling Pilot Academy, a flight training institution located\nin Torrance, CA, and the City of Torrance have settled a dispute in State Court\nover Sling\u2019s business license. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2023 Sling received a letter from the City of\nTorrance saying that Sling\u2019s business license would not be renewed in 2024 due\nto a never-enforced 1977 resolution limiting the number of flight schools at\nTorrance Airport. The resolution had been made, but never enacted as an\nOrdinance, by a 1977 City Council responding to complaints from residents about\nnoise from airplanes flying over their homes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Facing irreparable harm, Sling filed a complaint in\nCalifornia State Court. On December 21st, 2023 Judge Curtis Kin of the Superior\nCourt of the State of California issued a Temporary Restraining Order against\nthe City of Torrance, preventing them from blocking the issuance of Sling\u2019s\n2024 business license. The day before, the City of Torrance City Council voted\nto enact an Ordinance and Urgency Ordinance limiting the number of flight\nschools at Torrance Airport to 6 flight schools. As in 1977, the City Council\nwas responding to complaints from residents about noise from airplanes flying\nover their homes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 12th, 2024, Judge Kin again sided with Sling\u2019s attorneys and issued a Preliminary Injunction against the City of Torrance restraining and enjoining them from taking any action to block the issuance of Sling\u2019s 2024 business license on the grounds that there can only be 6 flight schools at the airport. This injunction protected against the irreparable harm that would have come to Sling\u2019s 90+ employees and 200+ students had Sling\u2019s business license been cancelled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After some movement regarding businesses registered as\nflight schools at the Torrance Airport it was determined that Sling fell\n\u201cwithin the 6\u201d (flight school limitation), and the City of Torrance reached out\nto Sling to settle the dispute and dismiss the case in California State Court\nas well as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Part 16 Complaint that\nSling had filed with the FAA. On April 12th, 2024, Sling and the City of\nTorrance signed a Settlement Agreement and filed for dismissal of both complaints.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sling Pilot Academy remains committed to working with the\nCity of Torrance and the residents surrounding the airport. Sling believes in\nits mission to offer flight training to the residents of the local region and\nto uplift their lives by enabling the path to the life-changing career of an\nairline pilot. The severe pilot shortage has created a desperate need for\npilots in this segment of our Critical Infrastructure. Flight Training is\nspecifically called out as part of our Critical Infrastructure and Sling has in\nthe past been a recipient of a $500,000 Federal Grant designed to create pilots\nfor the aviation workforce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling will continue to engage with local residents to better\nunderstand the annoyance of airplane noise. Sling will continue to work on\nvoluntary procedures to mitigate this problem and Sling will continue to work\non the \u201cWhisper Sling\u201d project to make its quiet airplanes even quieter and\nmore pleasing to the human ear. Sling Pilot Academy intends to become the\nworld\u2019s quietest flight school with these technical advancements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sling Pilot Academy, a flight training institution located in Torrance, CA, and the City of Torrance have settled a dispute in State Court over Sling\u2019s business license. In October 2023 Sling received a letter from the City of Torrance saying that Sling\u2019s business license would not be renewed in 2024 due to a never-enforced 1977 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28498,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495\/revisions\/28498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}