{"areas":[{"slug":"noise-baseline","title":"Honest community-noise baseline & all-sources reporting","blurb":"An honest community-noise baseline at KBDU/KBJC — per-pass dBA and time-of-day weighting — paired with an all-sources reporting tool (equal protection: report any noise source, not just aircraft) whose complaints are released by location and correlated to flight tracks, so pilots can see and avoid what generates complaints.","status":"open","funding_target_usd":60000},{"slug":"climate-per-hour","title":"CO₂ per flight-hour & the social cost of carbon","blurb":"Fuel-burn inventory by operation type (trainer, tow, GA), CO₂ per instructional hour and per mile, monetized at the social cost of carbon (~$0.19/kg) — the baseline every substitution scenario is measured against.","status":"open","funding_target_usd":40000},{"slug":"low-noise-trainers","title":"Electric & low-noise trainer transition","blurb":"Measured dBA, lead, and CO₂ deltas and fleet economics for replacing piston trainers with the Velis Electro (electric, silent, lead-free) and Rotax/mogas LSAs (~9 dB quieter, unleaded); adoption curve and per-hour operating savings.","status":"open","funding_target_usd":75000},{"slug":"glider-launch","title":"Quieter glider launch & tow alternatives","blurb":"A light sport tow plane (e.g. the EuroFOX) vs the 235-hp Pawnee, Sinus self-launch motorgliders on practice tows, and ground-winch launch — including the winch’s unusual economics (a fixed rig whose ROI improves with scale); per-launch cost and noise/count reductions.","status":"open","funding_target_usd":55000},{"slug":"unleaded-transition","title":"Field-by-field unleaded avgas (Swift 94UL)","blurb":"Logistics, fuel infrastructure, and the lead-elimination case for moving Front Range fields to unleaded avgas one field at a time — same airframe, same noise, no lead.","status":"open","funding_target_usd":35000},{"slug":"unleaded-adoption-tracker","title":"Unleaded avgas adoption tracker (Front Range)","blurb":"A field-by-field tracker of the 100LL→unleaded transition across Front Range airports: which fields offer Swift UL94/94UL, when infrastructure (tanks, pumps) goes in, and how adoption grows. KBDU’s June 2026 unleaded fuel system is the first tracked milestone — a live scoreboard of unleaded adoption, field by field.","status":"open","funding_target_usd":30000},{"slug":"abatement-timing","title":"Noise-abatement procedures, timing & operational diversion","blurb":"VNAP profiles (~−6 dB/pass), rescheduling training out of the high-penalty evening/night window (a 3–10× time-of-day dose penalty), and diverting or displacing practice flights (backcountry strips, Platte Valley 18V, accepted simulator hours).","status":"open","funding_target_usd":45000},{"slug":"mitigation-roi","title":"Mitigation ROI, monetization & hedonic value","blurb":"Open, validated methodology for ranking mitigation levers by monetized impact per dollar and flowing one sortie set through them best-first (so shared flights are not double-counted); the monetization stack — hedonic property-value uplift from quieter dBA, lead $/g, and SCC.","status":"open","funding_target_usd":35000},{"slug":"pilot-pipeline","title":"Pilot pipeline: completion, churn, and the experience curve","blurb":"Cohort-flow completion, time-building churn, and the within-regional FOQA precursor study (the data only the FAA/ASIAS can run).","status":"open","funding_target_usd":75000},{"slug":"licensing-access","title":"Occupational licensing & access: the safety-pretext diagnostic","blurb":"Generalize the rent-extraction diagnostic across professions; measure the distributional incidence of entry barriers on the young.","status":"open","funding_target_usd":35000}]}