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In Bay Area, every time approaches to our three busy airports are changed there is a lot of bellyaching, mostly from rich areas like Saratoga and Woodside. Usu
by JJMcJ 6y ago
In Bay Area, every time approaches to our three busy airports are changed there is a lot of bellyaching, mostly from rich areas like Saratoga and Woodside. Usually summarized by "Why don't you fly over those places were poor people live?"
Made worse because well off areas tend to be in the hills, and so planes are lower over the ground.
- dmckeon 6y agoMuch of the recent complaining is due to concentration of near-ground routes as a side-effect of the NextGen routing system. http://soseastbay.org/jet-noise-in-a-nutshell-nexgen/ http://soseastbay.org/jet-noise-in-a-nutshell-nexgen/ https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/faqs/ https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/faqs/
- therockspush 6y agoThe sad part is NextGen was supposed to allow planes to approach at higher altitudes and descend with engines idled to reduce noise.